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Pull perf fix from Borislav Petkov:

 - Fix a use-after-free case where the perf pending task callback would
   see an already freed event

* tag 'perf_urgent_for_v6.1_rc8' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip:
  perf: Fix perf_pending_task() UaF
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torvalds committed Dec 4, 2022
2 parents eea8beb + 517e6a3 commit 0c3b5bc
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17 changes: 13 additions & 4 deletions kernel/events/core.c
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Expand Up @@ -2291,6 +2291,7 @@ event_sched_out(struct perf_event *event,
!event->pending_work) {
event->pending_work = 1;
dec = false;
WARN_ON_ONCE(!atomic_long_inc_not_zero(&event->refcount));
task_work_add(current, &event->pending_task, TWA_RESUME);
}
if (dec)
Expand Down Expand Up @@ -2336,6 +2337,7 @@ group_sched_out(struct perf_event *group_event,

#define DETACH_GROUP 0x01UL
#define DETACH_CHILD 0x02UL
#define DETACH_DEAD 0x04UL

/*
* Cross CPU call to remove a performance event
Expand All @@ -2356,12 +2358,20 @@ __perf_remove_from_context(struct perf_event *event,
update_cgrp_time_from_cpuctx(cpuctx, false);
}

/*
* Ensure event_sched_out() switches to OFF, at the very least
* this avoids raising perf_pending_task() at this time.
*/
if (flags & DETACH_DEAD)
event->pending_disable = 1;
event_sched_out(event, cpuctx, ctx);
if (flags & DETACH_GROUP)
perf_group_detach(event);
if (flags & DETACH_CHILD)
perf_child_detach(event);
list_del_event(event, ctx);
if (flags & DETACH_DEAD)
event->state = PERF_EVENT_STATE_DEAD;

if (!ctx->nr_events && ctx->is_active) {
if (ctx == &cpuctx->ctx)
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ctx = perf_event_ctx_lock(event);
WARN_ON_ONCE(ctx->parent_ctx);
perf_remove_from_context(event, DETACH_GROUP);

raw_spin_lock_irq(&ctx->lock);
/*
* Mark this event as STATE_DEAD, there is no external reference to it
* anymore.
Expand All @@ -5135,8 +5143,7 @@ int perf_event_release_kernel(struct perf_event *event)
* Thus this guarantees that we will in fact observe and kill _ALL_
* child events.
*/
event->state = PERF_EVENT_STATE_DEAD;
raw_spin_unlock_irq(&ctx->lock);
perf_remove_from_context(event, DETACH_GROUP|DETACH_DEAD);

perf_event_ctx_unlock(event, ctx);

Expand Down Expand Up @@ -6577,6 +6584,8 @@ static void perf_pending_task(struct callback_head *head)
if (rctx >= 0)
perf_swevent_put_recursion_context(rctx);
preempt_enable_notrace();

put_event(event);
}

#ifdef CONFIG_GUEST_PERF_EVENTS
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