[PATCH 1/7] perf/core: Add pmu get/put

Lucas De Marchi lucas.demarchi at intel.com
Mon Jul 22 21:06:42 UTC 2024


If a pmu is unregistered while there's an active event, perf will still
access the pmu via event->pmu, even after the event is destroyed. This
makes it difficult for drivers like i915 that take a reference on the
device when the event is created and put it when it's destroyed.
Currently the following use-after-free happens just after destroying the
event:

	BUG: KASAN: use-after-free in exclusive_event_destroy+0xd8/0xf0
	Read of size 4 at addr ffff88816e2bb63c by task perf/7748

Whenever and event is created, get a pmu reference to use in event->pmu
and just before calling module_put(), drop the reference..

Signed-off-by: Lucas De Marchi <lucas.demarchi at intel.com>
---
 include/linux/perf_event.h |  3 +++
 kernel/events/core.c       | 32 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++----
 2 files changed, 31 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)

diff --git a/include/linux/perf_event.h b/include/linux/perf_event.h
index a5304ae8c654..7048a505e93c 100644
--- a/include/linux/perf_event.h
+++ b/include/linux/perf_event.h
@@ -540,6 +540,9 @@ struct pmu {
 	 * Check period value for PERF_EVENT_IOC_PERIOD ioctl.
 	 */
 	int (*check_period)		(struct perf_event *event, u64 value); /* optional */
+
+	struct pmu *(*get)		(struct pmu *pmu); /* optional: get a reference */
+	void (*put)			(struct pmu *pmu); /* optional: put a reference */
 };
 
 enum perf_addr_filter_action_t {
diff --git a/kernel/events/core.c b/kernel/events/core.c
index 1b6f5dc7ed32..cc7541b644b0 100644
--- a/kernel/events/core.c
+++ b/kernel/events/core.c
@@ -5208,6 +5208,8 @@ static void perf_addr_filters_splice(struct perf_event *event,
 
 static void _free_event(struct perf_event *event)
 {
+	struct module *module;
+
 	irq_work_sync(&event->pending_irq);
 
 	unaccount_event(event);
@@ -5259,7 +5261,13 @@ static void _free_event(struct perf_event *event)
 		put_ctx(event->ctx);
 
 	exclusive_event_destroy(event);
-	module_put(event->pmu->module);
+
+	module = event->pmu->module;
+	event->pmu->put(event->pmu);
+	/* can't touch pmu anymore */
+	event->pmu = NULL;
+
+	module_put(module);
 
 	call_rcu(&event->rcu_head, free_event_rcu);
 }
@@ -11331,6 +11339,11 @@ static int perf_pmu_nop_int(struct pmu *pmu)
 	return 0;
 }
 
+static struct pmu *perf_pmu_nop_pmu(struct pmu *pmu)
+{
+	return pmu;
+}
+
 static int perf_event_nop_int(struct perf_event *event, u64 value)
 {
 	return 0;
@@ -11617,6 +11630,12 @@ int perf_pmu_register(struct pmu *pmu, const char *name, int type)
 	if (!pmu->event_idx)
 		pmu->event_idx = perf_event_idx_default;
 
+	if (!pmu->get)
+		pmu->get = perf_pmu_nop_pmu;
+
+	if (!pmu->put)
+		pmu->put = perf_pmu_nop_void;
+
 	list_add_rcu(&pmu->entry, &pmus);
 	atomic_set(&pmu->exclusive_cnt, 0);
 	ret = 0;
@@ -11695,7 +11714,8 @@ static int perf_try_init_event(struct pmu *pmu, struct perf_event *event)
 		BUG_ON(!ctx);
 	}
 
-	event->pmu = pmu;
+	event->pmu = pmu->get(pmu);
+
 	ret = pmu->event_init(event);
 
 	if (ctx)
@@ -11714,8 +11734,12 @@ static int perf_try_init_event(struct pmu *pmu, struct perf_event *event)
 			event->destroy(event);
 	}
 
-	if (ret)
-		module_put(pmu->module);
+	if (ret) {
+		struct module *module = pmu->module;
+
+		pmu->put(pmu);
+		module_put(module);
+	}
 
 	return ret;
 }
-- 
2.43.0



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