glibc/gmon/tst-mcleanup.c
Simon Kissane bde1218720 gmon: fix memory corruption issues [BZ# 30101]
V2 of this patch fixes an issue in V1, where the state was changed to ON not
OFF at end of _mcleanup. I hadn't noticed that (counterintuitively) ON=0 and
OFF=3, hence zeroing the buffer turned it back on. So set the state to OFF
after the memset.

1. Prevent double free, and reads from unallocated memory, when
   _mcleanup is (incorrectly) called two or more times in a row,
   without an intervening call to __monstartup; with this patch, the
   second and subsequent calls effectively become no-ops instead.
   While setting tos=NULL is minimal fix, safest action is to zero the
   whole gmonparam buffer.

2. Prevent memory leak when __monstartup is (incorrectly) called two
   or more times in a row, without an intervening call to _mcleanup;
   with this patch, the second and subsequent calls effectively become
   no-ops instead.

3. After _mcleanup, treat __moncontrol(1) as __moncontrol(0) instead.
   With zeroing of gmonparam buffer in _mcleanup, this stops the
   state incorrectly being changed to GMON_PROF_ON despite profiling
   actually being off. If we'd just done the minimal fix to _mcleanup
   of setting tos=NULL, there is risk of far worse memory corruption:
   kcount would point to deallocated memory, and the __profil syscall
   would make the kernel write profiling data into that memory,
   which could have since been reallocated to something unrelated.

4. Ensure __moncontrol(0) still turns off profiling even in error
   state. Otherwise, if mcount overflows and sets state to
   GMON_PROF_ERROR, when _mcleanup calls __moncontrol(0), the __profil
   syscall to disable profiling will not be invoked. _mcleanup will
   free the buffer, but the kernel will still be writing profiling
   data into it, potentially corrupted arbitrary memory.

Also adds a test case for (1). Issues (2)-(4) are not feasible to test.

Signed-off-by: Simon Kissane <skissane@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: DJ Delorie <dj@redhat.com>
2023-02-22 21:03:30 -05:00

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/* Test program for repeated invocation of _mcleanup
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/* Intentionally calls _mcleanup() twice: once manually, it will be
called again as an atexit handler. This is incorrect use of the API,
but the point of the test is to make sure we don't crash when the
API is misused in this way. */
#include <sys/gmon.h>
int
main (void)
{
_mcleanup();
return 0;
}