eventfs/tracing: Add callback for release of an eventfs_inode

Synthetic events create and destroy tracefs files when they are created
and removed. The tracing subsystem has its own file descriptor
representing the state of the events attached to the tracefs files.
There's a race between the eventfs files and this file descriptor of the
tracing system where the following can cause an issue:

With two scripts 'A' and 'B' doing:

  Script 'A':
    echo "hello int aaa" > /sys/kernel/tracing/synthetic_events
    while :
    do
      echo 0 > /sys/kernel/tracing/events/synthetic/hello/enable
    done

  Script 'B':
    echo > /sys/kernel/tracing/synthetic_events

Script 'A' creates a synthetic event "hello" and then just writes zero
into its enable file.

Script 'B' removes all synthetic events (including the newly created
"hello" event).

What happens is that the opening of the "enable" file has:

 {
	struct trace_event_file *file = inode->i_private;
	int ret;

	ret = tracing_check_open_get_tr(file->tr);
 [..]

But deleting the events frees the "file" descriptor, and a "use after
free" happens with the dereference at "file->tr".

The file descriptor does have a reference counter, but there needs to be a
way to decrement it from the eventfs when the eventfs_inode is removed
that represents this file descriptor.

Add an optional "release" callback to the eventfs_entry array structure,
that gets called when the eventfs file is about to be removed. This allows
for the creating on the eventfs file to increment the tracing file
descriptor ref counter. When the eventfs file is deleted, it can call the
release function that will call the put function for the tracing file
descriptor.

This will protect the tracing file from being freed while a eventfs file
that references it is being opened.

Link: https://lore.kernel.org/linux-trace-kernel/20240426073410.17154-1-Tze-nan.Wu@mediatek.com/
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/linux-trace-kernel/20240502090315.448cba46@gandalf.local.home

Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Cc: Masami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@kernel.org>
Cc: Mathieu Desnoyers <mathieu.desnoyers@efficios.com>
Fixes: 5790b1fb3d672 ("eventfs: Remove eventfs_file and just use eventfs_inode")
Reported-by: Tze-nan wu <Tze-nan.Wu@mediatek.com>
Tested-by: Tze-nan Wu (吳澤南) <Tze-nan.Wu@mediatek.com>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (Google) <rostedt@goodmis.org>

1 files changed, 12 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/kernel/trace/trace_events.c b/kernel/trace/trace_events.c
index 52f75c36bbca4..6ef29eba90ceb 100644
--- a/kernel/trace/trace_events.c
+++ b/kernel/trace/trace_events.c
@@ -2552,6 +2552,14 @@ static int event_callback(const char *name, umode_t *mode, void **data,
 	return 0;
 }
 
+/* The file is incremented on creation and freeing the enable file decrements it */
+static void event_release(const char *name, void *data)
+{
+	struct trace_event_file *file = data;
+
+	event_file_put(file);
+}
+
 static int
 event_create_dir(struct eventfs_inode *parent, struct trace_event_file *file)
 {
@@ -2566,6 +2574,7 @@ event_create_dir(struct eventfs_inode *parent, struct trace_event_file *file)
 		{
 			.name		= "enable",
 			.callback	= event_callback,
+			.release	= event_release,
 		},
 		{
 			.name		= "filter",
@@ -2634,6 +2643,9 @@ event_create_dir(struct eventfs_inode *parent, struct trace_event_file *file)
 		return ret;
 	}
 
+	/* Gets decremented on freeing of the "enable" file */
+	event_file_get(file);
+
 	return 0;
 }