Pull cgroup fixes from Tejun Heo:
- A cpuset that never set its memory nodes could divide by zero when a
task's mempolicy rebinds on CPU hotplug. Rebind against the effective
nodes, which are always populated
- Documentation fixes for memory.stat, io.stat, and the misc and v1
RDMA controllers
* tag 'cgroup-for-7.2-rc3-fixes' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tj/cgroup:
Docs/admin-guide/cgroup-v2: note blkcg_debug_stats gates io.latency stats
Docs/admin-guide/cgroup-v1: document rdma.peak, rdma.events and rdma.events.local
Docs/admin-guide/cgroup-v2: drop stale misc interface file count
cgroup/cpuset: rebind mm mempolicy to effective_mems, not mems_allowed
Docs/admin-guide/cgroup-v2: fix memory.stat doc details
Pull sched_ext fixes from Tejun Heo:
- Lifecycle fixes for the new sub-scheduler support: two
use-after-frees and an enable-failure path that left a
half-initialized sub-scheduler linked.
- Two dispatch-path locking bugs: a spurious scheduler abort from a
migration race, and a lockdep splat from stale runqueue-lock
tracking.
- Callback and task-state fixes: stale scheduler-owned state on a task
leaving SCX, a weight callback running after disable, and a bogus
warning on core-scheduling forced idle.
- On nohz_full, finite-slice tasks could miss the tick that expires
their slice. Enable it when such a task is picked, with a selftest.
- Smaller fixes: userspace CPU-mask helpers, ratelimited deprecation
warnings, docs and a sparse annotation.
* tag 'sched_ext-for-7.2-rc3-fixes' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tj/sched_ext:
sched_ext: Skip ops.set_weight() for disabled tasks
tools/sched_ext: scx - Fix cmask_subset(), cmask_equal() and cmask_weight()
sched_ext: Fix premature ops->priv publication in scx_alloc_and_add_sched()
sched_ext: Record an error on errno-only sub-enable failure
selftests/sched_ext: Verify nohz_full tick behavior
sched_ext: Enable tick for finite slices on nohz_full
sched_ext: Preserve rq tracking across local DSQ dispatch
sched_ext: Documentation: Fix ops table header reference
sched_ext: Don't warn on core-sched forced idle in put_prev_task_scx()
sched_ext: Pin parent scx_sched across a child sub-scheduler's lifetime
sched_ext: Annotate ksyncs with __rcu in alloc/free_kick_syncs()
sched_ext: Check remote rq eligibility under task's rq lock
sched_ext: Reset dsq_vtime and slice when a task leaves SCX
sched_ext: Avoid flooding the log with deprecation warnings
Pull tracing fixes from Steven Rostedt:
- Free field in error path of synthetic event parse
In __create_synth_event() the field was allocated but was not freed
in the error path
- Fix ring_buffer_event_length() on 8 byte aligned architectures
On architectures with CONFIG_HAVE_64BIT_ALIGNED_ACCESS set to y, the
ring_buffer_event_length() may return the wrong size. This is because
archs with that config set will always use the "big event meta
header" as that is 8 bytes keeping the payload 8 bytes aligned, even
when a 4 byte header could hold the size of the event
But ring_buffer_event_length() doesn't take this into account and
only subtracts 4 bytes for the meta header in the length when it
should have subtracted 8 bytes
- Have osnoise wait for a full rcu synchronization on unregister
osnoise_unregister_instance() used to call synchronize_rcu() before
freeing its copy of the instance but was switched to kfree_rcu(). The
osniose tracer has code that traverses the instances that it uses,
and inst is just a pointer to that instance. By using kfree_rcu()
instead of synchronize_rcu(), the instance that the inst pointer is
pointing to can be freed while the osnoise code is still referencing
it
That is, a rmdir on an instance first unregisters the tracer. When
the unregister finishes, the rmdir expects that the tracer is
finished with the instance that it is using. By putting back the
synchronize_rcu() in osnoise_unregister_instance() the unregistering
of osnoise will now return when all the users of the instance have
finished
- Remove an unused setting of "ret" in tracing_set_tracer()
- Fix ring_buffer_read_page() copying events
The commit that changed ring_buffer_read_page() to show dropped
events from the buffer itself, split the "commit" variable between
the commit value (with flags) and "size" that holds the size of the
sub-buffer. A cut and paste error changed the test of the reading
from checking the size of the buffer to the size of the event causing
reads to only read one event at a time
- Make tracepoint_printk a static variable
When the tracing sysctl knobs were move from sysctl.c to trace.c, the
variable tracepoint_printk no longer needed to be global. Make it
static
- Fix some typos
- Fix NULL pointer dereference in func_set_flag()
The flags update of the function tracer first checks if the value of
the flag is the same and exits if they are, and then it checks if the
current tracer is the function tracer and exits if it isn't. The
problem is that these checks need to be in a reversed order, as if
the tracer isn't the function tracer, then the flag being checked may
not exist. Reverse the order of these checks
- Fix ufs core trace events to not dereference a pointer in TP_printk()
The TP_printk() part of the TRACE_EVENT() macro is called when the
user reads the "trace" file. This can be seconds, minutes, hours,
days, weeks, and even months after the data was recorded into the
ring buffer. Thus, saving a pointer to an object into the ring buffer
and then dereferencing it from TP_printk() can cause harm as the
object the pointer is pointing to may no longer exist
Fix all the trace events in ufs core to save the device name in the
ring buffer instead of dereferencing the device descriptor from
TP_printk()
- Prevent out-of-bound reads in glob matching of trace events
The filter logic of events allows simple glob logic to add wild cards
to filter on strings. But some events have fields that may not have a
terminating 'nul' character. This may cause the glob matching to go
beyond the string. Change the logic to always pass in the length of
the field that is being matched
- Add no-rcu-check version of trace_##event##_enabled()
The trace_##event##_enabled() usually wraps trace events to do extra
work that is only needed when the trace event is enabled. But this
can hide events that are placed in locations where RCU is not
watching, and can make lockdep not see these bugs when the event is
not enabled
The trace_##event##_enabled() was updated to always test to make sure
RCU is watching to catch locations that may call events without RCU
being active
This caused a false positive for the irq_disabled() and related
events. As that use trace_irq_disabled_enabled() to force RCU to be
watching when the event is enabled via the ct_irq_enter() function,
calls the event, and then calls ct_irq_exit() to put RCU back to its
original state
The trace_irq_disabled_enabled() should not trigger a warning when
RCU is not watching because the code within its block handles the
case properly. Make a __trace_##event##_enabled() version for this
event to use that doesn't check RCU is watching as it handles the
case when it isn't
- Fix use-after-free in user_event_mm_dup()
When the enabler is removed from the link list, it is freed
immediately. But it is protected via RCU and needs to be freed after
an RCU grace period. Use queue_rcu_work() so that the event_mutex can
also be taken as user_event_put() takes the mutex on the last
reference is released
- Free type string in error path of parse_synth_field()
There's an error path in parse_synth_field() where the allocated type
string is not freed
- Add selftest that tests deferred event teardown
- Fix leak in error path of trace_remote_alloc_buffer()
If page allocation fails, the desc->nr_cpus is not incremented for
the current CPU and the allocations done for it are not freed
- Fix allocation length in trace_remote_alloc_buffer()
The logic to calculate the struct_len was doing a double count and
setting the value too large. Calculate the size upfront to fix the
error and simplify the logic
- Fix sparse CPU masks in ring_buffer_desc()
If there are sparse CPUs (gaps in the numbering), the
ring_buffer_desc() will fail as it tests the CPU number against the
number of CPUs that are used
* tag 'trace-v7.2-rc2' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/trace/linux-trace:
ring-buffer: Allow sparse CPU masks in ring_buffer_desc()
tracing/remotes: Fix struct_len in trace_remote_alloc_buffer()
tracing/remotes: Fix leak in trace_remote_alloc_buffer() error path
selftests/user_events: Wait for deferred event teardown after unregister
tracing/synthetic: Free type string on error path
tracing/user_events: Fix use-after-free in user_event_mm_dup()
tracing: Add a no-rcu-check version of trace_##event##_enabled()
tracing: Prevent out-of-bounds read in glob matching
ufs: core: tracing: Do not dereference pointers in TP_printk()
tracing: Fix NULL pointer dereference in func_set_flag()
samples: ftrace: Fix typos in benchmark comment
tracing: Make tracepoint_printk static as not exported
ring-buffer: Fix ring_buffer_read_page() copying only one event per page
tracing: Remove unused ret assignment in tracing_set_tracer()
tracing/osnoise: Call synchronize_rcu() when unregistering
ring-buffer: Fix event length with forced 8-byte alignment
tracing/synthetic: Free pending field on error path
Pull perf events fixes from Ingo Molnar:
- Fix SVM #GP on AMD CPUs that LBR but not BRS (Sandipan Das)
- Fix UAF bug in the perf AUX code (Lee Jia Jie)
- Fix address leakage in the AMD LBR code (Sandipan Das)
- Fix address leakage in the AMD BRS code (Sandipan Das)
* tag 'perf-urgent-2026-07-11' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip:
perf/x86/amd/brs: Fix kernel address leakage
perf/x86/amd/lbr: Fix kernel address leakage
perf/aux: Fix page UAF in map_range()
perf/x86/amd/core: Avoid enabling BRS from the SVM reload path
Pull timer fix from Ingo Molnar:
- Fix a subtle posix-cpu-timers vs. exec() race, which
unearthed other races in the area (Thomas Gleixner)
* tag 'timers-urgent-2026-07-11' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip:
posix-cpu-timers: Prevent UAF caused by non-leader exec() race
Pull audit fixes from Paul Moore:
"Two relatively small audit patches to fix potential data races with
the main audit backlog queue as well as possible integer overflows
when logging data as hex strings"
* tag 'audit-pr-20260710' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/pcmoore/audit:
audit: fix potential integer overflow in audit_log_n_hex()
audit: Fix data races of skb_queue_len() readers on audit_queue
If page allocation fails in trace_remote_alloc_buffer(), desc->nr_cpus
is not yet incremented for the current CPU. As a consequence, on error,
half-allocated rb_desc will not be freed in trace_remote_free_buffer().
Increment desc->nr_cpus as soon as the first allocation for the current
CPU has succeeded.
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260709160017.1729517-2-vdonnefort@google.com
Fixes: 96e43537af ("tracing: Introduce trace remotes")
Reported-by: Sashiko <sashiko-bot@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Vincent Donnefort <vdonnefort@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
When switching a task's sched_class away from sched_ext, we get the
following sequence of events in __sched_setscheduler():
sched_change_begin()
switched_from_scx()
scx_disable_task(p)
ops.disable(p)
__setscheduler_params()
set_load_weight()
reweight_task_scx(p)
ops.set_weight(p)
p->sched_class = next_class;
sched_change_end()
...
Notably, ops.set_weight() is called _after_ ops.disable().
This violates the expected semantics of the callbacks, the expectation
being that ops.disable() can only be followed by ops.exit_task() or
ops.enable().
Skipping the weight adjustment for disabled tasks should be harmless
since the weight will be recalculated in scx_enable_task() if the task
ever rejoins SCX.
Fixes: 637b068282 ("sched: Fold sched_class::switch{ing,ed}_{to,from}() into the change pattern")
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org # v6.19+
Signed-off-by: Kuba Piecuch <jpiecuch@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
map_range() reads rb->aux_pages[], rb->aux_nr_pages and rb->aux_pgoff via
perf_mmap_to_page() while holding only event->mmap_mutex. Those fields are
serialized by rb->aux_mutex, and mmap_mutex is per event.
Thus, two events sharing one rb via PERF_EVENT_IOC_SET_OUTPUT can race
rb_alloc_aux() with map_range(), leading to a page-UAF scenario as follows:
CPU 0 CPU 1
===== =====
rb_alloc_aux() map_range()
[1]: allocate rb->aux_pages[0]
[2]: rb->aux_nr_pages++
[3]: perf_mmap_to_page()
returns rb->aux_pages[0]
[4]: map it as VM_PFNMAP
[5]: rb->aux_pgoff = 1
munmap the page
[6]: free rb->aux_pages[0]
Pages mapped as VM_PFNMAP have no refcount protection, so CPU 1 holds a
mapping to a freed physical frame.
Fix this by taking rb->aux_mutex across the page walk in map_range().
Fixes: b709eb872e ("perf: map pages in advance")
Signed-off-by: Lee Jia Jie <jiajie.lee@starlabs.sg>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
Cc: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org>
scx_alloc_and_add_sched() publishes @sch through ops->priv before allocating
the cgroup path. If that allocation fails, the unwind path clears ops->priv
and frees @sch immediately. scx_prog_sched() callers can dereference
ops->priv from RCU context the moment it is set, so freeing without a grace
period can use-after-free a concurrent kfunc caller.
Move the publication below the cgroup path allocation so that every failure
path after publication frees @sch through kobject_put(), whose release path
defers the freeing by a grace period.
Fixes: 105dcd005b ("sched_ext: Introduce scx_prog_sched()")
Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Reviewed-by: Andrea Righi <arighi@nvidia.com>
scx_sub_enable_workfn() has several failure paths that only return an errno
(e.g. -ENOMEM from an allocation) and jump to err_disable without calling
scx_error(). scx_flush_disable_work() runs the disable, and thus ops.exit(),
only when an error has been recorded, so an errno-only failure leaves the
half-initialized sub-scheduler linked.
Record an error at the err_disable sink so every errno-only failure runs the
disable path.
Fixes: ebeca1f930 ("sched_ext: Introduce cgroup sub-sched support")
Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Reviewed-by: Andrea Righi <arighi@nvidia.com>
set_next_task_scx() updates the tick dependency before __schedule()
updates rq->curr. When switching from a non-EXT task, such as idle, to
an EXT task with a finite slice, sched_update_tick_dependency() checks
the outgoing task and can allow the tick to remain stopped.
The dependency can also be lost without a slice-type transition. After a
finite-slice task leaves the CPU idle, the enqueue path can clear the
dependency against the idle rq->curr. SCX_RQ_CAN_STOP_TICK still records
a finite slice, so another finite task skips the transition block and
can run without the ticks needed to expire its slice.
The reverse mismatch can also happen when the last finite-slice EXT task
is dequeued: sub_nr_running() updates the dependency before rq->curr
changes, so the outgoing task state can keep the dependency set after
the CPU goes idle.
Fix this by unconditionally enabling the scheduler tick whenever a
finite-slice EXT task is selected on a nohz_full CPU. Moreover, when the
last runnable EXT task leaves, ignore the outgoing EXT slice state so
the generic scheduler can correctly re-evaluate and clear the tick
dependency.
Fixes: 22a920209a ("sched_ext: Implement tickless support")
Signed-off-by: Andrea Righi <arighi@nvidia.com>
Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
The function calculates new_len as len << 1 for hex encoding. This
has two overflow risks: the shift itself can overflow when len is
large, and the result can be truncated when assigned to new_len
(declared as int) from the size_t calculation.
Fix by using check_shl_overflow() to catch shift overflow and
changing new_len and loop counter i to size_t to prevent truncation.
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Fixes: 168b717395 ("AUDIT: Clean up logging of untrusted strings")
Reviewed-by: Richard Guy Briggs <rgb@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Ricardo Robaina <rrobaina@redhat.com>
[PM: remove vertical whitspace noise]
Signed-off-by: Paul Moore <paul@paul-moore.com>
dispatch_to_local_dsq() can run from scx_bpf_dsq_move_to_local() while
ops.dispatch() has recorded the current rq. Moving a task to a local DSQ
may switch to the source or destination rq before synchronously invoking
ops.dequeue() through the following path:
SCX_CALL_OP(dispatch, rq)
ops.dispatch()
scx_bpf_dsq_move_to_local()
scx_flush_dispatch_buf()
finish_dispatch()
dispatch_to_local_dsq()
scx_dispatch_enqueue()
local_dsq_post_enq()
call_task_dequeue()
SCX_CALL_OP_TASK(dequeue, locked_rq, ...)
The nested callback saves the recorded rq and restores it on return. If
the rq tracking does not follow the lock switch, update_locked_rq() can
trigger the following lockdep assertion while restoring an rq which is
no longer held:
WARNING: kernel/sched/sched.h:1641 at call_task_dequeue+0x160/0x170
Call Trace:
scx_dispatch_enqueue+0x2b0/0x460
dispatch_to_local_dsq+0x138/0x230
scx_flush_dispatch_buf+0x1af/0x220
scx_bpf_dsq_move_to_local___v2+0xe2/0x1c0
bpf__sched_ext_ops_dispatch+0x4b/0xa7
do_pick_task_scx+0x3b6/0x910
__pick_next_task+0x105/0x1f0
__schedule+0x3e7/0x1980
Introduce switch_rq_lock() to update the tracking state together with
each rq lock handoff. Use it in dispatch_to_local_dsq(),
move_remote_task_to_local_dsq() and the in-balance paths of
scx_dsq_move(), ensuring that scx_locked_rq() consistently refers to the
rq whose lock is actually held throughout the lock dance.
Fixes: 7fb39e4eb4 ("sched_ext: Save and restore scx_locked_rq across SCX_CALL_OP")
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org # 7.1+
Signed-off-by: Andrea Righi <arighi@nvidia.com>
Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
user_event_mm_dup() walks the parent mm's enabler list locklessly under
rcu_read_lock() during fork() (from copy_process()); it does not take
event_mutex:
rcu_read_lock();
list_for_each_entry_rcu(enabler, &old_mm->enablers, mm_enablers_link)
enabler->event = user_event_get(orig->event);
user_event_enabler_destroy() removes an enabler from that list with
list_del_rcu() and then, without waiting for a grace period, drops the
enabler's user_event reference with user_event_put() and frees the enabler
with kfree(). A reader that loaded the enabler before the list_del_rcu()
can still be walking it, which leads to two use-after-frees:
- kfree(enabler) frees the enabler while that reader dereferences
enabler->event.
- user_event_put() may drop the last reference to the user_event, which
is then freed (via delayed_destroy_user_event() on a work queue), while
the same reader does user_event_get(orig->event) on it.
Both are reachable by an unprivileged task that can open user_events_data:
one multithreaded process that registers an enabler and then concurrently
unregisters it and calls fork() triggers the race. KASAN reports a
slab-use-after-free in user_event_mm_dup() during clone(), with a
"refcount_t: addition on 0" warning when the user_event is freed.
The enabler use-after-free was found first; the user_event one was reported
by XIAO WU, and the earlier enabler-only fix did not address it.
Defer both the user_event_put() and the kfree(enabler) to a work item
queued with queue_rcu_work(), so they run only after an RCU grace period,
once all readers walking the enabler list have finished. The put must run
in process context because user_event_put() takes event_mutex on the last
reference, so a work queue is used rather than call_rcu(). The now-unlocked
put lets the locked argument of user_event_enabler_destroy() be removed;
all callers are updated.
Fixes: 7235759084 ("tracing/user_events: Use remote writes for event enablement")
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260707165912.2560537-2-michael.bommarito@gmail.com
Reported-by: XIAO WU <xiaowu.417@qq.com>
Closes: https://lore.kernel.org/all/tencent_89647CE40DC452B891C65C94D1B271DE8E07@qq.com/
Suggested-by: Beau Belgrave <beaub@linux.microsoft.com>
Assisted-by: Claude:claude-opus-4-8
Signed-off-by: Michael Bommarito <michael.bommarito@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Tracepoints require that RCU is watching. To prevent them from being used
in places that RCU is not watching, the trace_##event() macro always
calls rcu_is_watching() even when the event is not enabled and warns if
RCU is not watching. This is to make sure a warning is triggered even if
the tracepoint is never enabled (as it is only a bug when it is).
It was noticed that tracepoints could be hidden within
trace_#event#_enabled() calls, which are used to do extra work for the
tracepoint only if the tracepoint is enabled. But this also can hide the
fact that a tracepoint is placed in a location that can be called when RCU
is not watching.
Commit 9764e731ef ("tracepoint: Add lockdep rcu_is_watching() check to
trace_##name##_enabled()") added a check to the trace_##event##_enabled()
macro to make sure RCU is watching when it is called to make sure not to
hide the bug of a tracepoint being called when RCU is not watching.
There is one case in the irq_disable tracepoint where it is within a
trace_irq_disable_enabled() block, but it checks if RCU is watching, and
if it isn't, it makes a call to ct_irq_enter() that makes RCU watch again.
But because trace_irq_disable_enabled() now checks if RCU is watching and
will trigger if it isn't. This is a false warning as the code within
the block handles this case.
Add a new internal macro __trace_##event##_enabled() that doesn't check if
RCU is watching, and convert the irq_enable/disable tracepoints over to
it.
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260701132744.6a7fc68b@robin
Reported-by: Geert Uytterhoeven <geert@linux-m68k.org>
Closes: https://lore.kernel.org/all/CAMuHMdXud_RpWag_hFqa2ByBGRxg6KnxGL1ObCWZrpTsk3TfAw@mail.gmail.com/
Fixes: 9764e731ef ("tracepoint: Add lockdep rcu_is_watching() check to trace_##name##_enabled()")
Tested-by: Geert Uytterhoeven <geert+renesas@glider.be>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
String event fields are not necessarily NUL-terminated, so the filter
predicate functions (filter_pred_string(), filter_pred_strloc() and
filter_pred_strrelloc()) pass the field length to the regex match
callbacks, and the length-aware matchers honour it.
regex_match_glob() was the exception: it ignored the length and called
glob_match(), which scans the string until it hits a NUL byte. Some
string fields are not NUL-terminated. One example is the dynamic char
array of the xfs_* namespace tracepoints, which is copied without a
trailing NUL. For such a field, glob matching reads past the end of
the event field, causing a KASAN slab-out-of-bounds read in
glob_match(), reached via regex_match_glob() and filter_match_preds()
from the xfs_lookup tracepoint.
Add a length-bounded glob_match_len() and use it from regex_match_glob()
so glob matching always stops at the field boundary. The matching loop
is factored into a shared helper so glob_match() keeps its behaviour.
Fixes: 60f1d5e3ba ("ftrace: Support full glob matching")
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/da1aaf125fc3b63320b0c540fd6afa7c3d5b4f1a.1782836943.git.hhhuang@smu.edu.sg
Reported-by: Yuan Tan <yuantan098@gmail.com>
Reported-by: Yifan Wu <yifanwucs@gmail.com>
Reported-by: Juefei Pu <tomapufckgml@gmail.com>
Reported-by: Zhengchuan Liang <zcliangcn@gmail.com>
Reported-by: Xin Liu <bird@lzu.edu.cn>
Assisted-by: Codex:GPT-5.4
Signed-off-by: Huihui Huang <hhhuang@smu.edu.sg>
Signed-off-by: Ren Wei <n05ec@lzu.edu.cn>
Acked-by: Masami Hiramatsu (Google) <mhiramat@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
func_set_flag() dereferences tr->current_trace_flags before verifying
that the current tracer is actually the function tracer. When the active
tracer has been switched away from "function" (e.g., to "wakeup_rt"),
tr->current_trace_flags can be NULL, leading to a NULL pointer
dereference and kernel crash.
The call chain that triggers this is:
trace_options_write()
-> __set_tracer_option()
-> trace->set_flag() /* func_set_flag */
In func_set_flag(), the first operation is:
if (!!set == !!(tr->current_trace_flags->val & bit))
This dereferences tr->current_trace_flags unconditionally. The safety
check that guards against a non-function tracer:
if (tr->current_trace != &function_trace)
return 0;
is placed *after* the dereference, which is too late.
This was observed with the following crash dump:
BUG: unable to handle page fault at 0000000000000000
RIP: func_set_flag+0xd
Call Trace:
__set_tracer_option+0x27
trace_options_write+0x75
vfs_write+0x12a
ksys_write+0x66
do_syscall_64+0x5b
RIP: ffffffff914c973d RSP: ff67ec88b01dfdf0 RFLAGS: 00010202
RAX: 0000000000000000 RBX: ff3a826e80354580 RCX: 0000000000000001
RDX: 0000000000000001 RSI: 0000000000000000 RDI: ffffffff93918080
The disassembly confirms the fault:
func_set_flag+0: mov 0x1f08(%rdi), %rax ; RAX = tr->current_trace_flags = NULL
func_set_flag+13: mov (%rax), %eax ; page fault: dereference NULL
At the time of the crash:
tr->current_trace_flags = 0x0 (NULL)
tr->current_trace = wakeup_rt_tracer (not function_trace)
The scenario is that a process opens a function tracer option file (such
as "func_stack_trace"), then the current tracer is switched to another
tracer (e.g., "wakeup_rt"), which sets current_trace_flags to NULL. When
the process subsequently writes to the option file, func_set_flag() is
invoked and crashes on the NULL dereference.
Fix this by moving the current_trace check before the
current_trace_flags dereference, so that func_set_flag() returns early
when the function tracer is not active.
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260624061715.1445655-1-xiangzao@linux.alibaba.com
Fixes: 76680d0d28 ("tracing: Have function tracer define options per instance")
Signed-off-by: Yuanhe Shu <xiangzao@linux.alibaba.com>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Commit 8928e4a3be ("ring-buffer: Show persistent buffer dropped events
in trace_pipe file") split the "commit" variable in
ring_buffer_read_page() into "commit" (raw) and "size" (masked page
size), but the inner copy loop's terminator was changed to compare rpos
against "event_size" instead of "size".
rpos is the cumulative read offset within the page; event_size is the
length of the single event just copied. The loop thus breaks after the
first event, so only one event is copied per call. This regresses the
per-event memcpy path (partial reads, the active commit page, and
mapped/remote buffers) used by splice/trace_pipe_raw and mmap consumers
into a one-event-at-a-time read.
Compare rpos against the page size as the original code did.
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260616175538.111628-1-devnexen@gmail.com
Fixes: 8928e4a3be ("ring-buffer: Show persistent buffer dropped events in trace_pipe file")
Signed-off-by: David Carlier <devnexen@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
In tracing_set_tracer(), the assignment 'ret = 0' following the
__tracing_resize_ring_buffer() error check is a dead store. After
this point, all subsequent code paths either return with a constant
value (-EINVAL, 0, -EBUSY) or reassign ret before reading it
(tracing_arm_snapshot_locked, tracer_init).
Remove the unnecessary assignment.
No functional change.
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/6a2a37c4.f0a9eb5a.2fc603.7724@mx.google.com
Signed-off-by: Wayen.Yan <win847@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
When RB_FORCE_8BYTE_ALIGNMENT is true, rb_calculate_event_length()
reserves the space of event->array[0] for placing the data length and
rb_update_event() stores the data length in event->array[0]
accordingly. As a result the whole event length will add extra 4 bytes
for sizeof(event.array[0]) unconditionally.
But ring_buffer_event_length() only subtracts the
sizeof(event->array[0]) for events larger than RB_MAX_SMALL_DATA +
sizeof(event->array[0]). As a result, small events on architectures
with RB_FORCE_8BYTE_ALIGNMENT=true report a data length that is 4
bytes larger than expected.
To fix it, add the RB_FORCE_8BYTE_ALIGNMENT as a condition to subtract
the size of that length field whenever RB_FORCE_8BYTE_ALIGNMENT is
true.
This issue is observed in a riscv64 kernel with
CONFIG_HAVE_64BIT_ALIGNED_ACCESS set to y, when we run ftrace selftest
trace_marker_raw.tc, we get the weird log: for cases where the id is
1..100, the number of data field is 8*N, but once id exceeds 100, the
number of data field becomes 8*N+4:
# 1 buf: 58 00 00 00 80 5e d1 63 (number of data field is 8*1)
...
# a buf: 58 ... (number of data field is 8*2)
...
# 64 buf: 58 ... (number of data field is 8*13)
# 65 buf: 58 ... (number of data field is 8*13+4)
After applying this change, the number of data field keeps being 8*N+4
consistently.
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260607072431.125633-2-hui.wang@canonical.com
Fixes: 2271048d1b ("ring-buffer: Do 8 byte alignment for 64 bit that can not handle 4 byte align")
Signed-off-by: Hui Wang <hui.wang@canonical.com>
Reviewed-by: Masami Hiramatsu (Google) <mhiramat@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Pull perf events fixes from Ingo Molnar:
- Fix a perf_event_attr::remove_on_exec bug for group events
(Taeyang Lee)
- Fix uprobes CALL emulation interaction with shadow stacks, and
add a testcase for this (David Windsor)
- Fix uprobes unregister bug (Jiri Olsa)
* tag 'perf-urgent-2026-07-05' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip:
uprobes/x86: Use proper mm_struct in __in_uprobe_trampoline
selftests/x86: Add shadow stack uprobe CALL test
x86/uprobes: Keep shadow stack in sync for emulated CALLs
perf/core: Detach event groups during remove_on_exec
Pull futex fix from Ingo Molnar:
- Fix a futex-requeue deadlock detection regression (Thomas Gleixner)
* tag 'locking-urgent-2026-07-05' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip:
futex/requeue: Revert "Prevent NULL pointer dereference in remove_waiter() on self-deadlock""
Wongi and Jungwoo decoded and reported a non-leader exec() related race
which can result in an UAF:
sys_timer_delete() exec()
posix_cpu_timer_del()
// Observes old leader
p = pid_task(pid, pid_type); de_thread()
switch_leader();
release_task(old_leader)
__exit_signal(old_leader)
sighand = lock(old_leader, sighand);
posix_cpu_timers*_exit();
sighand = lock_task_sighand(p) unhash_task(old_leader);
sh = lock(p, sighand) old_leader->sighand = NULL;
unlock(sighand);
(p->sighand == NULL)
unlock(sh)
return NULL;
// Returns without action
if(!sighand)
return 0;
free_posix_timer();
This is "harmless" unless the deleted timer was armed and enqueued in
p->signal because on exec() a TGID targeted timer is inherited.
As sys_timer_delete() freed the underlying posix timer object
run_posix_cpu_timers() or any timerqueue related add/delete operations on
other timers will access the freed object's timerqueue node, which results
in an UAF.
There is a similar problem vs. posix_cpu_timer_set(). For regular posix
timers it just transiently returns -ESRCH to user space, but for the use
case in do_cpu_nanosleep() it's the same UAF just that the k_itimer is
allocated on the stack.
Also posix_cpu_timer_rearm() fails to rearm the timer, which means it stops
to expire.
While debating solutions Frederic pointed out another problem:
posix_cpu_timer_del(tmr)
__exit_signal(p)
posix_cpu_timers*_exit(p);
unhash_task(p);
p->sighand = NULL;
sh = lock_task_sighand(p)
sighand = p->sighand;
if (!sighand)
return NULL;
lock(sighand);
if (!sh)
WARN_ON_ONCE(timer_queued(tmr));
On weakly ordered architectures it is not guaranteed that
posix_cpu_timer_del() will observe the stores in posix_cpu_timers*_exit()
when p->sighand is observed as NULL, which means the WARN() can be a false
positive.
Solve these issues by:
1) Changing the store in __exit_signal() to smp_store_release().
2) Adding a smp_acquire__after_ctrl_dep() into the !sighand path
of lock_task_sighand().
3) Creating a helper function for looking up the task and locking sighand
which does not return when sighand == NULL. Instead it retries the
task lookup and only if that fails it gives up.
4) Using that helper in the three affected functions.
#1/#2 ensures that the reader side which observes sighand == NULL also
observes all preceeding stores, i.e. the stores in posix_cpu_timers*_exit()
and the ones in unhash_task().
#3 ensures that the above described non-leader exec() situation is handled
gracefully. When the task lookup returns the old leader, but sighand ==
NULL then it retries. In the non-leader exec() case the subsequent task
lookup will observe the new leader due to #1/#2. In normal exit() scenarios
the subsequent lookup fails.
When the task lookup fails, the function also checks whether the timer is
still enqueued and issues a warning if that's the case. Unfortunately there
is nothing which can be done about it, but as the task is already not
longer visible the timer should not be accessed anymore. This check also
requires memory ordering, which is not provided when the first lookup
fails. To achieve that the check is preceeded by a smp_rmb() which pairs
with the smp_wmb() in write_seqlock() in __exit_signal(). That ensures that
the stores in posix_cpu_timers*_exit() are visible.
The history of the non-leader exec() issue goes back to the early days of
posix CPU timers, which stored a pointer to the group leader task in the
timer. That obviously fails when a non-leader exec() switches the leader.
commit e0a7021710 ("posix-cpu-timers: workaround to suppress the problems
with mt exec") added a temporary workaround for that in 2010 which survived
about 10 years. The fix for the workaround changed the task pointer to a
pid pointer, but failed to see the subtle race described above. So the
Fixes tag picks that commit, which seems to be halfways accurate.
Thanks to Frederic Weissbecker, Oleg Nesterov and Peter Zijlstra for
review, feedback and suggestions and to Wongi and Jungwoo for the excellent
bug report and analysis!
Fixes: 55e8c8eb2c ("posix-cpu-timers: Store a reference to a pid not a task")
Reported-by: Wongi Lee <qw3rtyp0@gmail.com>
Reported-by: Jungwoo Lee <jwlee2217@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@kernel.org>
Reviewed-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Pull BPF fixes from Daniel Borkmann:
- Initialize task local storage before fork bails out to free the task
(Jann Horn)
- Fix insn_aux_data leak on verifier error path (KaFai Wan)
- Reject BPF inode storage map creation when BPF LSM is uninitialized
(Matt Bobrowski)
- Mask pseudo pointer values in verifier logs when pointer leaks are
not allowed (Nuoqi Gui)
- Harden BPF JIT against spraying via IBPB flush (Pawan Gupta)
- Reject a skb-modifying SK_SKB stream parser since the latter is only
meant to measure the next message (Sechang Lim)
- Fix bpf_refcount_acquire to reject refcounted allocation arguments
with a non-zero fixed offset (Yiyang Chen)
* tag 'bpf-fixes' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/bpf/bpf:
bpf: Prefer dirty packs for eBPF allocations
bpf: Prefer packs that won't trigger an IBPB flush on allocation
bpf: Skip redundant IBPB in pack allocator
bpf: Restrict JIT predictor flush to cBPF
x86/bugs: Enable IBPB flush on BPF JIT allocation
bpf: Support for hardening against JIT spraying
bpf: Reject BPF_MAP_TYPE_INODE_STORAGE creation if BPF LSM is uninitialized
bpf,fork: wipe ->bpf_storage before bailouts that access it
bpf: Fix insn_aux_data leak on verifier err_free_env path
selftests/bpf: Cover pseudo-BTF ksym log masking
bpf: Mask pseudo pointer values in verifier logs
selftests/bpf: Cover refcount acquire node offsets
bpf: Reject offset refcount acquire arguments
selftests/bpf: test rejection of a packet-modifying SK_SKB stream parser
bpf, sockmap: reject a packet-modifying SK_SKB stream parser
selftests/bpf: don't modify the skb in the strparser parser prog
The commit cited below should not have been merged. It attemted to fix an
existing problem ansd thereby introduced new problems by keeping the
pi_state in state Q_REQUEUE_PI_IN_PROGRESS and leaking it.
Based on the commit description the intention was to handle the case
when task_blocks_on_rt_mutex() returns -EDEADLK and the following
remove_waiter() dereferences the NULL pointer in waiter->task.
That is already handled by Davidlohr in commit 40a25d59e8
("locking/rtmutex: Skip remove_waiter() when waiter is not enqueued") and
requires no further acting.
Revert the commit breaking the "waiter == owner" case again.
Fixes: 74e144274a ("futex/requeue: Prevent NULL pointer dereference in remove_waiter() on self-deadlock")
Reported-by: Michael Bommarito <michael.bommarito@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Sebastian Andrzej Siewior <bigeasy@linutronix.de>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@kernel.org>
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260701131150.0Ijhq4Dw@linutronix.de
Closes: https://lore.kernel.org/all/20260629020049.2082397-1-michael.bommarito@gmail.com
perf_event_remove_on_exec() removes events by calling
perf_event_exit_event(). For top-level events, this removes the event from
the context with DETACH_EXIT only.
This can leave inconsistent group state when a removed event is a group
leader and the group contains siblings without remove_on_exec. If the group
was active, the surviving siblings can remain active and attached to the
removed leader's sibling list, but are no longer represented by a valid
group leader on the PMU context active lists.
A later close of the removed leader uses DETACH_GROUP and can promote the
still-active siblings from this stale group state. The next schedule-in can
then add an already-linked active_list entry again, corrupting the PMU
context active list.
With DEBUG_LIST enabled, this is caught as a list_add double-add in
merge_sched_in().
Fix this by detaching group relationships when remove_on_exec removes an
event. This preserves the existing task-exit and revoke behavior, while
ensuring surviving siblings are ungrouped before the removed event leaves
the context.
Fixes: 2e498d0a74 ("perf: Add support for event removal on exec")
Signed-off-by: Taeyang Lee <0wn@theori.io>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org>
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/ai65GgZcC0LAlWLG@Taeyangs-MacBook-Pro.local
The pack allocator only flushes predictors when reusing a dirty pack for
cBPF, eBPF allocations never trigger a flush. Currently, eBPF picks the
first free pack, which could be a clean pack. As an optimization, leaving
a clean pack for cBPF can avoid flushes.
Prefer dirty packs for eBPF and keep clean packs free for cBPF. This
mirrors the existing cBPF preference for clean packs: each program kind
prefers the pack that avoids an extra flush, and falls back to the other
kind only when no preferred pack has room. eBPF reuse of a dirty pack is
harmless since eBPF being privileged does not flush.
Signed-off-by: Pawan Gupta <pawan.kumar.gupta@linux.intel.com>
Acked-by: Daniel Borkmann <daniel@iogearbox.net>
Signed-off-by: Daniel Borkmann <daniel@iogearbox.net>
Currently BPF pack allocator picks the chunks from the first available
pack. While this is okay, it naturally leads to more frequent flushes
when there are multiple packs in the system that weren't used since the
last flush.
As an optimization prefer allocating the new programs from packs that
are unused since last flush. When all packs are dirty, allocation forces
a flush and marks all packs clean.
Below are some future optimizations ideas:
1. Currently, the "dirty" tracking is only done at the pack-level.
Flush frequency can further be reduced with chunk-level tracking.
This requires a new bitmap per-pack to track the dirty state.
2. IBPB flush is done on all CPUs, even if only a single CPU ran the
BPF program. On a system with hundreds of CPUs this could be a
major bottleneck forcing hundreds of IPIs to deliver the flush.
The solution is to track the CPUs where a BPF program ran, and
issue IBPB only on those CPUs.
3. Avoid IBPB when flush is already done at other sources (e.g.
context switch).
Signed-off-by: Pawan Gupta <pawan.kumar.gupta@linux.intel.com>
Acked-by: Daniel Borkmann <daniel@iogearbox.net>
Signed-off-by: Daniel Borkmann <daniel@iogearbox.net>
bpf_prog_pack_alloc() issues IBPB on all CPUs on every cBPF allocation,
even when reusing chunks from an existing pack where no new memory was
touched since the last IBPB.
Since IBPB on all CPUs is heavy, Dave Hansen suggested to track allocation
since last IBPB, and only issue IBPB at reuse for the chunks that have not
seen an IBPB since they were last freed.
Track per-pack whether an IBPB is needed via arch_flush_needed. Set it when
allocating a chunk, reset on IBPB flush. On reuse, conditionally issue the
flush. Since IBPB invalidates all BTB entries, clear the flag on all packs
after flushing.
Signed-off-by: Pawan Gupta <pawan.kumar.gupta@linux.intel.com>
Acked-by: Daniel Borkmann <daniel@iogearbox.net>
Signed-off-by: Daniel Borkmann <daniel@iogearbox.net>
Currently predictor flush on memory reuse is done for all BPF JIT
allocations, but only cBPF programs can be loaded by an unprivileged user.
eBPF is privileged by default, and flushing predictors for all CPUs on
every eBPF reuse penalizes the common case for no security benefit.
eBPF allocations can be frequent on busy systems, only flush predictors
for cBPF programs. Trampoline and dispatcher allocations also skip the
flush as they are eBPF-only.
Signed-off-by: Pawan Gupta <pawan.kumar.gupta@linux.intel.com>
Acked-by: Daniel Borkmann <daniel@iogearbox.net>
Signed-off-by: Daniel Borkmann <daniel@iogearbox.net>
The BPF JIT allocator packs many small programs into larger executable
allocations and reuses space within those allocations as programs are
loaded and freed. When fresh code is written into space that a previous
program occupied, an indirect jump into the new program can reuse a branch
prediction left behind by the old one.
Flush the indirect branch predictors before reusing JIT memory so that
indirect jumps into a newly written program don't reuse predictions from an
old program that occupied the same space.
Introduce bpf_arch_pred_flush_enabled static key and bpf_arch_pred_flush
static call for flushing the branch predictors on JIT memory reuse.
Architectures that need a flush, can update it to a predictor flush
function. By default, its a NOP and does not emit any CALL.
Allocations larger than a pack are not covered by this flush. That is safe
because cBPF programs (the unprivileged attack surface) are bounded well
below a pack size. Issue a warning if this assumption is ever violated
while the flush is active.
Signed-off-by: Pawan Gupta <pawan.kumar.gupta@linux.intel.com>
Acked-by: Daniel Borkmann <daniel@iogearbox.net>
Signed-off-by: Daniel Borkmann <daniel@iogearbox.net>
Pull probes fixes from Masami Hiramatsu:
"fprobe fixes and spelling typos:
- Fix NULL pointer dereference in fprobe_fgraph_entry(). Prevent
general protection faults by checking shadow-stack reservation
bounds. Skip mid-flight registered fprobes that were not counted
during sizing.
eprobe: fix string pointer extraction
- Correct the casting of string pointers read from the ringbuffer to
prevent truncation of base event pointer variables when
dereferencing FILTER_PTR_STRING fields.
tracing/probes: clean up argument parsing and BTF helper logic
- Make the $ prefix mandatory for comm access: Require the $ prefix
for special fetcharg variables like $comm and $COMM, preventing
naming conflicts with regular BTF-based event fields.
- Fix double addition of offset for @+FOFFSET: Clear the temporary
offset variable after setting the FETCH_OP_FOFFS instruction to
avoid applying the offset multiple times.
- Remove WARN_ON_ONCE from parse_btf_arg: Prevent triggering a kernel
warning via user-space input when creating a kprobe event on a raw
address.
- Fix typo in a log message: Correct a spelling error ("$-valiable")
in trace probe log messages.
samples/trace_events: improve error checking
- Validate the thread pointer returned from kthread_run() in the
trace events sample code to properly handle thread creation
failures"
* tag 'probes-fixes-v7.2-rc1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/trace/linux-trace:
tracing/probes: Make the $ prefix mandatory for comm access
tracing/fprobe: Fix NULL pointer dereference in fprobe_fgraph_entry()
tracing/probes: Fix double addition of offset for @+FOFFSET
tracing: eprobe: read the complete FILTER_PTR_STRING pointer
tracing/events: Fix to check the simple_tsk_fn creation
tracing/probes: Remove WARN_ON_ONCE from parse_btf_arg
tracing: probes: fix typo in a log message
Multiple readers access audit_queue.qlen via skb_queue_len() without
holding the queue lock or using READ_ONCE(), while kauditd writes to
this field via the skb_dequeue() → __skb_unlink() path with WRITE_ONCE()
protected by a spinlock. This constitutes data races.
All affected skb_queue_len(&audit_queue) call sites:
- kauditd_thread() wait_event_freezable() condition
- audit_receive_msg() AUDIT_GET handler (s.backlog assignment)
- audit_receive() backlog check
- audit_log_start() backlog check and pr_warn()
KCSAN reports the following conflicting access pattern (one example):
==================================================================
BUG: KCSAN: data-race in audit_log_start / skb_dequeue
write (marked) to 0xffffffff8512ee20 of 4 bytes by task 661 on cpu 57:
skb_dequeue+0x70/0xf0
kauditd_send_queue+0x71/0x220
kauditd_thread+0x1cb/0x430
kthread+0x1c2/0x210
ret_from_fork+0x162/0x1a0
ret_from_fork_asm+0x1a/0x30
read to 0xffffffff8512ee20 of 4 bytes by task 36586 on cpu 1:
audit_log_start+0x2a0/0x6b0
audit_core_dumps+0x64/0xa0
do_coredump+0x14b/0x1260
get_signal+0xeb2/0xf70
arch_do_signal_or_restart+0x41/0x170
exit_to_user_mode_loop+0xa2/0x1c0
do_syscall_64+0x1a3/0x1c0
entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x76/0xe0
value changed: 0x00000001 -> 0x00000000
==================================================================
Resolve the race by switching to lockless helper skb_queue_len_lockless(),
which internally uses READ_ONCE() and properly pairs with the WRITE_ONCE()
write accesses already present on the writer side.
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Fixes: 3197542482 ("audit: rework audit_log_start()")
Signed-off-by: Chi Wang <wangchi@kylinos.cn>
Reviewed-by: Ricardo Robaina <rrobaina@redhat.com>
[PM: line length tweak]
Signed-off-by: Paul Moore <paul@paul-moore.com>
fprobe_fgraph_entry() sizes a shadow-stack reservation in one walk of
the per-ip fprobe list and fills it in a second walk, both under
rcu_read_lock() only. A fprobe registered on an already-live ip can
become visible between the two walks, so the fill walk processes an
exit_handler the sizing walk did not count and used runs past
reserved_words. If the sizing walk counted nothing, fgraph_data is NULL
and the first write_fprobe_header() faults:
Oops: general protection fault, probably for non-canonical address ...
KASAN: null-ptr-deref in range [0x0000000000000000-0x0000000000000007]
RIP: 0010:fprobe_fgraph_entry+0xa38/0xf10 kernel/trace/fprobe.c:167
Call Trace:
<TASK>
function_graph_enter_regs+0x44c/0xa10 kernel/trace/fgraph.c:677
ftrace_graph_func+0xc5/0x140 arch/x86/kernel/ftrace.c:671
__kernel_text_address+0x9/0x40 kernel/extable.c:78
arch_stack_walk+0x117/0x170 arch/x86/kernel/stacktrace.c:26
kmem_cache_free+0x188/0x580 mm/slub.c:6378
tcp_data_queue+0x18d/0x6550 net/ipv4/tcp_input.c:5590
[...]
</TASK>
The list cannot be frozen across the two walks, so skip a node that does
not fit the reservation and count it as missed.
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/all/20260619184425.3824774-1-rhkrqnwk98@gmail.com/
Fixes: 4346ba1604 ("fprobe: Rewrite fprobe on function-graph tracer")
Signed-off-by: Sechang Lim <rhkrqnwk98@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Masami Hiramatsu (Google) <mhiramat@kernel.org>
For a char * element in an event, the FILTER_PTR_STRING filter type is
used. When the event occurs, a pointer is stored in the ringbuffer.
If an eprobe references such a char * element of a "base event", the
stored pointer is truncated when it's read from the ringbuffer.
$ cd /sys/kernel/tracing
$ echo 'e rcu.rcu_utilization $s:x64 $s:string' > dynamic_events
$ echo 1 > tracing_on
$ echo 1 > events/eprobes/enable
$ sleep 1
$ echo 0 > events/eprobes/enable
$ cat trace
<idle>-0 ...: (rcu.rcu_utilization) arg1=0x4f arg2=(fault)
<idle>-0 ...: (rcu.rcu_utilization) arg1=0x2 arg2=(fault)
The problem is in get_event_field
val = (unsigned long)(*(char *)addr);
addr points to the position in the ringbuffer where the pointer was
stored. The assignment reads only the lowest byte of the pointer.
Fix the cast to read the whole pointer. The output of the test above
is now
<idle>-0 ... arg1=0xffffffff81c7d3f3 arg2="Start scheduler-tick"
<idle>-0 ... arg1=0xffffffff81c57340 arg2="End scheduler-tick"
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/all/20260620145339.3234726-1-martin@kaiser.cx/
Fixes: f04dec9346 ("tracing/eprobes: Fix reading of string fields")
Signed-off-by: Martin Kaiser <martin@kaiser.cx>
Signed-off-by: Masami Hiramatsu (Google) <mhiramat@kernel.org>
When CONFIG_BPF_LSM=y is set, BPF inode storage maps
(BPF_MAP_TYPE_INODE_STORAGE) are compiled into the kernel. However,
if the BPF LSM is not explicitly enabled at boot time (e.g. omitted
from the "lsm=" boot parameter), lsm_prepare() is never executed for
the BPF LSM.
Consequently, the BPF inode security blob offset
(bpf_lsm_blob_sizes.lbs_inode) is never initialized and remains at
its default compiled size of 8 bytes instead of being updated to a
valid offset past the reserved struct rcu_head (typically 16 bytes
or more).
When a privileged user creates and updates a BPF_MAP_TYPE_INODE_STORAGE
map, bpf_inode() evaluates inode->i_security + 8. This erroneously
aliases the struct rcu_head.func callback pointer at the beginning
of the inode->i_security blob. During subsequent map element cleanup
or inode destruction, writing NULL to owner_storage clears the queued
RCU callback pointer. When rcu_do_batch() later executes the queued
callback, it attempts an instruction fetch at address 0x0, triggering
an immediate kernel panic.
Fix this by introducing a global bpf_lsm_initialized boolean flag
marked with __ro_after_init. Set this flag to true inside bpf_lsm_init()
when the LSM framework successfully registers the BPF LSM. Gate map
allocation in inode_storage_map_alloc() on this flag, returning
-EOPNOTSUPP if the BPF LSM is in turn uninitialized.
This fail-fast approach prevents userspace from allocating inode
storage maps when the supporting BPF LSM infrastructure is absent,
avoiding zombie map states.
Fixes: 8ea636848a ("bpf: Implement bpf_local_storage for inodes")
Reported-by: oxsignal <awo@kakao.com>
Signed-off-by: Matt Bobrowski <mattbobrowski@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Daniel Borkmann <daniel@iogearbox.net>
Reviewed-by: Emil Tsalapatis <emil@etsalapatis.com>
Reviewed-by: Amery Hung <ameryhung@gmail.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/bpf/20260628201103.3624525-1-mattbobrowski@google.com
put_prev_task_scx() warns when a runnable task drops to a lower sched_class
without SCX_OPS_ENQ_LAST, on the assumption that balance_one() would have
kept it running. Core scheduling breaks that: a forced-idle SMT sibling
reschedules through the core_pick fast path in pick_next_task(), which skips
pick_task_scx() and thus balance_one(), so a runnable task can drop to idle
with ENQ_LAST unset.
Gate the warning on sched_cpu_cookie_match(): a cookie mismatch means core
scheduling forced the idle, while a match (or core scheduling off) still
catches a genuine missing-ENQ_LAST drop.
Fixes: 7c65ae81ea ("sched_ext: Don't call put_prev_task_scx() before picking the next task")
Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Reviewed-by: Andrea Righi <arighi@nvidia.com>
Currently, copy_process() can bail out to free_task() before p->bpf_storage
has been initialized, with this call graph (shown here for the
!CONFIG_MEMCG case):
copy_process
dup_task_struct
arch_dup_task_struct
[copies the entire task_struct, including ->bpf_storage member]
[RLIMIT_NPROC check fails]
delayed_free_task
free_task
bpf_task_storage_free
rcu_dereference(task->bpf_storage)
bpf_local_storage_destroy
In this case, the nascent task's ->bpf_storage member that
bpf_local_storage_destroy() operates on is a plain copy of the parent's
->bpf_storage pointer, not a real initialized pointer.
This leads to badness (kernel hangs, UAF).
This is reachable as long as the process calling fork() has been inserted
into a task storage map.
Cc: stable@kernel.org
Fixes: a10787e6d5 ("bpf: Enable task local storage for tracing programs")
Signed-off-by: Jann Horn <jannh@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrii Nakryiko <andrii@kernel.org>
A child sub-scheduler dereferences its parent scx_sched throughout its life,
e.g., in scx_sub_disable() which reparents the child's tasks and calls
parent->ops.sub_detach() after unlinking from the parent. However, the
parent is pinned only through parent->sub_kset, which is dropped during
disable. The parent scx_sched can be RCU-freed while a child is still
disabling.
Take a direct reference on the parent in scx_alloc_and_add_sched(), dropped
in scx_sched_free_rcu_work(), so a parent always outlives its descendants.
Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>