event_filter_read/write() are racy, ftrace_event_call can be already
freed by trace_remove_event_call() callers.

1. Shift mutex_lock(event_mutex) from print/apply_event_filter to
   the callers.

2. Change the callers, event_filter_read() and event_filter_write()
   to read i_private under this mutex and abort if it is NULL.

This fixes nothing, but now we can change debugfs_remove("filter")
callers to nullify ->i_private and fix the the problem.

Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov <o...@redhat.com>
---
 kernel/trace/trace_events.c        |   28 +++++++++++++++++++---------
 kernel/trace/trace_events_filter.c |   17 ++++++-----------
 2 files changed, 25 insertions(+), 20 deletions(-)

diff --git a/kernel/trace/trace_events.c b/kernel/trace/trace_events.c
index 39cb049..b5144c4 100644
--- a/kernel/trace/trace_events.c
+++ b/kernel/trace/trace_events.c
@@ -978,24 +978,30 @@ static ssize_t
 event_filter_read(struct file *filp, char __user *ubuf, size_t cnt,
                  loff_t *ppos)
 {
-       struct ftrace_event_call *call = filp->private_data;
+       struct ftrace_event_call *call;
        struct trace_seq *s;
-       int r;
+       int r = -ENODEV;
 
        if (*ppos)
                return 0;
 
        s = kmalloc(sizeof(*s), GFP_KERNEL);
+
        if (!s)
                return -ENOMEM;
 
        trace_seq_init(s);
 
-       print_event_filter(call, s);
-       r = simple_read_from_buffer(ubuf, cnt, ppos, s->buffer, s->len);
+       mutex_lock(&event_mutex);
+       call = event_file_data(filp);
+       if (call)
+               print_event_filter(call, s);
+       mutex_unlock(&event_mutex);
 
-       kfree(s);
+       if (call)
+               r = simple_read_from_buffer(ubuf, cnt, ppos, s->buffer, s->len);
 
+       kfree(s);
        return r;
 }
 
@@ -1003,9 +1009,9 @@ static ssize_t
 event_filter_write(struct file *filp, const char __user *ubuf, size_t cnt,
                   loff_t *ppos)
 {
-       struct ftrace_event_call *call = filp->private_data;
+       struct ftrace_event_call *call;
        char *buf;
-       int err;
+       int err = -ENODEV;
 
        if (cnt >= PAGE_SIZE)
                return -EINVAL;
@@ -1020,13 +1026,17 @@ event_filter_write(struct file *filp, const char __user 
*ubuf, size_t cnt,
        }
        buf[cnt] = '\0';
 
-       err = apply_event_filter(call, buf);
+       mutex_lock(&event_mutex);
+       call = event_file_data(filp);
+       if (call)
+               err = apply_event_filter(call, buf);
+       mutex_unlock(&event_mutex);
+
        free_page((unsigned long) buf);
        if (err < 0)
                return err;
 
        *ppos += cnt;
-
        return cnt;
 }
 
diff --git a/kernel/trace/trace_events_filter.c 
b/kernel/trace/trace_events_filter.c
index 0c7b75a..97daa8c 100644
--- a/kernel/trace/trace_events_filter.c
+++ b/kernel/trace/trace_events_filter.c
@@ -637,17 +637,15 @@ static void append_filter_err(struct filter_parse_state 
*ps,
        free_page((unsigned long) buf);
 }
 
+/* caller must hold event_mutex */
 void print_event_filter(struct ftrace_event_call *call, struct trace_seq *s)
 {
-       struct event_filter *filter;
+       struct event_filter *filter = call->filter;
 
-       mutex_lock(&event_mutex);
-       filter = call->filter;
        if (filter && filter->filter_string)
                trace_seq_printf(s, "%s\n", filter->filter_string);
        else
                trace_seq_puts(s, "none\n");
-       mutex_unlock(&event_mutex);
 }
 
 void print_subsystem_event_filter(struct event_subsystem *system,
@@ -1841,23 +1839,22 @@ static int create_system_filter(struct event_subsystem 
*system,
        return err;
 }
 
+/* caller must hold event_mutex */
 int apply_event_filter(struct ftrace_event_call *call, char *filter_string)
 {
        struct event_filter *filter;
-       int err = 0;
-
-       mutex_lock(&event_mutex);
+       int err;
 
        if (!strcmp(strstrip(filter_string), "0")) {
                filter_disable(call);
                filter = call->filter;
                if (!filter)
-                       goto out_unlock;
+                       return 0;
                RCU_INIT_POINTER(call->filter, NULL);
                /* Make sure the filter is not being used */
                synchronize_sched();
                __free_filter(filter);
-               goto out_unlock;
+               return 0;
        }
 
        err = create_filter(call, filter_string, true, &filter);
@@ -1884,8 +1881,6 @@ int apply_event_filter(struct ftrace_event_call *call, 
char *filter_string)
                        __free_filter(tmp);
                }
        }
-out_unlock:
-       mutex_unlock(&event_mutex);
 
        return err;
 }
-- 
1.5.5.1

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