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Re: perf: use-after-free in perf_release

From Dmitry Vyukov <dvyukov@google.com>
Newsgroups linux.kernel
Subject Re: perf: use-after-free in perf_release
Date 2017-03-06 13:20 +0100
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On Mon, Mar 6, 2017 at 1:13 PM, Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> wrote:
> On Mon, Mar 06, 2017 at 10:57:07AM +0100, Dmitry Vyukov wrote:
>> Hello,
>>
>> I've got the following use-after-free report while running syzkaller
>> fuzzer on 86292b33d4b79ee03e2f43ea0381ef85f077c760. Note that the task
>> is freed right in copy_process due to some error, but it's referenced
>> by another thread in perf subsystem.
>
> Weird... you don't happen to have a reproduction case available?


Unfortunately no. I've looked at both logs that I have and there are
no memory allocation failures preceding the crash (however maybe
somebody used NOWARN?). But probably if you inject an error into
copy_process somewhere after perf_event_init_task, it should reproduce
the bug with KASAN I think.

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perf: use-after-free in perf_release Dmitry Vyukov <dvyukov@google.com> - 2017-03-06 11:00 +0100
  Re: perf: use-after-free in perf_release Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> - 2017-03-06 13:20 +0100
    Re: perf: use-after-free in perf_release Dmitry Vyukov <dvyukov@google.com> - 2017-03-06 13:20 +0100
      Re: perf: use-after-free in perf_release Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> - 2017-03-06 13:30 +0100
        Re: perf: use-after-free in perf_release Dmitry Vyukov <dvyukov@google.com> - 2017-03-06 13:40 +0100
          Re: perf: use-after-free in perf_release Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> - 2017-03-06 13:50 +0100
  Re: perf: use-after-free in perf_release Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> - 2017-03-06 14:30 +0100
    Re: perf: use-after-free in perf_release Dmitry Vyukov <dvyukov@google.com> - 2017-03-06 14:40 +0100
      Re: perf: use-after-free in perf_release Dmitry Vyukov <dvyukov@google.com> - 2017-03-07 10:30 +0100
        Re: perf: use-after-free in perf_release Dmitry Vyukov <dvyukov@google.com> - 2017-03-07 10:50 +0100
          Re: perf: use-after-free in perf_release Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> - 2017-03-07 12:50 +0100
        Re: perf: use-after-free in perf_release Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> - 2017-03-07 11:40 +0100
      Re: perf: use-after-free in perf_release Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> - 2017-03-07 10:50 +0100
    Re: perf: use-after-free in perf_release Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> - 2017-03-07 14:20 +0100
      Re: perf: use-after-free in perf_release Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> - 2017-03-07 15:10 +0100
    Re: perf: use-after-free in perf_release Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com> - 2017-03-07 15:10 +0100
      Re: perf: use-after-free in perf_release Dmitry Vyukov <dvyukov@google.com> - 2017-03-07 15:30 +0100
        Re: perf: use-after-free in perf_release Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> - 2017-03-07 18:40 +0100
        Re: perf: use-after-free in perf_release Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com> - 2017-03-07 18:50 +0100

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