Re: use-after-free in __perf_install_in_context

[Peter Zijlstra]

On Fri, Dec 04, 2015 at 09:04:35PM +0100, Dmitry Vyukov wrote:
> ==================================================================
> BUG: KASAN: use-after-free in __lock_acquire+0x4e99/0x5100 at addr
> ffff880038706e60
> Read of size 8 by task syzkaller_execu/6513
> =============================================================================
> BUG kmalloc-1024 (Not tainted): kasan: bad access detected
> -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
> 
> Disabling lock debugging due to kernel taint
> INFO: Allocated in alloc_perf_context+0x4c/0x100 age=263 cpu=1 pid=6428
> [<     inline     >] kzalloc include/linux/slab.h:602
> [<      none      >] alloc_perf_context+0x4c/0x100 kernel/events/core.c:3399
> [<      none      >] find_get_context+0x187/0x830 kernel/events/core.c:3506
> [<      none      >] SYSC_perf_event_open+0xe50/0x21a0 kernel/events/core.c:8375
> [<      none      >] SyS_perf_event_open+0x39/0x50 kernel/events/core.c:8236
> [<      none      >] tracesys_phase2+0x88/0x8d arch/x86/entry/entry_64.S:269
> 
> INFO: Freed in free_ctx+0x4b/0x70 age=174 cpu=2 pid=8105
> [<      none      >] kfree+0x26f/0x3e0 mm/slub.c:3632
> [<      none      >] free_ctx+0x4b/0x70 kernel/events/core.c:872
> [<     inline     >] __rcu_reclaim kernel/rcu/rcu.h:118
> [<     inline     >] rcu_do_batch kernel/rcu/tree.c:2693
> [<     inline     >] invoke_rcu_callbacks kernel/rcu/tree.c:2961
> [<     inline     >] __rcu_process_callbacks kernel/rcu/tree.c:2928
> [<      none      >] rcu_process_callbacks+0x631/0x19e0 kernel/rcu/tree.c:2945
> [<      none      >] __do_softirq+0x2e5/0xb40 kernel/softirq.c:273
> [<     inline     >] invoke_softirq kernel/softirq.c:350
> [<      none      >] irq_exit+0x165/0x1e0 kernel/softirq.c:391
> [<     inline     >] exiting_irq ./arch/x86/include/asm/apic.h:653
> [<      none      >] smp_apic_timer_interrupt+0x88/0xc0
> arch/x86/kernel/apic/apic.c:926
> [<      none      >] apic_timer_interrupt+0x87/0x90
> arch/x86/entry/entry_64.S:678

So it would be _awesome_ if we could somehow extend this callchain to
include the site that calls call_rcu().

In any case, this looks like we got the refcounting wrong some place,
I'll go audit that stuff.
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