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Sean Christopherson 9b45f2007e perf: Protect perf_guest_cbs with RCU
commit ff083a2d972f56bebfd82409ca62e5dfce950961 upstream.

Protect perf_guest_cbs with RCU to fix multiple possible errors.  Luckily,
all paths that read perf_guest_cbs already require RCU protection, e.g. to
protect the callback chains, so only the direct perf_guest_cbs touchpoints
need to be modified.

Bug #1 is a simple lack of WRITE_ONCE/READ_ONCE behavior to ensure
perf_guest_cbs isn't reloaded between a !NULL check and a dereference.
Fixed via the READ_ONCE() in rcu_dereference().

Bug #2 is that on weakly-ordered architectures, updates to the callbacks
themselves are not guaranteed to be visible before the pointer is made
visible to readers.  Fixed by the smp_store_release() in
rcu_assign_pointer() when the new pointer is non-NULL.

Bug #3 is that, because the callbacks are global, it's possible for
readers to run in parallel with an unregisters, and thus a module
implementing the callbacks can be unloaded while readers are in flight,
resulting in a use-after-free.  Fixed by a synchronize_rcu() call when
unregistering callbacks.

Bug #1 escaped notice because it's extremely unlikely a compiler will
reload perf_guest_cbs in this sequence.  perf_guest_cbs does get reloaded
for future derefs, e.g. for ->is_user_mode(), but the ->is_in_guest()
guard all but guarantees the consumer will win the race, e.g. to nullify
perf_guest_cbs, KVM has to completely exit the guest and teardown down
all VMs before KVM start its module unload / unregister sequence.  This
also makes it all but impossible to encounter bug #3.

Bug #2 has not been a problem because all architectures that register
callbacks are strongly ordered and/or have a static set of callbacks.

But with help, unloading kvm_intel can trigger bug #1 e.g. wrapping
perf_guest_cbs with READ_ONCE in perf_misc_flags() while spamming
kvm_intel module load/unload leads to:

  BUG: kernel NULL pointer dereference, address: 0000000000000000
  #PF: supervisor read access in kernel mode
  #PF: error_code(0x0000) - not-present page
  PGD 0 P4D 0
  Oops: 0000 [#1] PREEMPT SMP
  CPU: 6 PID: 1825 Comm: stress Not tainted 5.14.0-rc2+ #459
  Hardware name: QEMU Standard PC (Q35 + ICH9, 2009), BIOS 0.0.0 02/06/2015
  RIP: 0010:perf_misc_flags+0x1c/0x70
  Call Trace:
   perf_prepare_sample+0x53/0x6b0
   perf_event_output_forward+0x67/0x160
   __perf_event_overflow+0x52/0xf0
   handle_pmi_common+0x207/0x300
   intel_pmu_handle_irq+0xcf/0x410
   perf_event_nmi_handler+0x28/0x50
   nmi_handle+0xc7/0x260
   default_do_nmi+0x6b/0x170
   exc_nmi+0x103/0x130
   asm_exc_nmi+0x76/0xbf

Fixes: 39447b386c ("perf: Enhance perf to allow for guest statistic collection from host")
Signed-off-by: Sean Christopherson <seanjc@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org>
Reviewed-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20211111020738.2512932-2-seanjc@google.com
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
2022-01-20 09:19:18 +01:00
arch perf: Protect perf_guest_cbs with RCU 2022-01-20 09:19:18 +01:00
block block: fix ioprio_get(IOPRIO_WHO_PGRP) vs setuid(2) 2021-12-14 14:49:02 +01:00
certs certs: Trigger creation of RSA module signing key if it's not an RSA key 2021-09-15 09:47:29 +02:00
crypto crypto: pcrypt - Delay write to padata->info 2021-11-17 09:48:40 +01:00
Documentation Input: i8042 - add deferred probe support 2022-01-05 12:37:43 +01:00
drivers devtmpfs regression fix: reconfigure on each mount 2022-01-20 09:19:17 +01:00
fs vfs: fs_context: fix up param length parsing in legacy_parse_param 2022-01-20 09:19:18 +01:00
include perf: Protect perf_guest_cbs with RCU 2022-01-20 09:19:18 +01:00
init
ipc shm: extend forced shm destroy to support objects from several IPC nses 2021-12-01 09:23:35 +01:00
kernel perf: Protect perf_guest_cbs with RCU 2022-01-20 09:19:18 +01:00
lib siphash: use _unaligned version by default 2021-12-08 09:01:12 +01:00
LICENSES
mm mm: mempolicy: fix THP allocations escaping mempolicy restrictions 2021-12-29 12:23:37 +01:00
net net: udp: fix alignment problem in udp4_seq_show() 2022-01-11 15:23:33 +01:00
samples samples/kretprobes: Fix return value if register_kretprobe() failed 2021-11-17 09:48:39 +01:00
scripts recordmcount.pl: fix typo in s390 mcount regex 2022-01-05 12:37:44 +01:00
security selinux: initialize proto variable in selinux_ip_postroute_compat() 2022-01-05 12:37:44 +01:00
sound ALSA: hda/realtek: Amp init fixup for HP ZBook 15 G6 2021-12-29 12:23:36 +01:00
tools selftests: x86: fix [-Wstringop-overread] warn in test_process_vm_readv() 2022-01-11 15:23:31 +01:00
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virt KVM: do not shrink halt_poll_ns below grow_start 2021-10-09 14:39:50 +02:00
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