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authorSteven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>2025-03-27 19:53:11 -0400
committerGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>2025-05-02 07:58:52 +0200
commit03127354027508d076073b020d3070990fd6a958 (patch)
tree8ec4efe094636672dbefb60557e6883a4cf3016c
parent0b603e77597959a97c66b1df0402e1e7fb4886ee (diff)
tracing: Verify event formats that have "%*p.."
[ Upstream commit ea8d7647f9ddf1f81e2027ed305299797299aa03 ] The trace event verifier checks the formats of trace events to make sure that they do not point at memory that is not in the trace event itself or in data that will never be freed. If an event references data that was allocated when the event triggered and that same data is freed before the event is read, then the kernel can crash by reading freed memory. The verifier runs at boot up (or module load) and scans the print formats of the events and checks their arguments to make sure that dereferenced pointers are safe. If the format uses "%*p.." the verifier will ignore it, and that could be dangerous. Cover this case as well. Also add to the sample code a use case of "%*pbl". Link: https://lore.kernel.org/all/bcba4d76-2c3f-4d11-baf0-02905db953dd@oracle.com/ Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org Cc: Masami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@kernel.org> Cc: Mathieu Desnoyers <mathieu.desnoyers@efficios.com> Fixes: 5013f454a352c ("tracing: Add check of trace event print fmts for dereferencing pointers") Link: https://lore.kernel.org/20250327195311.2d89ec66@gandalf.local.home Reported-by: Libo Chen <libo.chen@oracle.com> Reviewed-by: Libo Chen <libo.chen@oracle.com> Tested-by: Libo Chen <libo.chen@oracle.com> Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (Google) <rostedt@goodmis.org> Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sashal@kernel.org>
-rw-r--r--kernel/trace/trace_events.c7
-rw-r--r--samples/trace_events/trace-events-sample.h8
2 files changed, 13 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/kernel/trace/trace_events.c b/kernel/trace/trace_events.c
index 11dea25ef880..15fb255733fb 100644
--- a/kernel/trace/trace_events.c
+++ b/kernel/trace/trace_events.c
@@ -470,6 +470,7 @@ static void test_event_printk(struct trace_event_call *call)
case '%':
continue;
case 'p':
+ do_pointer:
/* Find dereferencing fields */
switch (fmt[i + 1]) {
case 'B': case 'R': case 'r':
@@ -498,6 +499,12 @@ static void test_event_printk(struct trace_event_call *call)
continue;
if (fmt[i + j] == '*') {
star = true;
+ /* Handle %*pbl case */
+ if (!j && fmt[i + 1] == 'p') {
+ arg++;
+ i++;
+ goto do_pointer;
+ }
continue;
}
if ((fmt[i + j] == 's')) {
diff --git a/samples/trace_events/trace-events-sample.h b/samples/trace_events/trace-events-sample.h
index 999f78d380ae..1a05fc153353 100644
--- a/samples/trace_events/trace-events-sample.h
+++ b/samples/trace_events/trace-events-sample.h
@@ -319,7 +319,8 @@ TRACE_EVENT(foo_bar,
__assign_cpumask(cpum, cpumask_bits(mask));
),
- TP_printk("foo %s %d %s %s %s %s %s %s (%s) (%s) %s", __entry->foo, __entry->bar,
+ TP_printk("foo %s %d %s %s %s %s %s %s (%s) (%s) %s [%d] %*pbl",
+ __entry->foo, __entry->bar,
/*
* Notice here the use of some helper functions. This includes:
@@ -370,7 +371,10 @@ TRACE_EVENT(foo_bar,
__get_str(str), __get_str(lstr),
__get_bitmask(cpus), __get_cpumask(cpum),
- __get_str(vstr))
+ __get_str(vstr),
+ __get_dynamic_array_len(cpus),
+ __get_dynamic_array_len(cpus),
+ __get_dynamic_array(cpus))
);
/*