[for-linus][PATCH 1/3] tracing/user_events: Clear copied tracing state before fork duplication

[Steven Rostedt]

From: =?UTF-8?q?J=C3=A9r=C3=A9my=20Jean?= <Jeremy.Jean@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>

dup_task_struct() copies user_event_mm from the parent into the child,
without grabbing a reference to it. user_event_mm_dup() should
replace it, but it leaves that copied pointer unmodified if
user_event_mm_alloc() fails.

When the child exits, user_event_mm_remove() decrements a reference
the child never owned, which ultimately frees user_event_mm, while
the parent still as a stale pointer to it. This creates a UAF, which
KASAN reports as:

    BUG: KASAN: slab-use-after-free in
    current_user_event_mm+0x51/0x1d0 Write of size 4 at addr
    ffff888005010d30 by task init/44

    Call Trace:
     <TASK>
     kasan_report+0xce/0x100
     kasan_check_range+0x10f/0x1e0
     current_user_event_mm+0x51/0x1d0
     user_events_ioctl+0x82e/0x15c0
     __x64_sys_ioctl+0x139/0x1c0
     do_syscall_64+0xce/0x450
     entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x77/0x7f

    Allocated by task 44:
     __kasan_kmalloc+0x8f/0xa0
     __kmalloc_cache_noprof+0x180/0x3a0
     user_event_mm_alloc+0x3c/0x1f0
     current_user_event_mm+0x88/0x1d0

    Freed by task 42:
     __kasan_slab_free+0x43/0x70
     kfree+0x13a/0x390
     process_one_work+0x696/0xf90
     worker_thread+0x420/0xba0

The fix simply clears the copied pointer before any possible failure.
In case of failure, the child then has nothing to free.

Cc: stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Fixes: 7235759084a4 ("tracing/user_events: Use remote writes for event enablement")
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260827184321.2964601-2-Jeremy.Jean@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Assisted-by: Codex:gpt-5
Signed-off-by: Jérémy Jean <Jeremy.Jean@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Reviewed-by: Bradley Morgan <brads@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@xxxxxxxxxxx>
---
 kernel/trace/trace_events_user.c | 3 +++
 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+)

diff --git a/kernel/trace/trace_events_user.c b/kernel/trace/trace_events_user.c
index 2bbc89d4a266..93cda2f6f269 100644
--- a/kernel/trace/trace_events_user.c
+++ b/kernel/trace/trace_events_user.c
@@ -868,6 +868,9 @@ void user_event_mm_dup(struct task_struct *t, struct user_event_mm *old_mm)
 	struct user_event_mm *mm = user_event_mm_alloc(t);
 	struct user_event_enabler *enabler;
 
+	/* On failure, do not free parent's copy */
+	t->user_event_mm = NULL;
+
 	if (!mm)
 		return;
 
-- 
2.53.0