powerpc/watchpoints: Track perf single step directly on the breakpoint

There is a bug in the current watchpoint tracking logic, where the
teardown in arch_unregister_hw_breakpoint() uses bp->ctx->task, which it
does not have a reference of and parallel threads may be in the process
of destroying. This was partially addressed in commit fb822e6076d9
("powerpc/hw_breakpoint: Fix oops when destroying hw_breakpoint event"),
but the underlying issue of accessing a struct member in an unknown
state still remained. Syzkaller managed to trigger a null pointer
derefernce due to the race between the task destructor and checking the
pointer and dereferencing it in the loop.

While this null pointer dereference could be fixed by using READ_ONCE
to access the task up front, that just changes the error to manipulating
possbily freed memory.

Instead, the breakpoint logic needs to be reworked to remove any
dependency on a context or task struct during breakpoint removal.

The reason we have this currently is to clear thread.last_hit_ubp. This
member is used to differentiate the perf DAWR single-step sequence from
other causes of single-step, such as userspace just calling
ptrace(PTRACE_SINGLESTEP, ...). We need to differentiate them because,
when the single step interrupt is received, we need to know whether to
re-insert the DAWR breakpoint (perf) or not (ptrace / other).

arch_unregister_hw_breakpoint() needs to clear this information to
prevent dangling pointers to possibly freed memory. These pointers are
dereferenced in single_step_dabr_instruction() without a way to check
their validity.

This patch moves the tracking of this information to the breakpoint
itself. This means we no longer have to do anything special to clean up.

Signed-off-by: Benjamin Gray <bgray@linux.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au>
Link: https://msgid.link/20230801011744.153973-4-bgray@linux.ibm.com

1 files changed, 1 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/arch/powerpc/include/asm/hw_breakpoint.h b/arch/powerpc/include/asm/hw_breakpoint.h
index 84d39fd42f71..66db0147d5b4 100644
--- a/arch/powerpc/include/asm/hw_breakpoint.h
+++ b/arch/powerpc/include/asm/hw_breakpoint.h
@@ -18,6 +18,7 @@ struct arch_hw_breakpoint {
 	u16		len; /* length of the target data symbol */
 	u16		hw_len; /* length programmed in hw */
 	u8		flags;
+	bool		perf_single_step; /* temporarily uninstalled for a perf single step */
 };
 
 /* Note: Don't change the first 6 bits below as they are in the same order