[PATCH v3] tracing/histogram: Fix UAF in destroy_hist_field()

From: Kalesh Singh
Date: Wed Nov 17 2021 - 20:15:55 EST


Calling destroy_hist_field() on an expression will recursively free
any operands associated with the expression. If during expression
parsing the operands of the expression are already set when an error
is encountered, there is no need to explicity free the operands. Doing
so will result in destroy_hist_field() being called twice for the
operands and lead to a use-after-free (UAF) error.

If the operands are associated with the expression, only call
destroy_hist_field() on the expression since the operands will be
recursively freed.

Signed-off-by: Kalesh Singh <kaleshsingh@xxxxxxxxxx>
Fixes: 8b5d46fd7a38 ("tracing/histogram: Optimize division by constants")
Reported-by: kernel test robot <oliver.sang@xxxxxxxxx>
---
kernel/trace/trace_events_hist.c | 41 +++++++++++++++++---------------
1 file changed, 22 insertions(+), 19 deletions(-)

diff --git a/kernel/trace/trace_events_hist.c b/kernel/trace/trace_events_hist.c
index 5ea2c9ec54a6..9555b8e1d1e3 100644
--- a/kernel/trace/trace_events_hist.c
+++ b/kernel/trace/trace_events_hist.c
@@ -2576,28 +2576,27 @@ static struct hist_field *parse_expr(struct hist_trigger_data *hist_data,

/* Split the expression string at the root operator */
if (!sep)
- goto free;
+ return ERR_PTR(-EINVAL);
+
*sep = '\0';
operand1_str = str;
str = sep+1;

/* Binary operator requires both operands */
if (*operand1_str == '\0' || *str == '\0')
- goto free;
+ return ERR_PTR(-EINVAL);

operand_flags = 0;

/* LHS of string is an expression e.g. a+b in a+b+c */
operand1 = parse_expr(hist_data, file, operand1_str, operand_flags, NULL, n_subexprs);
- if (IS_ERR(operand1)) {
- ret = PTR_ERR(operand1);
- operand1 = NULL;
- goto free;
- }
+ if (IS_ERR(operand1))
+ return ERR_CAST(operand1);
+
if (operand1->flags & HIST_FIELD_FL_STRING) {
hist_err(file->tr, HIST_ERR_INVALID_STR_OPERAND, errpos(operand1_str));
ret = -EINVAL;
- goto free;
+ goto free_op1;
}

/* RHS of string is another expression e.g. c in a+b+c */
@@ -2605,13 +2604,12 @@ static struct hist_field *parse_expr(struct hist_trigger_data *hist_data,
operand2 = parse_expr(hist_data, file, str, operand_flags, NULL, n_subexprs);
if (IS_ERR(operand2)) {
ret = PTR_ERR(operand2);
- operand2 = NULL;
- goto free;
+ goto free_op1;
}
if (operand2->flags & HIST_FIELD_FL_STRING) {
hist_err(file->tr, HIST_ERR_INVALID_STR_OPERAND, errpos(str));
ret = -EINVAL;
- goto free;
+ goto free_operands;
}

switch (field_op) {
@@ -2629,12 +2627,12 @@ static struct hist_field *parse_expr(struct hist_trigger_data *hist_data,
break;
default:
ret = -EINVAL;
- goto free;
+ goto free_operands;
}

ret = check_expr_operands(file->tr, operand1, operand2, &var1, &var2);
if (ret)
- goto free;
+ goto free_operands;

operand_flags = var1 ? var1->flags : operand1->flags;
operand2_flags = var2 ? var2->flags : operand2->flags;
@@ -2653,12 +2651,13 @@ static struct hist_field *parse_expr(struct hist_trigger_data *hist_data,
expr = create_hist_field(hist_data, NULL, flags, var_name);
if (!expr) {
ret = -ENOMEM;
- goto free;
+ goto free_operands;
}

operand1->read_once = true;
operand2->read_once = true;

+ /* The operands are now owned and free'd by 'expr' */
expr->operands[0] = operand1;
expr->operands[1] = operand2;

@@ -2669,7 +2668,7 @@ static struct hist_field *parse_expr(struct hist_trigger_data *hist_data,
if (!divisor) {
hist_err(file->tr, HIST_ERR_DIVISION_BY_ZERO, errpos(str));
ret = -EDOM;
- goto free;
+ goto free_expr;
}

/*
@@ -2709,18 +2708,22 @@ static struct hist_field *parse_expr(struct hist_trigger_data *hist_data,
expr->type = kstrdup_const(operand1->type, GFP_KERNEL);
if (!expr->type) {
ret = -ENOMEM;
- goto free;
+ goto free_expr;
}

expr->name = expr_str(expr, 0);
}

return expr;
-free:
- destroy_hist_field(operand1, 0);
+
+free_operands:
destroy_hist_field(operand2, 0);
- destroy_hist_field(expr, 0);
+free_op1:
+ destroy_hist_field(operand1, 0);
+ return ERR_PTR(ret);

+free_expr:
+ destroy_hist_field(expr, 0);
return ERR_PTR(ret);
}


base-commit: 8ab774587903771821b59471cc723bba6d893942
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2.34.0.rc1.387.gb447b232ab-goog