From 4d11fac941d83509be4e6a21038281d6d96da50c Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Steven Rostedt Date: Thu, 27 Mar 2025 19:53:11 -0400 Subject: [PATCH] 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 Cc: Mathieu Desnoyers 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 Reviewed-by: Libo Chen Tested-by: Libo Chen Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (Google) Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin --- kernel/trace/trace_events.c | 7 +++++++ samples/trace_events/trace-events-sample.h | 8 ++++++-- 2 files changed, 13 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) diff --git a/kernel/trace/trace_events.c b/kernel/trace/trace_events.c index 1a936978c2b1..5f74e9f9c8a7 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 24ec968d481f..06be777b3b14 100644 --- a/samples/trace_events/trace-events-sample.h +++ b/samples/trace_events/trace-events-sample.h @@ -317,7 +317,8 @@ 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: @@ -368,7 +369,10 @@ 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)) ); /*