From: Steven Rostedt rostedt@goodmis.org
The timerlat tracer can use user space threads to check for osnoise and timer latency. If the program using this is killed via a SIGTERM, the threads are shutdown one at a time and another tracing instance can start up resetting the threads before they are fully closed. That causes the hrtimer assigned to the kthread to be shutdown and freed twice when the dying thread finally closes the file descriptors, causing a use-after-free bug.
Only cancel the hrtimer if the associated thread is still around.
Note, this is just a quick fix that can be backported to stable. A real fix is to have a better synchronization between the shutdown of old threads and the starting of new ones.
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/all/20240820130001.124768-1-tglozar@redhat.com/
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org Cc: Masami Hiramatsu mhiramat@kernel.org Cc: Mathieu Desnoyers mathieu.desnoyers@efficios.com Cc: "Luis Claudio R. Goncalves" lgoncalv@redhat.com Link: https://lore.kernel.org/20240903111642.35292e70@gandalf.local.home Fixes: e88ed227f639e ("tracing/timerlat: Add user-space interface") Reported-by: Tomas Glozar tglozar@redhat.com Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (Google) rostedt@goodmis.org --- kernel/trace/trace_osnoise.c | 5 ++++- 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
diff --git a/kernel/trace/trace_osnoise.c b/kernel/trace/trace_osnoise.c index 66a871553d4a..400a72cd6ab5 100644 --- a/kernel/trace/trace_osnoise.c +++ b/kernel/trace/trace_osnoise.c @@ -265,6 +265,8 @@ static inline void tlat_var_reset(void) */ for_each_cpu(cpu, cpu_online_mask) { tlat_var = per_cpu_ptr(&per_cpu_timerlat_var, cpu); + if (tlat_var->kthread) + hrtimer_cancel(&tlat_var->timer); memset(tlat_var, 0, sizeof(*tlat_var)); } } @@ -2579,7 +2581,8 @@ static int timerlat_fd_release(struct inode *inode, struct file *file) osn_var = per_cpu_ptr(&per_cpu_osnoise_var, cpu); tlat_var = per_cpu_ptr(&per_cpu_timerlat_var, cpu);
- hrtimer_cancel(&tlat_var->timer); + if (tlat_var->kthread) + hrtimer_cancel(&tlat_var->timer); memset(tlat_var, 0, sizeof(*tlat_var));
osn_var->sampling = 0;