[PATCH 3.16 005/136] s390/runtime instrumention: fix possible memory corruption

[Ben Hutchings]

3.16.54-rc1 review patch.  If anyone has any objections, please let me know.

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From: Heiko Carstens <heiko.carstens@xxxxxxxxxx>

commit d6e646ad7cfa7034d280459b2b2546288f247144 upstream.

For PREEMPT enabled kernels the runtime instrumentation (RI) code
contains a possible use-after-free bug. If a task that makes use of RI
exits, it will execute do_exit() while still enabled for preemption.

That function will call exit_thread_runtime_instr() via
exit_thread(). If exit_thread_runtime_instr() gets preempted after the
RI control block of the task has been freed but before the pointer to
it is set to NULL, then save_ri_cb(), called from switch_to(), will
write to already freed memory.

Avoid this and simply disable preemption while freeing the control
block and setting the pointer to NULL.

Fixes: e4b8b3f33fca ("s390: add support for runtime instrumentation")
Reviewed-by: Christian Borntraeger <borntraeger@xxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Heiko Carstens <heiko.carstens@xxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@xxxxxxxxxx>
[bwh: Backported to 3.16: adjust context]
Signed-off-by: Ben Hutchings <ben@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
 arch/s390/kernel/runtime_instr.c | 4 ++--
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

--- a/arch/s390/kernel/runtime_instr.c
+++ b/arch/s390/kernel/runtime_instr.c
@@ -53,12 +53,14 @@ void exit_thread_runtime_instr(void)
 {
 	struct task_struct *task = current;
 
+	preempt_disable();
 	if (!task->thread.ri_cb)
 		return;
 	disable_runtime_instr();
 	kfree(task->thread.ri_cb);
 	task->thread.ri_signum = 0;
 	task->thread.ri_cb = NULL;
+	preempt_enable();
 }
 
 static void runtime_instr_int_handler(struct ext_code ext_code,
@@ -100,9 +102,7 @@ SYSCALL_DEFINE2(s390_runtime_instr, int,
 		return -EOPNOTSUPP;
 
 	if (command == S390_RUNTIME_INSTR_STOP) {
-		preempt_disable();
 		exit_thread_runtime_instr();
-		preempt_enable();
 		return 0;
 	}