Re: [PATCH] perf: fix use after free of perf_trace_buf

[Steven Rostedt]

On Tue, 19 Mar 2019 17:51:00 +0530
Prateek Sood <prs...@codeaurora.org> wrote:

> SyS_perf_event_open()
>   free_event()
>     _free_event()
>       tp_perf_event_destroy()
>         perf_trace_destroy()
>           perf_trace_event_unreg() //free perf_trace_buf
> 
> trace_cpu_frequency()
>   perf_trace_cpu()
>     perf_trace_buf_alloc() //access perf_trace_buf
> 
>       CPU0                                    CPU1
> perf_trace_event_unreg()                perf_trace_cpu()
>                                       head = (event_call->perf_events)
> 

But here there's a:

  tracepoint_synchronize_unregister();

Which is suppose to prevent this. Are you saying that the
tracepoint_synchronize_unregister() is broken?

-- Steve


> free_percpu(tp_event->perf_events)
> tp_event->perf_events = NULL
> --total_ref_count
> free_percpu(perf_trace_buf[i])
> perf_trace_buf[i] = NULL
> 
>                                       raw_data = perf_trace_buf[rctx]
>                                       memset(raw_data)
> 
> A potential race exists between access of perf_trace_buf from
> perf_trace_buf_alloc() and perf_trace_event_unreg(). This can
> result in perf_trace_buf[rctx] being NULL during access from memset()
> in perf_trace_buf_alloc().
>