Re: [PATCH v2 perf/core] perf script: fix a use after free crash.

From: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo
Date: Mon Jan 02 2017 - 12:36:37 EST


Em Mon, Jan 02, 2017 at 12:15:14PM -0300, Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo escreveu:
> Tried it again with what is in Linus' tree + your patch and got the same
> problem:
>
> [acme@jouet linux]$ git remote -v | grep torvalds.*fetch
> torvalds git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git (fetch)
> [acme@jouet linux]$ git checkout -b test-branch torvalds/master
> Branch test-branch set up to track remote branch master from torvalds.
> Switched to a new branch 'test-branch'
> [acme@jouet linux]$ git cherry-pick f7347a33099dbad7e9fb3c22cea211f238bfd320
> [test-branch 7d786f548b62] perf callchain: Fix a use after free crash due to refcounting bug
> Author: Krister Johansen <kjlx@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Date: Mon Jan 2 12:06:55 2017 -0300
> 3 files changed, 19 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
> [acme@jouet linux]$ rm -rf /tmp/build/perf/ ; mkdir -p /tmp/build/perf ; make O=/tmp/build/perf -C tools/perf install-bin
> make: Entering directory '/home/acme/git/linux/tools/perf'
> BUILD: Doing 'make -j4' parallel build
> HOSTCC /tmp/build/perf/fixdep.o
> <SNIP>
>
> Then I run it with a higher frequency and no delay in refreshing the screen, to
> stress the refcounting code:
>
> # perf top -F 10000 -g -d 0
>
> Do it while running something like 'make -j32 allmodconfig' to create lots of
> short lived processes (or use stress-ng, etc).

Back to acme/perf/core and with debugging, we're getting a refcount hitting zero
while the map is still in a rbtree:

perf: util/map.c:246: map__exit: Assertion `!(!((&map->rb_node)->__rb_parent_color == (unsigned long)(&map->rb_node)))' failed.

Thread 1 "perf" received signal SIGABRT, Aborted.
0x00007ffff522691f in raise () from /lib64/libc.so.6
(gdb) bt
#0 0x00007ffff522691f in raise () from /lib64/libc.so.6
#1 0x00007ffff522851a in abort () from /lib64/libc.so.6
#2 0x00007ffff521eda7 in __assert_fail_base () from /lib64/libc.so.6
#3 0x00007ffff521ee52 in __assert_fail () from /lib64/libc.so.6
#4 0x0000000000504e57 in map__exit (map=0x2393790) at util/map.c:246
#5 0x0000000000504ea5 in map__delete (map=0x2393790) at util/map.c:252
#6 0x0000000000504f0a in map__put (map=0x2393790) at util/map.c:259
#7 0x000000000052fa01 in __map__zput (map=0x7fffffff8230) at util/map.h:161
#8 0x000000000053295b in iter_finish_cumulative_entry (iter=0x7fffffff8260, al=0x7fffffff8220) at util/hist.c:983
#9 0x0000000000532b53 in hist_entry_iter__add (iter=0x7fffffff8260, al=0x7fffffff8220, max_stack_depth=127, arg=0x7fffffffa7b0) at util/hist.c:1059
#10 0x000000000044f5cf in perf_event__process_sample (tool=0x7fffffffa7b0, event=0x7ffff7e24578, evsel=0x21515d0, sample=0x7fffffff8410, machine=0x21b2bf8)
at builtin-top.c:774
#11 0x000000000044f8ee in perf_top__mmap_read_idx (top=0x7fffffffa7b0, idx=2) at builtin-top.c:840
#12 0x000000000044fa0d in perf_top__mmap_read (top=0x7fffffffa7b0) at builtin-top.c:857
#13 0x0000000000450080 in __cmd_top (top=0x7fffffffa7b0) at builtin-top.c:1002
#14 0x00000000004514e0 in cmd_top (argc=0, argv=0x7fffffffe130, prefix=0x0) at builtin-top.c:1330
#15 0x00000000004b5af5 in run_builtin (p=0xa0baf8 <commands+312>, argc=6, argv=0x7fffffffe130) at perf.c:358
#16 0x00000000004b5d62 in handle_internal_command (argc=6, argv=0x7fffffffe130) at perf.c:420
#17 0x00000000004b5ea7 in run_argv (argcp=0x7fffffffdf8c, argv=0x7fffffffdf80) at perf.c:466
#18 0x00000000004b6290 in main (argc=6, argv=0x7fffffffe130) at perf.c:610
(gdb) fr 4
#4 0x0000000000504e57 in map__exit (map=0x2393790) at util/map.c:246
246 BUG_ON(!RB_EMPTY_NODE(&map->rb_node));
(gdb) p map
$1 = (struct map *) 0x2393790
(gdb) p *map
$2 = {{rb_node = {__rb_parent_color = 37304353, rb_right = 0x0, rb_left = 0x0}, node = {next = 0x2393821, prev = 0x0}}, start = 140434683187200,
end = 140434690723840, type = 0 '\000', erange_warned = false, priv = 0, prot = 5, flags = 2, pgoff = 0, reloc = 0, maj = 253, min = 0, ino = 132875,
ino_generation = 3472328296227680304, map_ip = 0x504125 <map__map_ip>, unmap_ip = 0x504174 <map__unmap_ip>, dso = 0x22b3890, groups = 0x2385290, refcnt = {
counter = 0}}
(gdb)