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authorSteven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>2025-03-27 19:53:11 -0400
committerGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>2025-04-10 14:42:05 +0200
commit04b80d45ecfaf780981d6582899e3ab205e4aa08 (patch)
treeb95c3b9d58f08868982cbc999f596c4bd42400a7
parent5e3671797c9a0cfe6e3237f1d72a4eb57473b49e (diff)
tracing: Verify event formats that have "%*p.."
commit ea8d7647f9ddf1f81e2027ed305299797299aa03 upstream. 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: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.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 4bb16d6f2d6f..44d854952250 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))
);
/*