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Message-ID: <7227c8d1-08f6-4f95-ad0f-d5c3e47d874d@I-love.SAKURA.ne.jp>
Date: Sat, 30 Dec 2023 01:37:04 +0900
From: Tetsuo Handa <penguin-kernel@...ove.SAKURA.ne.jp>
To: syzbot <syzbot+b1a83ab2a9eb9321fbdd@...kaller.appspotmail.com>,
        linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, syzkaller-bugs@...glegroups.com,
        Hugh Dickins <hughd@...gle.com>, Ingo Molnar <mingo@...hat.com>
Cc: tglx@...utronix.de, paskripkin@...il.com, rostedt@...dmis.org,
        glider@...gle.com, akpm@...ux-foundation.org, ebiederm@...ssion.com
Subject: Re: [syzbot] [kernel?] KMSAN: uninit-value in profile_hits (3)

[PATCH] profiling: initialize prof_cpu_mask from profile_online_cpu()

syzbot is reporting uninit-value at profile_hits(), for commit acd895795d35
("profiling: fix broken profiling regression") by error initialized
prof_cpu_mask too early.

do_profile_hits() is called from profile_tick() from timer interrupt
only if cpumask_test_cpu(smp_processor_id(), prof_cpu_mask) is true and
prof_buffer is not NULL. But the syzbot's report says that profile_hits()
was called while current thread is still doing vzalloc(buffer_bytes)
where prof_buffer is NULL at this moment. This indicates two things.

One is that cpumask_set_cpu(cpu, prof_cpu_mask) should have been called
 from profile_online_cpu() from cpuhp_setup_state() only after
profile_init() completed. Fix this by explicitly calling cpumask_copy()
 from create_proc_profile() on only UP kernels.

The other is that multiple threads concurrently tried to write to
/sys/kernel/profiling interface, which caused that somebody else tried
to re-initialize prof_buffer despite somebody has already initialized
prof_buffer. Fix this by using serialization.

Reported-by: syzbot+b1a83ab2a9eb9321fbdd@...kaller.appspotmail.com
Closes: https://syzkaller.appspot.com/bug?extid=b1a83ab2a9eb9321fbdd
Fixes: acd895795d35 ("profiling: fix broken profiling regression")
Signed-off-by: Tetsuo Handa <penguin-kernel@...ove.SAKURA.ne.jp>
---
Please test before applying this patch; I don't know how to test this functionality.

#syz test: git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git master

 kernel/ksysfs.c  | 27 ++++++++++++++++++++++-----
 kernel/profile.c |  6 +++---
 2 files changed, 25 insertions(+), 8 deletions(-)

diff --git a/kernel/ksysfs.c b/kernel/ksysfs.c
index 1d4bc493b2f4..66bc712f590c 100644
--- a/kernel/ksysfs.c
+++ b/kernel/ksysfs.c
@@ -91,10 +91,23 @@ static ssize_t profiling_store(struct kobject *kobj,
 				   struct kobj_attribute *attr,
 				   const char *buf, size_t count)
 {
+	static DEFINE_MUTEX(lock);
 	int ret;
 
-	if (prof_on)
-		return -EEXIST;
+	/*
+	 * We need serialization, for profile_setup() initializes prof_on
+	 * value. Also, use killable wait in case memory allocation from
+	 * profile_init() triggered the OOM killer and chose current thread
+	 * blocked here.
+	 */
+	if (mutex_lock_killable(&lock))
+		return -EINTR;
+
+	if (prof_on) {
+		count = -EEXIST;
+		goto out;
+	}
+
 	/*
 	 * This eventually calls into get_option() which
 	 * has a ton of callers and is not const.  It is
@@ -102,11 +115,15 @@ static ssize_t profiling_store(struct kobject *kobj,
 	 */
 	profile_setup((char *)buf);
 	ret = profile_init();
-	if (ret)
-		return ret;
+	if (ret) {
+		count = ret;
+		goto out;
+	}
 	ret = create_proc_profile();
 	if (ret)
-		return ret;
+		count = ret;
+out:
+	mutex_unlock(&lock);
 	return count;
 }
 KERNEL_ATTR_RW(profiling);
diff --git a/kernel/profile.c b/kernel/profile.c
index 8a77769bc4b4..7575747e2ac6 100644
--- a/kernel/profile.c
+++ b/kernel/profile.c
@@ -114,11 +114,9 @@ int __ref profile_init(void)
 
 	buffer_bytes = prof_len*sizeof(atomic_t);
 
-	if (!alloc_cpumask_var(&prof_cpu_mask, GFP_KERNEL))
+	if (!zalloc_cpumask_var(&prof_cpu_mask, GFP_KERNEL))
 		return -ENOMEM;
 
-	cpumask_copy(prof_cpu_mask, cpu_possible_mask);
-
 	prof_buffer = kzalloc(buffer_bytes, GFP_KERNEL|__GFP_NOWARN);
 	if (prof_buffer)
 		return 0;
@@ -481,6 +479,8 @@ int __ref create_proc_profile(void)
 		goto err_state_prep;
 	online_state = err;
 	err = 0;
+#else
+	cpumask_copy(prof_cpu_mask, cpu_possible_mask);
 #endif
 	entry = proc_create("profile", S_IWUSR | S_IRUGO,
 			    NULL, &profile_proc_ops);
-- 
2.18.4