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authorSteven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>2025-03-27 19:53:11 -0400
committerSteven Rostedt (Google) <rostedt@goodmis.org>2025-04-01 14:18:41 -0400
commit1bf4f0161e70a33c602732c5e0f0fdb268f130e1 (patch)
tree01f4dc931217c92c722a0a4f5a81c9ff387c0480
parent71be5974fcd2414889072425008b2b2b63e5a231 (diff)
downloadlinux-trace-trace/urgent.tar.gz
tracing: Verify event formats that have "%*p.."trace/urgent
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>
-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 8638b7f7ff85ae..069e92856bdacb 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 999f78d380aee4..1a05fc15335315 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))
);
/*