summaryrefslogtreecommitdiff
path: root/meta-openbmc-mods/meta-common/recipes-kernel/linux/linux-aspeed/CVE-2020-27825/0001-tracing-Fix-race-in-trace_open-and-buffer-resize-cal.patch
blob: 8313c05332f760a2caf9f31baf53e01bcb129095 (plain)
1
2
3
4
5
6
7
8
9
10
11
12
13
14
15
16
17
18
19
20
21
22
23
24
25
26
27
28
29
30
31
32
33
34
35
36
37
38
39
40
41
42
43
44
45
46
47
48
49
50
51
52
53
54
55
56
57
58
59
60
From d8fb64e4164d3f4c89eb58c27b2472a052359823 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Gaurav Kohli <gkohli@codeaurora.org>
Date: Tue, 6 Oct 2020 15:03:53 +0530
Subject: [PATCH] tracing: Fix race in trace_open and buffer resize call

Below race can come, if trace_open and resize of
cpu buffer is running parallely on different cpus
CPUX                                CPUY
				    ring_buffer_resize
				    atomic_read(&buffer->resize_disabled)
tracing_open
tracing_reset_online_cpus
ring_buffer_reset_cpu
rb_reset_cpu
				    rb_update_pages
				    remove/insert pages
resetting pointer

This race can cause data abort or some times infinte loop in
rb_remove_pages and rb_insert_pages while checking pages
for sanity.

Take buffer lock to fix this.

Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/1601976833-24377-1-git-send-email-gkohli@codeaurora.org

Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Fixes: b23d7a5f4a07a ("ring-buffer: speed up buffer resets by avoiding synchronize_rcu for each CPU")
Signed-off-by: Gaurav Kohli <gkohli@codeaurora.org>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (VMware) <rostedt@goodmis.org>
---
 kernel/trace/ring_buffer.c | 5 +++++
 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+)

diff --git a/kernel/trace/ring_buffer.c b/kernel/trace/ring_buffer.c
index 4bf050fcfe3b..6a790901270f 100644
--- a/kernel/trace/ring_buffer.c
+++ b/kernel/trace/ring_buffer.c
@@ -4406,6 +4406,9 @@ void ring_buffer_reset_cpu(struct ring_buffer *buffer, int cpu)
 	if (!cpumask_test_cpu(cpu, buffer->cpumask))
 		return;
 
+	/* prevent another thread from changing buffer sizes */
+	mutex_lock(&buffer->mutex);
+
 	atomic_inc(&buffer->resize_disabled);
 	atomic_inc(&cpu_buffer->record_disabled);
 
@@ -4428,6 +4431,8 @@ void ring_buffer_reset_cpu(struct ring_buffer *buffer, int cpu)
 
 	atomic_dec(&cpu_buffer->record_disabled);
 	atomic_dec(&buffer->resize_disabled);
+
+	mutex_unlock(&buffer->mutex);
 }
 EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(ring_buffer_reset_cpu);
 
-- 
2.17.1