linux-kernel - Re: tracing: user events UAF crash report

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Message-ID: <20240725131632.64cab267@gandalf.local.home>
Date: Thu, 25 Jul 2024 13:16:32 -0400
From: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@...dmis.org>
To: Ajay Kaher <ajay.kaher@...adcom.com>
Cc: Mathias Krause <minipli@...ecurity.net>, Masami Hiramatsu
 <mhiramat@...nel.org>, Ilkka Naulapää
 <digirigawa@...il.com>, Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>, Al
 Viro <viro@...iv.linux.org.uk>, linux-trace-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
 linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, regressions@...mhuis.info, Dan Carpenter
 <dan.carpenter@...aro.org>, Vasavi Sirnapalli
 <vasavi.sirnapalli@...adcom.com>, Alexey Makhalov
 <alexey.makhalov@...adcom.com>, Florian Fainelli
 <florian.fainelli@...adcom.com>
Subject: Re: tracing: user events UAF crash report

On Thu, 25 Jul 2024 13:10:21 -0400
Steven Rostedt <rostedt@...dmis.org> wrote:
> 
> diff --git a/kernel/trace/trace_events_user.c b/kernel/trace/trace_events_user.c
> index 3a2b46847c8b..e9ed2826ff46 100644
> --- a/kernel/trace/trace_events_user.c
> +++ b/kernel/trace/trace_events_user.c
> @@ -321,6 +321,8 @@ static void user_event_put(struct user_event *user, bool locked)
>  	 */
>  	refcount_set(&user->refcnt, 1);
>  
> +	user->call.data = NULL;

Hmm, it may be possible to just have:

	user->call.get_fields = NULL;

and then it will just use the call->class->fields instead and that should
be initialized to empty.

-- Steve


> +
>  	if (WARN_ON_ONCE(!schedule_work(&user->put_work))) {
>  		/*
>  		 * If we fail we must wait for an admin to attempt delete or
> @@ -973,6 +975,11 @@ size_t copy_nofault(void *addr, size_t bytes, struct iov_iter *i)
>  static struct list_head *user_event_get_fields(struct trace_event_call *call)
>  {
>  	struct user_event *user = (struct user_event *)call->data;
> +	static LIST_HEAD(head);
> +
> +	/* If the user event is about to be deleted, return no fields */
> +	if (!user)
> +		return &head;
>  
>  	return &user->fields;
>  }