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Steven Rostedt (VMware) 1863c38725 tracing: Fix double free of event_trigger_data
Running the following:

 # cd /sys/kernel/debug/tracing
 # echo 500000 > buffer_size_kb
[ Or some other number that takes up most of memory ]
 # echo snapshot > events/sched/sched_switch/trigger

Triggers the following bug:

 ------------[ cut here ]------------
 kernel BUG at mm/slub.c:296!
 invalid opcode: 0000 [#1] SMP DEBUG_PAGEALLOC PTI
 CPU: 6 PID: 6878 Comm: bash Not tainted 4.18.0-rc6-test+ #1066
 Hardware name: Hewlett-Packard HP Compaq Pro 6300 SFF/339A, BIOS K01 v03.03 07/14/2016
 RIP: 0010:kfree+0x16c/0x180
 Code: 05 41 0f b6 72 51 5b 5d 41 5c 4c 89 d7 e9 ac b3 f8 ff 48 89 d9 48 89 da 41 b8 01 00 00 00 5b 5d 41 5c 4c 89 d6 e9 f4 f3 ff ff <0f> 0b 0f 0b 48 8b 3d d9 d8 f9 00 e9 c1 fe ff ff 0f 1f 40 00 0f 1f
 RSP: 0018:ffffb654436d3d88 EFLAGS: 00010246
 RAX: ffff91a9d50f3d80 RBX: ffff91a9d50f3d80 RCX: ffff91a9d50f3d80
 RDX: 00000000000006a4 RSI: ffff91a9de5a60e0 RDI: ffff91a9d9803500
 RBP: ffffffff8d267c80 R08: 00000000000260e0 R09: ffffffff8c1a56be
 R10: fffff0d404543cc0 R11: 0000000000000389 R12: ffffffff8c1a56be
 R13: ffff91a9d9930e18 R14: ffff91a98c0c2890 R15: ffffffff8d267d00
 FS:  00007f363ea64700(0000) GS:ffff91a9de580000(0000) knlGS:0000000000000000
 CS:  0010 DS: 0000 ES: 0000 CR0: 0000000080050033
 CR2: 000055c1cacc8e10 CR3: 00000000d9b46003 CR4: 00000000001606e0
 Call Trace:
  event_trigger_callback+0xee/0x1d0
  event_trigger_write+0xfc/0x1a0
  __vfs_write+0x33/0x190
  ? handle_mm_fault+0x115/0x230
  ? _cond_resched+0x16/0x40
  vfs_write+0xb0/0x190
  ksys_write+0x52/0xc0
  do_syscall_64+0x5a/0x160
  entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x49/0xbe
 RIP: 0033:0x7f363e16ab50
 Code: 73 01 c3 48 8b 0d 38 83 2c 00 f7 d8 64 89 01 48 83 c8 ff c3 66 0f 1f 44 00 00 83 3d 79 db 2c 00 00 75 10 b8 01 00 00 00 0f 05 <48> 3d 01 f0 ff ff 73 31 c3 48 83 ec 08 e8 1e e3 01 00 48 89 04 24
 RSP: 002b:00007fff9a4c6378 EFLAGS: 00000246 ORIG_RAX: 0000000000000001
 RAX: ffffffffffffffda RBX: 0000000000000009 RCX: 00007f363e16ab50
 RDX: 0000000000000009 RSI: 000055c1cacc8e10 RDI: 0000000000000001
 RBP: 000055c1cacc8e10 R08: 00007f363e435740 R09: 00007f363ea64700
 R10: 0000000000000073 R11: 0000000000000246 R12: 0000000000000009
 R13: 0000000000000001 R14: 00007f363e4345e0 R15: 00007f363e4303c0
 Modules linked in: ip6table_filter ip6_tables snd_hda_codec_hdmi snd_hda_codec_realtek snd_hda_codec_generic snd_hda_intel snd_hda_codec snd_hwdep snd_hda_core snd_seq snd_seq_device i915 snd_pcm snd_timer i2c_i801 snd soundcore i2c_algo_bit drm_kms_helper
86_pkg_temp_thermal video kvm_intel kvm irqbypass wmi e1000e
 ---[ end trace d301afa879ddfa25 ]---

The cause is because the register_snapshot_trigger() call failed to
allocate the snapshot buffer, and then called unregister_trigger()
which freed the data that was passed to it. Then on return to the
function that called register_snapshot_trigger(), as it sees it
failed to register, it frees the trigger_data again and causes
a double free.

By calling event_trigger_init() on the trigger_data (which only ups
the reference counter for it), and then event_trigger_free() afterward,
the trigger_data would not get freed by the registering trigger function
as it would only up and lower the ref count for it. If the register
trigger function fails, then the event_trigger_free() called after it
will free the trigger data normally.

Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20180724191331.738eb819@gandalf.local.home

Cc: stable@vger.kerne.org
Fixes: 93e31ffbf4 ("tracing: Add 'snapshot' event trigger command")
Reported-by: Masami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@kernel.org>
Reviewed-by: Masami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (VMware) <rostedt@goodmis.org>
2018-07-25 10:29:24 -04:00
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