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Add netlink command support #186

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mjmartineau opened this issue Apr 29, 2021 · 6 comments
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Add netlink command support #186

mjmartineau opened this issue Apr 29, 2021 · 6 comments
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To allow userspace path management, both the netlink path managment events (b911c97) and commands are required. Right now, mptcpd can receive events but not control which subflows are opened or closed. The command API should match what was implemented in mptcp_trunk.

This requires:

  • Make each socket configurable for either in-kernel or userspace path management (or only configure per-namespace?)
  • Configure default path management type (in-kernel or userspace), per namespace
  • Bypass the in-kernel path manager for userspace-managed sockets
  • Parse and validate netlink commands
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The mptcp_trunk command types needed for this are:
MPTCP_CMD_ANNOUNCE = 4,
MPTCP_CMD_REMOVE = 5,
MPTCP_CMD_SUB_CREATE = 8,
MPTCP_CMD_SUB_DESTROY = 9,

Unfortunately, ANNOUNCE/REMOVE conflict with
MPTCP_PM_CMD_FLUSH_ADDRS and MPTCP_PM_CMD_SET_LIMITS.
CREATE/DESTROY work because those index numbers are still available.

One way would be to overload these two and make their behaviour dependant on the
presented attributes. But that just brings us to the next problem:
MPTCP_ATTR_TOKEN (first supported attribute) collides with
MPTCP_PM_ATTR_ADDR. IOW, we can't even add the required netlink policies for them
(they don't have any at the moment, they are only used to send events, not to receive commands).

So, as far as i can see that leaves three options:

  1. make a different API, using new MPTCP_PM_CMD_ANNOUNCE and so on, and add new attributes
  2. make a new genl subsystem for mptcp
  3. break both ABI and API, unify everyhing and bump MPTCP_PM_VER.
    I think 1 is the only realistic option though. 2) appears rather arkward due to duplication and 3 is only mentioned for completeness.

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@fw-strlen: Any thoughts on "option 4": keep the symbolic command names and attributes, and use different index numbers for everything upstream.

I had been thinking we were not concerned about binary compatibility with the fork, just reusing the API design.

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Maybe my option 4 is what @fw-strlen was saying with option 1, other than the exact names - so a chance that we're in agreement there

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@fw-strlen: Any thoughts on "option 4": keep the symbolic command names and attributes, and use different index numbers for everything upstream.

Would create failing/oddly-acting binary in ase package is built with the 'wrong' headers.
If thats okay, then sure, this could be done.

I had been thinking we were not concerned about binary compatibility with the fork, just reusing the API design.

I thought it was cleaner to re-do everything, the API would look pretty similar though.

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matttbe commented Sep 30, 2021

@mjmartineau raised a point at the last meeting: for ADD_ADDR, we need to handle ECHO ones

  • for the moment, we only handle the retransmission of one ADD_ADDR:
    • either we have a new events to tell the userspace when to send the next one (when the echo has been received)
    • or the userspace is in charge of the retransmissions
    • or we keep a list of ADD_ADDR to retransmit (can be done as a second step)
  • We decided to let the kernel managing that: no need to add a new event for that
  • (if needed, managing a list of ADD_ADDR can be done later)

jenkins-tessares pushed a commit that referenced this issue Feb 18, 2022
When using the flushoncommit mount option, during almost every transaction
commit we trigger a warning from __writeback_inodes_sb_nr():

  $ cat fs/fs-writeback.c:
  (...)
  static void __writeback_inodes_sb_nr(struct super_block *sb, ...
  {
        (...)
        WARN_ON(!rwsem_is_locked(&sb->s_umount));
        (...)
  }
  (...)

The trace produced in dmesg looks like the following:

  [947.473890] WARNING: CPU: 5 PID: 930 at fs/fs-writeback.c:2610 __writeback_inodes_sb_nr+0x7e/0xb3
  [947.481623] Modules linked in: nfsd nls_cp437 cifs asn1_decoder cifs_arc4 fscache cifs_md4 ipmi_ssif
  [947.489571] CPU: 5 PID: 930 Comm: btrfs-transacti Not tainted 95.16.3-srb-asrock-00001-g36437ad63879 #186
  [947.497969] RIP: 0010:__writeback_inodes_sb_nr+0x7e/0xb3
  [947.502097] Code: 24 10 4c 89 44 24 18 c6 (...)
  [947.519760] RSP: 0018:ffffc90000777e10 EFLAGS: 00010246
  [947.523818] RAX: 0000000000000000 RBX: 0000000000963300 RCX: 0000000000000000
  [947.529765] RDX: 0000000000000000 RSI: 000000000000fa51 RDI: ffffc90000777e50
  [947.535740] RBP: ffff888101628a90 R08: ffff888100955800 R09: ffff888100956000
  [947.541701] R10: 0000000000000002 R11: 0000000000000001 R12: ffff888100963488
  [947.547645] R13: ffff888100963000 R14: ffff888112fb7200 R15: ffff888100963460
  [947.553621] FS:  0000000000000000(0000) GS:ffff88841fd40000(0000) knlGS:0000000000000000
  [947.560537] CS:  0010 DS: 0000 ES: 0000 CR0: 0000000080050033
  [947.565122] CR2: 0000000008be50c4 CR3: 000000000220c000 CR4: 00000000001006e0
  [947.571072] Call Trace:
  [947.572354]  <TASK>
  [947.573266]  btrfs_commit_transaction+0x1f1/0x998
  [947.576785]  ? start_transaction+0x3ab/0x44e
  [947.579867]  ? schedule_timeout+0x8a/0xdd
  [947.582716]  transaction_kthread+0xe9/0x156
  [947.585721]  ? btrfs_cleanup_transaction.isra.0+0x407/0x407
  [947.590104]  kthread+0x131/0x139
  [947.592168]  ? set_kthread_struct+0x32/0x32
  [947.595174]  ret_from_fork+0x22/0x30
  [947.597561]  </TASK>
  [947.598553] ---[ end trace 644721052755541c ]---

This is because we started using writeback_inodes_sb() to flush delalloc
when committing a transaction (when using -o flushoncommit), in order to
avoid deadlocks with filesystem freeze operations. This change was made
by commit ce8ea7c ("btrfs: don't call btrfs_start_delalloc_roots
in flushoncommit"). After that change we started producing that warning,
and every now and then a user reports this since the warning happens too
often, it spams dmesg/syslog, and a user is unsure if this reflects any
problem that might compromise the filesystem's reliability.

We can not just lock the sb->s_umount semaphore before calling
writeback_inodes_sb(), because that would at least deadlock with
filesystem freezing, since at fs/super.c:freeze_super() sync_filesystem()
is called while we are holding that semaphore in write mode, and that can
trigger a transaction commit, resulting in a deadlock. It would also
trigger the same type of deadlock in the unmount path. Possibly, it could
also introduce some other locking dependencies that lockdep would report.

To fix this call try_to_writeback_inodes_sb() instead of
writeback_inodes_sb(), because that will try to read lock sb->s_umount
and then will only call writeback_inodes_sb() if it was able to lock it.
This is fine because the cases where it can't read lock sb->s_umount
are during a filesystem unmount or during a filesystem freeze - in those
cases sb->s_umount is write locked and sync_filesystem() is called, which
calls writeback_inodes_sb(). In other words, in all cases where we can't
take a read lock on sb->s_umount, writeback is already being triggered
elsewhere.

An alternative would be to call btrfs_start_delalloc_roots() with a
number of pages different from LONG_MAX, for example matching the number
of delalloc bytes we currently have, in which case we would end up
starting all delalloc with filemap_fdatawrite_wbc() and not with an
async flush via filemap_flush() - that is only possible after the rather
recent commit e076ab2 ("btrfs: shrink delalloc pages instead of
full inodes"). However that creates a whole new can of worms due to new
lock dependencies, which lockdep complains, like for example:

[ 8948.247280] ======================================================
[ 8948.247823] WARNING: possible circular locking dependency detected
[ 8948.248353] 5.17.0-rc1-btrfs-next-111 #1 Not tainted
[ 8948.248786] ------------------------------------------------------
[ 8948.249320] kworker/u16:18/933570 is trying to acquire lock:
[ 8948.249812] ffff9b3de1591690 (sb_internal#2){.+.+}-{0:0}, at: find_free_extent+0x141e/0x1590 [btrfs]
[ 8948.250638]
               but task is already holding lock:
[ 8948.251140] ffff9b3e09c717d8 (&root->delalloc_mutex){+.+.}-{3:3}, at: start_delalloc_inodes+0x78/0x400 [btrfs]
[ 8948.252018]
               which lock already depends on the new lock.

[ 8948.252710]
               the existing dependency chain (in reverse order) is:
[ 8948.253343]
               -> #2 (&root->delalloc_mutex){+.+.}-{3:3}:
[ 8948.253950]        __mutex_lock+0x90/0x900
[ 8948.254354]        start_delalloc_inodes+0x78/0x400 [btrfs]
[ 8948.254859]        btrfs_start_delalloc_roots+0x194/0x2a0 [btrfs]
[ 8948.255408]        btrfs_commit_transaction+0x32f/0xc00 [btrfs]
[ 8948.255942]        btrfs_mksubvol+0x380/0x570 [btrfs]
[ 8948.256406]        btrfs_mksnapshot+0x81/0xb0 [btrfs]
[ 8948.256870]        __btrfs_ioctl_snap_create+0x17f/0x190 [btrfs]
[ 8948.257413]        btrfs_ioctl_snap_create_v2+0xbb/0x140 [btrfs]
[ 8948.257961]        btrfs_ioctl+0x1196/0x3630 [btrfs]
[ 8948.258418]        __x64_sys_ioctl+0x83/0xb0
[ 8948.258793]        do_syscall_64+0x3b/0xc0
[ 8948.259146]        entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x44/0xae
[ 8948.259709]
               -> #1 (&fs_info->delalloc_root_mutex){+.+.}-{3:3}:
[ 8948.260330]        __mutex_lock+0x90/0x900
[ 8948.260692]        btrfs_start_delalloc_roots+0x97/0x2a0 [btrfs]
[ 8948.261234]        btrfs_commit_transaction+0x32f/0xc00 [btrfs]
[ 8948.261766]        btrfs_set_free_space_cache_v1_active+0x38/0x60 [btrfs]
[ 8948.262379]        btrfs_start_pre_rw_mount+0x119/0x180 [btrfs]
[ 8948.262909]        open_ctree+0x1511/0x171e [btrfs]
[ 8948.263359]        btrfs_mount_root.cold+0x12/0xde [btrfs]
[ 8948.263863]        legacy_get_tree+0x30/0x50
[ 8948.264242]        vfs_get_tree+0x28/0xc0
[ 8948.264594]        vfs_kern_mount.part.0+0x71/0xb0
[ 8948.265017]        btrfs_mount+0x11d/0x3a0 [btrfs]
[ 8948.265462]        legacy_get_tree+0x30/0x50
[ 8948.265851]        vfs_get_tree+0x28/0xc0
[ 8948.266203]        path_mount+0x2d4/0xbe0
[ 8948.266554]        __x64_sys_mount+0x103/0x140
[ 8948.266940]        do_syscall_64+0x3b/0xc0
[ 8948.267300]        entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x44/0xae
[ 8948.267790]
               -> #0 (sb_internal#2){.+.+}-{0:0}:
[ 8948.268322]        __lock_acquire+0x12e8/0x2260
[ 8948.268733]        lock_acquire+0xd7/0x310
[ 8948.269092]        start_transaction+0x44c/0x6e0 [btrfs]
[ 8948.269591]        find_free_extent+0x141e/0x1590 [btrfs]
[ 8948.270087]        btrfs_reserve_extent+0x14b/0x280 [btrfs]
[ 8948.270588]        cow_file_range+0x17e/0x490 [btrfs]
[ 8948.271051]        btrfs_run_delalloc_range+0x345/0x7a0 [btrfs]
[ 8948.271586]        writepage_delalloc+0xb5/0x170 [btrfs]
[ 8948.272071]        __extent_writepage+0x156/0x3c0 [btrfs]
[ 8948.272579]        extent_write_cache_pages+0x263/0x460 [btrfs]
[ 8948.273113]        extent_writepages+0x76/0x130 [btrfs]
[ 8948.273573]        do_writepages+0xd2/0x1c0
[ 8948.273942]        filemap_fdatawrite_wbc+0x68/0x90
[ 8948.274371]        start_delalloc_inodes+0x17f/0x400 [btrfs]
[ 8948.274876]        btrfs_start_delalloc_roots+0x194/0x2a0 [btrfs]
[ 8948.275417]        flush_space+0x1f2/0x630 [btrfs]
[ 8948.275863]        btrfs_async_reclaim_data_space+0x108/0x1b0 [btrfs]
[ 8948.276438]        process_one_work+0x252/0x5a0
[ 8948.276829]        worker_thread+0x55/0x3b0
[ 8948.277189]        kthread+0xf2/0x120
[ 8948.277506]        ret_from_fork+0x22/0x30
[ 8948.277868]
               other info that might help us debug this:

[ 8948.278548] Chain exists of:
                 sb_internal#2 --> &fs_info->delalloc_root_mutex --> &root->delalloc_mutex

[ 8948.279601]  Possible unsafe locking scenario:

[ 8948.280102]        CPU0                    CPU1
[ 8948.280508]        ----                    ----
[ 8948.280915]   lock(&root->delalloc_mutex);
[ 8948.281271]                                lock(&fs_info->delalloc_root_mutex);
[ 8948.281915]                                lock(&root->delalloc_mutex);
[ 8948.282487]   lock(sb_internal#2);
[ 8948.282800]
                *** DEADLOCK ***

[ 8948.283333] 4 locks held by kworker/u16:18/933570:
[ 8948.283750]  #0: ffff9b3dc00a9d48 ((wq_completion)events_unbound){+.+.}-{0:0}, at: process_one_work+0x1d2/0x5a0
[ 8948.284609]  #1: ffffa90349dafe70 ((work_completion)(&fs_info->async_data_reclaim_work)){+.+.}-{0:0}, at: process_one_work+0x1d2/0x5a0
[ 8948.285637]  #2: ffff9b3e14db5040 (&fs_info->delalloc_root_mutex){+.+.}-{3:3}, at: btrfs_start_delalloc_roots+0x97/0x2a0 [btrfs]
[ 8948.286674]  #3: ffff9b3e09c717d8 (&root->delalloc_mutex){+.+.}-{3:3}, at: start_delalloc_inodes+0x78/0x400 [btrfs]
[ 8948.287596]
              stack backtrace:
[ 8948.287975] CPU: 3 PID: 933570 Comm: kworker/u16:18 Not tainted 5.17.0-rc1-btrfs-next-111 #1
[ 8948.288677] Hardware name: QEMU Standard PC (i440FX + PIIX, 1996), BIOS rel-1.14.0-0-g155821a1990b-prebuilt.qemu.org 04/01/2014
[ 8948.289649] Workqueue: events_unbound btrfs_async_reclaim_data_space [btrfs]
[ 8948.290298] Call Trace:
[ 8948.290517]  <TASK>
[ 8948.290700]  dump_stack_lvl+0x59/0x73
[ 8948.291026]  check_noncircular+0xf3/0x110
[ 8948.291375]  ? start_transaction+0x228/0x6e0 [btrfs]
[ 8948.291826]  __lock_acquire+0x12e8/0x2260
[ 8948.292241]  lock_acquire+0xd7/0x310
[ 8948.292714]  ? find_free_extent+0x141e/0x1590 [btrfs]
[ 8948.293241]  ? lock_is_held_type+0xea/0x140
[ 8948.293601]  start_transaction+0x44c/0x6e0 [btrfs]
[ 8948.294055]  ? find_free_extent+0x141e/0x1590 [btrfs]
[ 8948.294518]  find_free_extent+0x141e/0x1590 [btrfs]
[ 8948.294957]  ? _raw_spin_unlock+0x29/0x40
[ 8948.295312]  ? btrfs_get_alloc_profile+0x124/0x290 [btrfs]
[ 8948.295813]  btrfs_reserve_extent+0x14b/0x280 [btrfs]
[ 8948.296270]  cow_file_range+0x17e/0x490 [btrfs]
[ 8948.296691]  btrfs_run_delalloc_range+0x345/0x7a0 [btrfs]
[ 8948.297175]  ? find_lock_delalloc_range+0x247/0x270 [btrfs]
[ 8948.297678]  writepage_delalloc+0xb5/0x170 [btrfs]
[ 8948.298123]  __extent_writepage+0x156/0x3c0 [btrfs]
[ 8948.298570]  extent_write_cache_pages+0x263/0x460 [btrfs]
[ 8948.299061]  extent_writepages+0x76/0x130 [btrfs]
[ 8948.299495]  do_writepages+0xd2/0x1c0
[ 8948.299817]  ? sched_clock_cpu+0xd/0x110
[ 8948.300160]  ? lock_release+0x155/0x4a0
[ 8948.300494]  filemap_fdatawrite_wbc+0x68/0x90
[ 8948.300874]  ? do_raw_spin_unlock+0x4b/0xa0
[ 8948.301243]  start_delalloc_inodes+0x17f/0x400 [btrfs]
[ 8948.301706]  ? lock_release+0x155/0x4a0
[ 8948.302055]  btrfs_start_delalloc_roots+0x194/0x2a0 [btrfs]
[ 8948.302564]  flush_space+0x1f2/0x630 [btrfs]
[ 8948.302970]  btrfs_async_reclaim_data_space+0x108/0x1b0 [btrfs]
[ 8948.303510]  process_one_work+0x252/0x5a0
[ 8948.303860]  ? process_one_work+0x5a0/0x5a0
[ 8948.304221]  worker_thread+0x55/0x3b0
[ 8948.304543]  ? process_one_work+0x5a0/0x5a0
[ 8948.304904]  kthread+0xf2/0x120
[ 8948.305184]  ? kthread_complete_and_exit+0x20/0x20
[ 8948.305598]  ret_from_fork+0x22/0x30
[ 8948.305921]  </TASK>

It all comes from the fact that btrfs_start_delalloc_roots() takes the
delalloc_root_mutex, in the transaction commit path we are holding a
read lock on one of the superblock's freeze semaphores (via
sb_start_intwrite()), the async reclaim task can also do a call to
btrfs_start_delalloc_roots(), which ends up triggering writeback with
calls to filemap_fdatawrite_wbc(), resulting in extent allocation which
in turn can call btrfs_start_transaction(), which will result in taking
the freeze semaphore via sb_start_intwrite(), forming a nasty dependency
on all those locks which can be taken in different orders by different
code paths.

So just adopt the simple approach of calling try_to_writeback_inodes_sb()
at btrfs_start_delalloc_flush().

Link: https://lore.kernel.org/linux-btrfs/[email protected]/
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/linux-btrfs/[email protected]/
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/linux-btrfs/[email protected]/
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/linux-btrfs/[email protected]/
Reviewed-by: Omar Sandoval <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Filipe Manana <[email protected]>
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Signed-off-by: David Sterba <[email protected]>
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matttbe commented Apr 21, 2022

Can be closed now thanks to @kmaloor patches:

New patches for t/upstream:

  • c2dcdba: mptcp: allow ADD_ADDR reissuance by userspace PMs
  • 26c7144: mptcp: handle local addrs announced by userspace PMs
  • 5a86508: mptcp: read attributes of addr entries managed by userspace PMs
  • 899ec4b: mptcp: netlink: split mptcp_pm_parse_addr into two functions
  • 37d4d52: mptcp: netlink: Add MPTCP_PM_CMD_ANNOUNCE
  • 90e75a0: selftests: mptcp: support MPTCP_PM_CMD_ANNOUNCE
  • 151abf9: mptcp: netlink: Add MPTCP_PM_CMD_REMOVE
  • 961b8d0: selftests: mptcp: support MPTCP_PM_CMD_REMOVE
  • 68f1048: mptcp: netlink: allow userspace-driven subflow establishment
  • 04de6ee: selftests: mptcp: support MPTCP_PM_CMD_SUBFLOW_CREATE
  • 337354c: selftests: mptcp: support MPTCP_PM_CMD_SUBFLOW_DESTROY
  • feac5b7: selftests: mptcp: capture netlink events
  • 802a0fc: selftests: mptcp: create listeners to receive MPJs
  • 7a58979: selftests: mptcp: functional tests for the userspace PM type
  • Results: dd31cb3..f0428db (export)

And an extra fix for the CI:

  • 6505be1: Squash to "mptcp: handle local addrs announced by userspace PMs"
  • (no co-dev for that)
  • 66af7c7: mptcp: remove dup mptcp_pm_addr_entry
  • c14d95c: conflict in t/mptcp-netlink-allow-userspace-driven-subflow-establishment
  • Results: f0428db..4fa4540 (export)

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jenkins-tessares pushed a commit that referenced this issue Nov 10, 2023
The following can crash the kernel:

 # cd /sys/kernel/tracing
 # echo 'p:sched schedule' > kprobe_events
 # exec 5>>events/kprobes/sched/enable
 # > kprobe_events
 # exec 5>&-

The above commands:

 1. Change directory to the tracefs directory
 2. Create a kprobe event (doesn't matter what one)
 3. Open bash file descriptor 5 on the enable file of the kprobe event
 4. Delete the kprobe event (removes the files too)
 5. Close the bash file descriptor 5

The above causes a crash!

 BUG: kernel NULL pointer dereference, address: 0000000000000028
 #PF: supervisor read access in kernel mode
 #PF: error_code(0x0000) - not-present page
 PGD 0 P4D 0
 Oops: 0000 [#1] PREEMPT SMP PTI
 CPU: 6 PID: 877 Comm: bash Not tainted 6.5.0-rc4-test-00008-g2c6b6b1029d4-dirty #186
 Hardware name: QEMU Standard PC (Q35 + ICH9, 2009), BIOS 1.16.2-debian-1.16.2-1 04/01/2014
 RIP: 0010:tracing_release_file_tr+0xc/0x50

What happens here is that the kprobe event creates a trace_event_file
"file" descriptor that represents the file in tracefs to the event. It
maintains state of the event (is it enabled for the given instance?).
Opening the "enable" file gets a reference to the event "file" descriptor
via the open file descriptor. When the kprobe event is deleted, the file is
also deleted from the tracefs system which also frees the event "file"
descriptor.

But as the tracefs file is still opened by user space, it will not be
totally removed until the final dput() is called on it. But this is not
true with the event "file" descriptor that is already freed. If the user
does a write to or simply closes the file descriptor it will reference the
event "file" descriptor that was just freed, causing a use-after-free bug.

To solve this, add a ref count to the event "file" descriptor as well as a
new flag called "FREED". The "file" will not be freed until the last
reference is released. But the FREE flag will be set when the event is
removed to prevent any more modifications to that event from happening,
even if there's still a reference to the event "file" descriptor.

Link: https://lore.kernel.org/linux-trace-kernel/[email protected]/
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/linux-trace-kernel/[email protected]

Cc: [email protected]
Cc: Mark Rutland <[email protected]>
Fixes: f5ca233 ("tracing: Increase trace array ref count on enable and filter files")
Reported-by: Beau Belgrave <[email protected]>
Tested-by: Beau Belgrave <[email protected]>
Reviewed-by: Masami Hiramatsu (Google) <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (Google) <[email protected]>
cpaasch pushed a commit that referenced this issue Dec 4, 2023
commit bb32500 upstream.

The following can crash the kernel:

 # cd /sys/kernel/tracing
 # echo 'p:sched schedule' > kprobe_events
 # exec 5>>events/kprobes/sched/enable
 # > kprobe_events
 # exec 5>&-

The above commands:

 1. Change directory to the tracefs directory
 2. Create a kprobe event (doesn't matter what one)
 3. Open bash file descriptor 5 on the enable file of the kprobe event
 4. Delete the kprobe event (removes the files too)
 5. Close the bash file descriptor 5

The above causes a crash!

 BUG: kernel NULL pointer dereference, address: 0000000000000028
 #PF: supervisor read access in kernel mode
 #PF: error_code(0x0000) - not-present page
 PGD 0 P4D 0
 Oops: 0000 [#1] PREEMPT SMP PTI
 CPU: 6 PID: 877 Comm: bash Not tainted 6.5.0-rc4-test-00008-g2c6b6b1029d4-dirty #186
 Hardware name: QEMU Standard PC (Q35 + ICH9, 2009), BIOS 1.16.2-debian-1.16.2-1 04/01/2014
 RIP: 0010:tracing_release_file_tr+0xc/0x50

What happens here is that the kprobe event creates a trace_event_file
"file" descriptor that represents the file in tracefs to the event. It
maintains state of the event (is it enabled for the given instance?).
Opening the "enable" file gets a reference to the event "file" descriptor
via the open file descriptor. When the kprobe event is deleted, the file is
also deleted from the tracefs system which also frees the event "file"
descriptor.

But as the tracefs file is still opened by user space, it will not be
totally removed until the final dput() is called on it. But this is not
true with the event "file" descriptor that is already freed. If the user
does a write to or simply closes the file descriptor it will reference the
event "file" descriptor that was just freed, causing a use-after-free bug.

To solve this, add a ref count to the event "file" descriptor as well as a
new flag called "FREED". The "file" will not be freed until the last
reference is released. But the FREE flag will be set when the event is
removed to prevent any more modifications to that event from happening,
even if there's still a reference to the event "file" descriptor.

Link: https://lore.kernel.org/linux-trace-kernel/[email protected]/
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/linux-trace-kernel/[email protected]

Cc: [email protected]
Cc: Mark Rutland <[email protected]>
Fixes: f5ca233 ("tracing: Increase trace array ref count on enable and filter files")
Reported-by: Beau Belgrave <[email protected]>
Tested-by: Beau Belgrave <[email protected]>
Reviewed-by: Masami Hiramatsu (Google) <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (Google) <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <[email protected]>
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