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Yuan Chen 07926ce598 tracing: Fix race condition in kprobe initialization causing NULL pointer dereference
[ Upstream commit 9cf9aa7b0acfde7545c1a1d912576e9bab28dc6f ]

There is a critical race condition in kprobe initialization that can lead to
NULL pointer dereference and kernel crash.

[1135630.084782] Unable to handle kernel paging request at virtual address 0000710a04630000
...
[1135630.260314] pstate: 404003c9 (nZcv DAIF +PAN -UAO)
[1135630.269239] pc : kprobe_perf_func+0x30/0x260
[1135630.277643] lr : kprobe_dispatcher+0x44/0x60
[1135630.286041] sp : ffffaeff4977fa40
[1135630.293441] x29: ffffaeff4977fa40 x28: ffffaf015340e400
[1135630.302837] x27: 0000000000000000 x26: 0000000000000000
[1135630.312257] x25: ffffaf029ed108a8 x24: ffffaf015340e528
[1135630.321705] x23: ffffaeff4977fc50 x22: ffffaeff4977fc50
[1135630.331154] x21: 0000000000000000 x20: ffffaeff4977fc50
[1135630.340586] x19: ffffaf015340e400 x18: 0000000000000000
[1135630.349985] x17: 0000000000000000 x16: 0000000000000000
[1135630.359285] x15: 0000000000000000 x14: 0000000000000000
[1135630.368445] x13: 0000000000000000 x12: 0000000000000000
[1135630.377473] x11: 0000000000000000 x10: 0000000000000000
[1135630.386411] x9 : 0000000000000000 x8 : 0000000000000000
[1135630.395252] x7 : 0000000000000000 x6 : 0000000000000000
[1135630.403963] x5 : 0000000000000000 x4 : 0000000000000000
[1135630.412545] x3 : 0000710a04630000 x2 : 0000000000000006
[1135630.421021] x1 : ffffaeff4977fc50 x0 : 0000710a04630000
[1135630.429410] Call trace:
[1135630.434828]  kprobe_perf_func+0x30/0x260
[1135630.441661]  kprobe_dispatcher+0x44/0x60
[1135630.448396]  aggr_pre_handler+0x70/0xc8
[1135630.454959]  kprobe_breakpoint_handler+0x140/0x1e0
[1135630.462435]  brk_handler+0xbc/0xd8
[1135630.468437]  do_debug_exception+0x84/0x138
[1135630.475074]  el1_dbg+0x18/0x8c
[1135630.480582]  security_file_permission+0x0/0xd0
[1135630.487426]  vfs_write+0x70/0x1c0
[1135630.493059]  ksys_write+0x5c/0xc8
[1135630.498638]  __arm64_sys_write+0x24/0x30
[1135630.504821]  el0_svc_common+0x78/0x130
[1135630.510838]  el0_svc_handler+0x38/0x78
[1135630.516834]  el0_svc+0x8/0x1b0

kernel/trace/trace_kprobe.c: 1308
0xffff3df8995039ec <kprobe_perf_func+0x2c>:     ldr     x21, [x24,#120]
include/linux/compiler.h: 294
0xffff3df8995039f0 <kprobe_perf_func+0x30>:     ldr     x1, [x21,x0]

kernel/trace/trace_kprobe.c
1308: head = this_cpu_ptr(call->perf_events);
1309: if (hlist_empty(head))
1310: 	return 0;

crash> struct trace_event_call -o
struct trace_event_call {
  ...
  [120] struct hlist_head *perf_events;  //(call->perf_event)
  ...
}

crash> struct trace_event_call ffffaf015340e528
struct trace_event_call {
  ...
  perf_events = 0xffff0ad5fa89f088, //this value is correct, but x21 = 0
  ...
}

Race Condition Analysis:

The race occurs between kprobe activation and perf_events initialization:

  CPU0                                    CPU1
  ====                                    ====
  perf_kprobe_init
    perf_trace_event_init
      tp_event->perf_events = list;(1)
      tp_event->class->reg (2)← KPROBE ACTIVE
                                          Debug exception triggers
                                          ...
                                          kprobe_dispatcher
                                            kprobe_perf_func (tk->tp.flags & TP_FLAG_PROFILE)
                                              head = this_cpu_ptr(call->perf_events)(3)
                                              (perf_events is still NULL)

Problem:
1. CPU0 executes (1) assigning tp_event->perf_events = list
2. CPU0 executes (2) enabling kprobe functionality via class->reg()
3. CPU1 triggers and reaches kprobe_dispatcher
4. CPU1 checks TP_FLAG_PROFILE - condition passes (step 2 completed)
5. CPU1 calls kprobe_perf_func() and crashes at (3) because
   call->perf_events is still NULL

CPU1 sees that kprobe functionality is enabled but does not see that
perf_events has been assigned.

Add pairing read and write memory barriers to guarantee that if CPU1
sees that kprobe functionality is enabled, it must also see that
perf_events has been assigned.

Link: https://lore.kernel.org/all/20251001022025.44626-1-chenyuan_fl@163.com/

Fixes: 50d7805607 ("tracing/kprobes: Add probe handler dispatcher to support perf and ftrace concurrent use")
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Yuan Chen <chenyuan@kylinos.cn>
Signed-off-by: Masami Hiramatsu (Google) <mhiramat@kernel.org>
[ Dropped ftrace changes + context ]
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sashal@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
2025-10-29 13:59:55 +01:00
..
blktrace.c blktrace: Fix output non-blktrace event when blk_classic option enabled 2023-01-18 11:41:13 +01:00
bpf_trace.c bpf: Fix WARN() in get_bpf_raw_tp_regs 2025-06-27 11:02:46 +01:00
fgraph.c
ftrace.c ftrace: Also allocate and copy hash for reading of filter files 2025-08-28 16:21:32 +02:00
ftrace_internal.h
Kconfig
Makefile
power-traces.c
preemptirq_delay_test.c tracing: Add MODULE_DESCRIPTION() to preemptirq_delay_test 2024-07-05 09:08:25 +02:00
ring_buffer.c ring-buffer: Fix bytes_dropped calculation issue 2025-04-10 14:29:42 +02:00
ring_buffer_benchmark.c
rpm-traces.c
trace.c ftrace: Fix potential warning in trace_printk_seq during ftrace_dump 2025-09-04 14:05:53 +02:00
trace.h tracing: Have trace_event_file have ref counters 2023-11-28 16:50:22 +00:00
trace_benchmark.c
trace_benchmark.h
trace_branch.c
trace_clock.c tracing: Use atomic64_inc_return() in trace_clock_counter() 2024-12-14 19:44:53 +01:00
trace_dynevent.c tracing: Free buffers when a used dynamic event is removed 2022-12-08 11:23:04 +01:00
trace_dynevent.h
trace_entries.h
trace_event_perf.c trace/trace_event_perf: remove duplicate samples on the first tracepoint event 2024-12-14 19:44:28 +01:00
trace_events.c tracing: Add down_write(trace_event_sem) when adding trace event 2025-08-28 16:21:34 +02:00
trace_events_filter.c tracing: Have trace_event_file have ref counters 2023-11-28 16:50:22 +00:00
trace_events_filter_test.h
trace_events_hist.c tracing/histograms: Return an error if we fail to add histogram to hist_vars list 2023-07-27 08:37:45 +02:00
trace_events_trigger.c Revert "tracing/trigger: Fix to return error if failed to alloc snapshot" 2024-05-02 16:18:30 +02:00
trace_export.c
trace_functions.c
trace_functions_graph.c tracing: Fix use-after-free in print_graph_function_flags during tracer switching 2025-04-10 14:29:43 +02:00
trace_hwlat.c
trace_irqsoff.c tracing: Fix use-after-free in print_graph_function_flags during tracer switching 2025-04-10 14:29:43 +02:00
trace_kdb.c
trace_kprobe.c tracing: Fix race condition in kprobe initialization causing NULL pointer dereference 2025-10-29 13:59:55 +01:00
trace_kprobe_selftest.c
trace_kprobe_selftest.h
trace_mmiotrace.c
trace_nop.c
trace_output.c tracing: Remove precision vsnprintf() check from print event 2024-11-08 16:20:43 +01:00
trace_output.h
trace_preemptirq.c
trace_printk.c
trace_probe.c tracing: Consider the NULL character when validating the event length 2024-11-08 16:20:51 +01:00
trace_probe.h tracing: Fix race condition in kprobe initialization causing NULL pointer dereference 2025-10-29 13:59:55 +01:00
trace_probe_tmpl.h tracing/probes: Fix to update dynamic data counter if fetcharg uses it 2023-08-30 16:27:14 +02:00
trace_sched_switch.c
trace_sched_wakeup.c tracing: Fix use-after-free in print_graph_function_flags during tracer switching 2025-04-10 14:29:43 +02:00
trace_selftest.c
trace_selftest_dynamic.c
trace_seq.c
trace_stack.c
trace_stat.c
trace_stat.h
trace_syscalls.c
trace_uprobe.c tracing: Fix race condition in kprobe initialization causing NULL pointer dereference 2025-10-29 13:59:55 +01:00
tracing_map.c tracing: Fix cmp_entries_dup() to respect sort() comparison rules 2024-12-14 19:44:48 +01:00
tracing_map.h