Summary
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: ring-buffer: Handle race...
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
ring-buffer: Handle race between rb_move_tail and rb_check_pages
It seems a data race between ring_buffer writing and integrity check.
That is, RB_FLAG of head_page is been updating, while at same time
RB_FLAG was cleared when doing integrity check rb_check_pages():
rb_check_pages() rb_handle_head_page():
rb_head_page_deactivate()
rb_head_page_set_normal()
rb_head_page_activate()
We do intergrity test of the list to check if the list is corrupted and
it is still worth doing it. So, let's refactor rb_check_pages() such that
we no longer clear and set flag during the list sanity checking.
[1] and [2] are the test to reproduce and the crash report respectively.
1:
while true;
do
# the "trace" file is closed after read
head -1 /sys/kernel/tracing/trace > /dev/null
done
sysctl -w kernel.panic_on_warn=1
# function tracer will writing enough data into ring_buffer
echo function > /sys/kernel/tracing/current_tracer
./read_trace.sh &
./read_trace.sh &
./read_trace.sh &
./read_trace.sh &
./read_trace.sh &
./read_trace.sh &
./read_trace.sh &
./read_trace.sh &
2:
------------[ cut here ]------------
WARNING: CPU: 9 PID: 62 at kernel/trace/ring_buffer.c:2653
rb_move_tail+0x450/0x470
Modules linked in:
CPU: 9 PID: 62 Comm: ksoftirqd/9 Tainted: G W 6.2.0-rc6+
Hardware name: QEMU Standard PC (i440FX + PIIX, 1996), BIOS
rel-1.15.0-0-g2dd4b9b3f840-prebuilt.qemu.org 04/01/2014
RIP: 0010:rb_move_tail+0x450/0x470
Code: ff ff 4c 89 c8 f0 4d 0f b1 02 48 89 c2 48 83 e2 fc 49 39 d0 75 24
83 e0 03 83 f8 02 0f 84 e1 fb ff ff 48 8b 57 10 f0 ff 42 08 <0f> 0b 83
f8 02 0f 84 ce fb ff ff e9 db
RSP: 0018:ffffb5564089bd00 EFLAGS: 00000203
RAX: 0000000000000000 RBX: ffff9db385a2bf81 RCX: ffffb5564089bd18
RDX: ffff9db281110100 RSI: 0000000000000fe4 RDI: ffff9db380145400
RBP: ffff9db385a2bf80 R08: ffff9db385a2bfc0 R09: ffff9db385a2bfc2
R10: ffff9db385a6c000 R11: ffff9db385a2bf80 R12: 0000000000000000
R13: 00000000000003e8 R14: ffff9db281110100 R15: ffffffffbb006108
FS: 0000000000000000(0000) GS:ffff9db3bdcc0000(0000)
knlGS:0000000000000000
CS: 0010 DS: 0000 ES: 0000 CR0: 0000000080050033
CR2: 00005602323024c8 CR3: 0000000022e0c000 CR4: 00000000000006e0
Call Trace:
ring_buffer_lock_reserve+0x136/0x360
? __do_softirq+0x287/0x2df
? __pfx_rcu_softirq_qs+0x10/0x10
trace_function+0x21/0x110
? __pfx_rcu_softirq_qs+0x10/0x10
? __do_softirq+0x287/0x2df
function_trace_call+0xf6/0x120
0xffffffffc038f097
? rcu_softirq_qs+0x5/0x140
rcu_softirq_qs+0x5/0x140
__do_softirq+0x287/0x2df
run_ksoftirqd+0x2a/0x30
smpboot_thread_fn+0x188/0x220
? __pfx_smpboot_thread_fn+0x10/0x10
kthread+0xe7/0x110
? __pfx_kthread+0x10/0x10
ret_from_fork+0x2c/0x50
---[ end trace 0000000000000000 ]---
[ crash report and test reproducer credit goes to Zheng Yejian]
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