Re: [PATCH] tracing: Fix use-after-free in trace_pipe read on sub-buffer order change

Writing to buffer_subbuf_size_kb calls ring_buffer_subbuf_order_set(),
which frees every sub-buffer of the ring buffer, including the reader
page, and replaces them with newly allocated ones.

Readers of trace_pipe hold pointers into those pages. ring_buffer_peek()
looks up an event under cpu_buffer->reader_lock but returns the event
pointer after dropping the lock, and peek_next_entry() then calls
ring_buffer_event_length() and ring_buffer_event_data() on it. If the
sub-buffer order is changed in that window, the reader dereferences
freed memory:

  BUG: KASAN: use-after-free in ring_buffer_peek+0x3e0/0x430
  Read of size 1 at addr ffff88802a4cf010 by task syz-executor989/6002

  Freed by:
   free_buffer_page kernel/trace/ring_buffer.c:398 [inline]
   ring_buffer_subbuf_order_set+0x1325/0x18e0 kernel/trace/ring_buffer.c:7444
   buffer_subbuf_size_write+0x182/0x280 kernel/trace/trace.c:8221

Take trace_access_lock(RING_BUFFER_ALL_CPUS) around the order change.
This is the lock trace_pipe readers already hold across their entire
peek-and-print loop, so the swap can no longer race with a reader that
is dereferencing a peeked event.

Fixes: f9b94daa542a ("ring-buffer: Set new size of the ring buffer sub page")
Reported-by: syzbot+685955db58555575fdd2@syzkaller.appspotmail.com
Closes: https://syzkaller.appspot.com/bug?extid=685955db58555575fdd2
Tested-by: syzbot+685955db58555575fdd2@syzkaller.appspotmail.com
Signed-off-by: Deepanshu Kartikey <redacted>
---
 kernel/trace/trace.c | 3 +++
 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+)

diff --git a/kernel/trace/trace.c b/kernel/trace/trace.c
index 395238b2b715..c38a5de602e0 100644
--- a/kernel/trace/trace.c
+++ b/kernel/trace/trace.c

@@ -8214,6 +8214,8 @@ buffer_subbuf_size_write(struct file *filp, const char __user *ubuf,
        /* Do not allow tracing while changing the order of the ring buffer */
        tracing_stop_tr(tr);

+       trace_access_lock(RING_BUFFER_ALL_CPUS);
+
        old_order = ring_buffer_subbuf_order_get(tr->array_buffer.buffer);
        if (old_order == order)
                goto out;

@@ -8253,6 +8255,7 @@ buffer_subbuf_size_write(struct file *filp, const char __user *ubuf,
 #endif
        (*ppos)++;
  out:
+       trace_access_unlock(RING_BUFFER_ALL_CPUS);
        if (ret)
                cnt = ret;
        tracing_start_tr(tr);
--

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