From 4f5359685af6de7dca101393dc606620adbe963f Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Lai Jiangshan Date: Mon, 18 May 2009 19:35:34 +0800 Subject: tracing: add trace_event_read_lock() I found that there is nothing to protect event_hash in ftrace_find_event(). Rcu protects the event hashlist but not the event itself while we use it after its extraction through ftrace_find_event(). This lack of a proper locking in this spot opens a race window between any event dereferencing and module removal. Eg: --Task A-- print_trace_line(trace) { event = find_ftrace_event(trace) --Task B-- trace_module_remove_events(mod) { list_trace_events_module(ev, mod) { unregister_ftrace_event(ev->event) { hlist_del(ev->event->node) list_del(....) } } } |--> module removed, the event has been dropped --Task A-- event->print(trace); // Dereferencing freed memory If the event retrieved belongs to a module and this module is concurrently removed, we may end up dereferencing a data from a freed module. RCU could solve this, but it would add latency to the kernel and forbid tracers output callbacks to call any sleepable code. So this fix converts 'trace_event_mutex' to a read/write semaphore, and adds trace_event_read_lock() to protect ftrace_find_event(). [ Impact: fix possible freed memory dereference in ftrace ] Signed-off-by: Lai Jiangshan Acked-by: Steven Rostedt LKML-Reference: <4A114806.7090302@cn.fujitsu.com> Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker --- kernel/trace/trace.c | 8 ++++++++ 1 file changed, 8 insertions(+) (limited to 'kernel/trace/trace.c') diff --git a/kernel/trace/trace.c b/kernel/trace/trace.c index dd40d2320346..02d32baa23ac 100644 --- a/kernel/trace/trace.c +++ b/kernel/trace/trace.c @@ -1569,12 +1569,14 @@ static void *s_start(struct seq_file *m, loff_t *pos) p = s_next(m, p, &l); } + trace_event_read_lock(); return p; } static void s_stop(struct seq_file *m, void *p) { atomic_dec(&trace_record_cmdline_disabled); + trace_event_read_unlock(); } static void print_lat_help_header(struct seq_file *m) @@ -1817,6 +1819,7 @@ static int trace_empty(struct trace_iterator *iter) return 1; } +/* Called with trace_event_read_lock() held. */ static enum print_line_t print_trace_line(struct trace_iterator *iter) { enum print_line_t ret; @@ -3008,6 +3011,7 @@ waitagain: offsetof(struct trace_iterator, seq)); iter->pos = -1; + trace_event_read_lock(); while (find_next_entry_inc(iter) != NULL) { enum print_line_t ret; int len = iter->seq.len; @@ -3024,6 +3028,7 @@ waitagain: if (iter->seq.len >= cnt) break; } + trace_event_read_unlock(); /* Now copy what we have to the user */ sret = trace_seq_to_user(&iter->seq, ubuf, cnt); @@ -3146,6 +3151,8 @@ static ssize_t tracing_splice_read_pipe(struct file *filp, goto out_err; } + trace_event_read_lock(); + /* Fill as many pages as possible. */ for (i = 0, rem = len; i < PIPE_BUFFERS && rem; i++) { pages[i] = alloc_page(GFP_KERNEL); @@ -3168,6 +3175,7 @@ static ssize_t tracing_splice_read_pipe(struct file *filp, trace_seq_init(&iter->seq); } + trace_event_read_unlock(); mutex_unlock(&iter->mutex); spd.nr_pages = i; -- cgit v1.2.3