tracing/kprobes: Fail to unregister if probe event files are in use
authorSteven Rostedt (Red Hat) <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Thu, 4 Jul 2013 03:33:50 +0000 (23:33 -0400)
committerSteven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Thu, 1 Aug 2013 02:25:46 +0000 (22:25 -0400)
commit40c32592668b727cbfcf7b1c0567f581bd62a5e4
treeb6b96761ad2086e9635c16527a7d56ce89041802
parent2ba64035d0ca966fd189bc3e0826343fc81bf482
tracing/kprobes: Fail to unregister if probe event files are in use

When a probe is being removed, it cleans up the event files that correspond
to the probe. But there is a race between writing to one of these files
and deleting the probe. This is especially true for the "enable" file.

CPU 0 CPU 1
----- -----

  fd = open("enable",O_WRONLY);

  probes_open()
  release_all_trace_probes()
  unregister_trace_probe()
  if (trace_probe_is_enabled(tp))
return -EBUSY

   write(fd, "1", 1)
   __ftrace_set_clr_event()
   call->class->reg()
    (kprobe_register)
     enable_trace_probe(tp)

  __unregister_trace_probe(tp);
  list_del(&tp->list)
  unregister_probe_event(tp) <-- fails!
  free_trace_probe(tp)

   write(fd, "0", 1)
   __ftrace_set_clr_event()
   call->class->unreg
    (kprobe_register)
    disable_trace_probe(tp) <-- BOOM!

A test program was written that used two threads to simulate the
above scenario adding a nanosleep() interval to change the timings
and after several thousand runs, it was able to trigger this bug
and crash:

BUG: unable to handle kernel paging request at 00000005000000f9
IP: [<ffffffff810dee70>] probes_open+0x3b/0xa7
PGD 7808a067 PUD 0
Oops: 0000 [#1] PREEMPT SMP
Dumping ftrace buffer:
---------------------------------
Modules linked in: ipt_MASQUERADE sunrpc ip6t_REJECT nf_conntrack_ipv6
CPU: 1 PID: 2070 Comm: test-kprobe-rem Not tainted 3.11.0-rc3-test+ #47
Hardware name: To Be Filled By O.E.M. To Be Filled By O.E.M./To be filled by O.E.M., BIOS SDBLI944.86P 05/08/2007
task: ffff880077756440 ti: ffff880076e52000 task.ti: ffff880076e52000
RIP: 0010:[<ffffffff810dee70>]  [<ffffffff810dee70>] probes_open+0x3b/0xa7
RSP: 0018:ffff880076e53c38  EFLAGS: 00010203
RAX: 0000000500000001 RBX: ffff88007844f440 RCX: 0000000000000003
RDX: 0000000000000003 RSI: 0000000000000003 RDI: ffff880076e52000
RBP: ffff880076e53c58 R08: ffff880076e53bd8 R09: 0000000000000000
R10: ffff880077756440 R11: 0000000000000006 R12: ffffffff810dee35
R13: ffff880079250418 R14: 0000000000000000 R15: ffff88007844f450
FS:  00007f87a276f700(0000) GS:ffff88007d480000(0000) knlGS:0000000000000000
CS:  0010 DS: 0000 ES: 0000 CR0: 000000008005003b
CR2: 00000005000000f9 CR3: 0000000077262000 CR4: 00000000000007e0
Stack:
 ffff880076e53c58 ffffffff81219ea0 ffff88007844f440 ffffffff810dee35
 ffff880076e53ca8 ffffffff81130f78 ffff8800772986c0 ffff8800796f93a0
 ffffffff81d1b5d8 ffff880076e53e04 0000000000000000 ffff88007844f440
Call Trace:
 [<ffffffff81219ea0>] ? security_file_open+0x2c/0x30
 [<ffffffff810dee35>] ? unregister_trace_probe+0x4b/0x4b
 [<ffffffff81130f78>] do_dentry_open+0x162/0x226
 [<ffffffff81131186>] finish_open+0x46/0x54
 [<ffffffff8113f30b>] do_last+0x7f6/0x996
 [<ffffffff8113cc6f>] ? inode_permission+0x42/0x44
 [<ffffffff8113f6dd>] path_openat+0x232/0x496
 [<ffffffff8113fc30>] do_filp_open+0x3a/0x8a
 [<ffffffff8114ab32>] ? __alloc_fd+0x168/0x17a
 [<ffffffff81131f4e>] do_sys_open+0x70/0x102
 [<ffffffff8108f06e>] ? trace_hardirqs_on_caller+0x160/0x197
 [<ffffffff81131ffe>] SyS_open+0x1e/0x20
 [<ffffffff81522742>] system_call_fastpath+0x16/0x1b
Code: e5 41 54 53 48 89 f3 48 83 ec 10 48 23 56 78 48 39 c2 75 6c 31 f6 48 c7
RIP  [<ffffffff810dee70>] probes_open+0x3b/0xa7
 RSP <ffff880076e53c38>
CR2: 00000005000000f9
---[ end trace 35f17d68fc569897 ]---

The unregister_trace_probe() must be done first, and if it fails it must
fail the removal of the kprobe.

Several changes have already been made by Oleg Nesterov and Masami Hiramatsu
to allow moving the unregister_probe_event() before the removal of
the probe and exit the function if it fails. This prevents the tp
structure from being used after it is freed.

Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20130704034038.819592356@goodmis.org
Acked-by: Masami Hiramatsu <masami.hiramatsu.pt@hitachi.com>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
kernel/trace/trace_kprobe.c