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Naveen N. Rao 7bd46644ea ftrace: Fix NULL pointer dereference in t_probe_next()
LTP testsuite on powerpc results in the below crash:

  Unable to handle kernel paging request for data at address 0x00000000
  Faulting instruction address: 0xc00000000029d800
  Oops: Kernel access of bad area, sig: 11 [#1]
  LE SMP NR_CPUS=2048 NUMA PowerNV
  ...
  CPU: 68 PID: 96584 Comm: cat Kdump: loaded Tainted: G        W
  NIP:  c00000000029d800 LR: c00000000029dac4 CTR: c0000000001e6ad0
  REGS: c0002017fae8ba10 TRAP: 0300   Tainted: G        W
  MSR:  9000000000009033 <SF,HV,EE,ME,IR,DR,RI,LE>  CR: 28022422  XER: 20040000
  CFAR: c00000000029d90c DAR: 0000000000000000 DSISR: 40000000 IRQMASK: 0
  ...
  NIP [c00000000029d800] t_probe_next+0x60/0x180
  LR [c00000000029dac4] t_mod_start+0x1a4/0x1f0
  Call Trace:
  [c0002017fae8bc90] [c000000000cdbc40] _cond_resched+0x10/0xb0 (unreliable)
  [c0002017fae8bce0] [c0000000002a15b0] t_start+0xf0/0x1c0
  [c0002017fae8bd30] [c0000000004ec2b4] seq_read+0x184/0x640
  [c0002017fae8bdd0] [c0000000004a57bc] sys_read+0x10c/0x300
  [c0002017fae8be30] [c00000000000b388] system_call+0x5c/0x70

The test (ftrace_set_ftrace_filter.sh) is part of ftrace stress tests
and the crash happens when the test does 'cat
$TRACING_PATH/set_ftrace_filter'.

The address points to the second line below, in t_probe_next(), where
filter_hash is dereferenced:
  hash = iter->probe->ops.func_hash->filter_hash;
  size = 1 << hash->size_bits;

This happens due to a race with register_ftrace_function_probe(). A new
ftrace_func_probe is created and added into the func_probes list in
trace_array under ftrace_lock. However, before initializing the filter,
we drop ftrace_lock, and re-acquire it after acquiring regex_lock. If
another process is trying to read set_ftrace_filter, it will be able to
acquire ftrace_lock during this window and it will end up seeing a NULL
filter_hash.

Fix this by just checking for a NULL filter_hash in t_probe_next(). If
the filter_hash is NULL, then this probe is just being added and we can
simply return from here.

Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/05e021f757625cbbb006fad41380323dbe4e3b43.1562249521.git.naveen.n.rao@linux.vnet.ibm.com

Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Fixes: 7b60f3d876 ("ftrace: Dynamically create the probe ftrace_ops for the trace_array")
Signed-off-by: Naveen N. Rao <naveen.n.rao@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (VMware) <rostedt@goodmis.org>
2019-08-30 16:23:47 -04:00
arch This pull request contains a single bug fix for UML: 2019-08-25 11:40:24 -07:00
block block: remove REQ_NOWAIT_INLINE 2019-08-15 11:09:16 -06:00
certs Revert "Merge tag 'keys-acl-20190703' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/dhowells/linux-fs" 2019-07-10 18:43:43 -07:00
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drivers A minor auxdisplay improvement: 2019-08-25 11:43:17 -07:00
fs This pull request contains the following fixes for UBIFS and JFFS2: 2019-08-25 11:29:27 -07:00
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ipc Merge branch 'work.mount0' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/vfs 2019-07-19 10:42:02 -07:00
kernel ftrace: Fix NULL pointer dereference in t_probe_next() 2019-08-30 16:23:47 -04:00
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samples auxdisplay: Fix a typo in cfag12864b-example.c 2019-08-08 20:00:18 +02:00
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usr kbuild: enable arch/s390/include/uapi/asm/zcrypt.h for uapi header test 2019-07-23 10:45:46 +02:00
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