eventfs: Hold eventfs_mutex when calling callback functions

The callback function that is used to create inodes and dentries is not
protected by anything and the data that is passed to it could become
stale. After eventfs_remove_dir() is called by the tracing system, it is
free to remove the events that are associated to that directory.
Unfortunately, that means the callbacks must not be called after that.

     CPU0				CPU1
     ----				----
 eventfs_root_lookup() {
				 eventfs_remove_dir() {
				      mutex_lock(&event_mutex);
				      ei->is_freed = set;
				      mutex_unlock(&event_mutex);
				 }
				 kfree(event_call);

    for (...) {
      entry = &ei->entries[i];
      r = entry->callback() {
          call = data;		// call == event_call above
          if (call->flags ...)

 [ USE AFTER FREE BUG ]

The safest way to protect this is to wrap the callback with:

 mutex_lock(&eventfs_mutex);
 if (!ei->is_freed)
     r = entry->callback();
 else
     r = -1;
 mutex_unlock(&eventfs_mutex);

This will make sure that the callback will not be called after it is
freed. But now it needs to be known that the callback is called while
holding internal eventfs locks, and that it must not call back into the
eventfs / tracefs system. There's no reason it should anyway, but document
that as well.

Link: https://lore.kernel.org/all/CA+G9fYu9GOEbD=rR5eMR-=HJ8H6rMsbzDC2ZY5=Y50WpWAE7_Q@mail.gmail.com/
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20231101172649.906696613@goodmis.org

Cc: Ajay Kaher <akaher@vmware.com>
Cc: Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@arm.com>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Fixes: 5790b1fb3d672 ("eventfs: Remove eventfs_file and just use eventfs_inode")
Reported-by: Linux Kernel Functional Testing <lkft@linaro.org>
Reported-by: Naresh Kamboju <naresh.kamboju@linaro.org>
Tested-by: Linux Kernel Functional Testing <lkft@linaro.org>
Tested-by: Naresh Kamboju <naresh.kamboju@linaro.org>
Reviewed-by: Masami Hiramatsu (Google) <mhiramat@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (Google) <rostedt@goodmis.org>

1 files changed, 20 insertions, 2 deletions

diff --git a/fs/tracefs/event_inode.c b/fs/tracefs/event_inode.c
index 93d08e552483..8ac9abf7a3d5 100644
--- a/fs/tracefs/event_inode.c
+++ b/fs/tracefs/event_inode.c
@@ -615,7 +615,13 @@ static struct dentry *eventfs_root_lookup(struct inode *dir,
 		entry = &ei->entries[i];
 		if (strcmp(name, entry->name) == 0) {
 			void *cdata = data;
-			r = entry->callback(name, &mode, &cdata, &fops);
+			mutex_lock(&eventfs_mutex);
+			/* If ei->is_freed, then the event itself may be too */
+			if (!ei->is_freed)
+				r = entry->callback(name, &mode, &cdata, &fops);
+			else
+				r = -1;
+			mutex_unlock(&eventfs_mutex);
 			if (r <= 0)
 				continue;
 			ret = simple_lookup(dir, dentry, flags);
@@ -749,7 +755,13 @@ static int dcache_dir_open_wrapper(struct inode *inode, struct file *file)
 		void *cdata = data;
 		entry = &ei->entries[i];
 		name = entry->name;
-		r = entry->callback(name, &mode, &cdata, &fops);
+		mutex_lock(&eventfs_mutex);
+		/* If ei->is_freed, then the event itself may be too */
+		if (!ei->is_freed)
+			r = entry->callback(name, &mode, &cdata, &fops);
+		else
+			r = -1;
+		mutex_unlock(&eventfs_mutex);
 		if (r <= 0)
 			continue;
 		d = create_file_dentry(ei, i, parent, name, mode, cdata, fops, false);
@@ -819,6 +831,10 @@ static int dcache_readdir_wrapper(struct file *file, struct dir_context *ctx)
  *   data = A pointer to @data, and the callback may replace it, which will
  *         cause the file created to pass the new data to the open() call.
  *   fops = the fops to use for the created file.
+ *
+ * NB. @callback is called while holding internal locks of the eventfs
+ *     system. The callback must not call any code that might also call into
+ *     the tracefs or eventfs system or it will risk creating a deadlock.
  */
 struct eventfs_inode *eventfs_create_dir(const char *name, struct eventfs_inode *parent,
 					 const struct eventfs_entry *entries,
@@ -878,6 +894,8 @@ struct eventfs_inode *eventfs_create_dir(const char *name, struct eventfs_inode
  * @data: The default data to pass to the files (an entry may override it).
  *
  * This function creates the top of the trace event directory.
+ *
+ * See eventfs_create_dir() for use of @entries.
  */
 struct eventfs_inode *eventfs_create_events_dir(const char *name, struct dentry *parent,
 						const struct eventfs_entry *entries,