linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] perf: Fix missing SIGTRAPs

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Message-ID: <Yz/zXpF1yLshrJm/@elver.google.com>
Date:   Fri, 7 Oct 2022 11:37:34 +0200
From:   Marco Elver <elver@...gle.com>
To:     Peter Zijlstra <peterz@...radead.org>
Cc:     Ingo Molnar <mingo@...hat.com>,
        Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@...nel.org>,
        Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@....com>,
        Alexander Shishkin <alexander.shishkin@...ux.intel.com>,
        Jiri Olsa <jolsa@...nel.org>,
        Namhyung Kim <namhyung@...nel.org>,
        linux-perf-users@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
        kasan-dev@...glegroups.com, Dmitry Vyukov <dvyukov@...gle.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] perf: Fix missing SIGTRAPs

On Thu, Oct 06, 2022 at 06:02PM +0200, Peter Zijlstra wrote:

> This can happen if we get two consecutive event_sched_out() and both
> instances will have pending_sigtrap set. This can happen when the event
> that has sigtrap set also triggers in kernel space.
> 
> You then get task_work list corruption and *boom*.
> 
> I'm thinking the below might be the simplest solution; we can only send
> a single signal after all.

That worked. In addition I had to disable the ctx->task != current check
if we're in task_work, because presumably the event might have already
been disabled/moved??

At least with all the below fixups, things seem to work (tests +
light fuzzing).

Thanks,
-- Marco

------ >8 ------

diff --git a/kernel/events/core.c b/kernel/events/core.c
index 9319af6013f1..29ed6e58906b 100644
--- a/kernel/events/core.c
+++ b/kernel/events/core.c
@@ -2285,9 +2285,10 @@ event_sched_out(struct perf_event *event,
 			 */
 			local_dec(&event->ctx->nr_pending);
 		} else {
-			WARN_ON_ONCE(event->pending_work);
-			event->pending_work = 1;
-			task_work_add(current, &event->pending_task, TWA_RESUME);
+			if (!event->pending_work) {
+				event->pending_work = 1;
+				task_work_add(current, &event->pending_task, TWA_RESUME);
+			}
 		}
 	}
 
@@ -6455,18 +6456,19 @@ void perf_event_wakeup(struct perf_event *event)
 	}
 }
 
-static void perf_sigtrap(struct perf_event *event)
+static void perf_sigtrap(struct perf_event *event, bool in_task_work)
 {
 	/*
 	 * We'd expect this to only occur if the irq_work is delayed and either
 	 * ctx->task or current has changed in the meantime. This can be the
 	 * case on architectures that do not implement arch_irq_work_raise().
 	 */
-	if (WARN_ON_ONCE(event->ctx->task != current))
+	if (WARN_ON_ONCE(!in_task_work && event->ctx->task != current))
 		return;
 
 	/*
-	 * perf_pending_irq() can race with the task exiting.
+	 * Both perf_pending_task() and perf_pending_irq() can race with the
+	 * task exiting.
 	 */
 	if (current->flags & PF_EXITING)
 		return;
@@ -6496,7 +6498,7 @@ static void __perf_pending_irq(struct perf_event *event)
 		if (event->pending_sigtrap) {
 			event->pending_sigtrap = 0;
 			local_dec(&event->ctx->nr_pending);
-			perf_sigtrap(event);
+			perf_sigtrap(event, false);
 		}
 		if (event->pending_disable) {
 			event->pending_disable = 0;
@@ -6563,16 +6565,18 @@ static void perf_pending_task(struct callback_head *head)
 	 * If we 'fail' here, that's OK, it means recursion is already disabled
 	 * and we won't recurse 'further'.
 	 */
+	preempt_disable_notrace();
 	rctx = perf_swevent_get_recursion_context();
 
 	if (event->pending_work) {
 		event->pending_work = 0;
 		local_dec(&event->ctx->nr_pending);
-		perf_sigtrap(event);
+		perf_sigtrap(event, true);
 	}
 
 	if (rctx >= 0)
 		perf_swevent_put_recursion_context(rctx);
+	preempt_enable_notrace();
 }
 
 #ifdef CONFIG_GUEST_PERF_EVENTS