perf: Fix event leak upon exec and file release
authorFrederic Weisbecker <frederic@kernel.org>
Fri, 21 Jun 2024 09:16:01 +0000 (11:16 +0200)
committerPeter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Tue, 9 Jul 2024 11:26:33 +0000 (13:26 +0200)
commit3a5465418f5fd970e86a86c7f4075be262682840
tree35a2ddb008461f70052eb1361f0cfa577bae7586
parent2fd5ad3f310de22836cdacae919dd99d758a1f1b
perf: Fix event leak upon exec and file release

The perf pending task work is never waited upon the matching event
release. In the case of a child event, released via free_event()
directly, this can potentially result in a leaked event, such as in the
following scenario that doesn't even require a weak IRQ work
implementation to trigger:

schedule()
   prepare_task_switch()
=======> <NMI>
      perf_event_overflow()
         event->pending_sigtrap = ...
         irq_work_queue(&event->pending_irq)
<======= </NMI>
      perf_event_task_sched_out()
          event_sched_out()
              event->pending_sigtrap = 0;
              atomic_long_inc_not_zero(&event->refcount)
              task_work_add(&event->pending_task)
   finish_lock_switch()
=======> <IRQ>
   perf_pending_irq()
      //do nothing, rely on pending task work
<======= </IRQ>

begin_new_exec()
   perf_event_exit_task()
      perf_event_exit_event()
         // If is child event
         free_event()
            WARN(atomic_long_cmpxchg(&event->refcount, 1, 0) != 1)
            // event is leaked

Similar scenarios can also happen with perf_event_remove_on_exec() or
simply against concurrent perf_event_release().

Fix this with synchonizing against the possibly remaining pending task
work while freeing the event, just like is done with remaining pending
IRQ work. This means that the pending task callback neither need nor
should hold a reference to the event, preventing it from ever beeing
freed.

Fixes: 517e6a301f34 ("perf: Fix perf_pending_task() UaF")
Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <frederic@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20240621091601.18227-5-frederic@kernel.org
include/linux/perf_event.h
kernel/events/core.c