Messages in this thread Patch in this message | | | From | Xiaochen Shen <> | Subject | [PATCH] x86/resctrl: Prevent NULL pointer dereference when reading mondata | Date | Tue, 29 Oct 2019 13:25:02 +0800 |
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When a mon group is being deleted, rdtgrp->flags is set to RDT_DELETED in rdtgroup_rmdir_mon() firstly. The structure of rdtgrp will be freed until rdtgrp->waitcount is dropped to 0 in rdtgroup_kn_unlock() later.
During the window of deleting a mon group, if an application calls rdtgroup_mondata_show() to read mondata under this mon group, 'rdtgrp' returned from rdtgroup_kn_lock_live() is a NULL pointer when rdtgrp->flags is RDT_DELETED. And then 'rdtgrp' is passed in this path: rdtgroup_mondata_show() --> mon_event_read() --> mon_event_count(). Thus it results in NULL pointer dereference in mon_event_count().
Add checking of 'rdtgrp' in rdtgroup_mondata_show(), and return -ENOENT immediately when reading mondata during the window of deleting a mon group.
Fixes: d89b7379015f ("x86/intel_rdt/cqm: Add mon_data") Signed-off-by: Xiaochen Shen <xiaochen.shen@intel.com> Reviewed-by: Fenghua Yu <fenghua.yu@intel.com> Reviewed-by: Tony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com> --- arch/x86/kernel/cpu/resctrl/ctrlmondata.c | 4 ++++ 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+)
diff --git a/arch/x86/kernel/cpu/resctrl/ctrlmondata.c b/arch/x86/kernel/cpu/resctrl/ctrlmondata.c index efbd54cc4e69..055c8613b531 100644 --- a/arch/x86/kernel/cpu/resctrl/ctrlmondata.c +++ b/arch/x86/kernel/cpu/resctrl/ctrlmondata.c @@ -522,6 +522,10 @@ int rdtgroup_mondata_show(struct seq_file *m, void *arg) int ret = 0; rdtgrp = rdtgroup_kn_lock_live(of->kn); + if (!rdtgrp) { + ret = -ENOENT; + goto out; + } md.priv = of->kn->priv; resid = md.u.rid; -- 1.8.3.1
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