CVE-2024-43870perf: Fix event leak upon exit

Official description

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: perf: Fix event leak upon exit When a task is scheduled out, pending sigtrap deliveries are deferred to the target task upon resume to userspace via task_work. However failures while adding an event's callback to the task_work engine are ignored. And since the last call for events exit happen after task work is eventually closed, there is a small window during which pending sigtrap can be queued though ignored, leaking the event refcount addition such as in the following scenario: TASK A ----- do_exit() exit_task_work(tsk); <IRQ> perf_event_overflow() event->pending_sigtrap = pending_id; irq_work_queue(&event->pending_irq); </IRQ> =========> PREEMPTION: TASK A -> TASK B event_sched_out() event->pending_sigtrap = 0; atomic_long_inc_not_zero(&event->refcount) // FAILS: task work has exited task_work_add(&event->pending_task) [...] <IRQ WORK> perf_pending_irq() // early return: event->oncpu = -1 </IRQ WORK> [...] =========> TASK B -> TASK A perf_event_exit_task(tsk) perf_event_exit_event() free_event() WARN(atomic_long_cmpxchg(&event->refcount, 1, 0) != 1) // leak event due to unexpected refcount == 2 As a result the event is never released while the task exits. Fix this with appropriate task_work_add()'s error handling.

Affected packages & fixed versions

Affected products (as reported)

References

• https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/67fad724f1b568b356c1065d50df46e6b30eb2f7
• https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/70882d7fa74f0731492a0d493e8515a4f7131831
• https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/05d3fd599594abf79aad4484bccb2b26e1cb0b51
• https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/3d7a63352a93bdb8a1cdf29606bf617d3ac1c22a
• https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/2fd5ad3f310de22836cdacae919dd99d758a1f1b
• https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2025/01/msg00001.html