This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled
tracing: Do not reference char * as a string in histograms
to the 4.9-stable tree which can be found at:
http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/stable/stable-queue.git;a=summary
The filename of the patch is:
tracing-do-not-reference-char-as-a-string-in-histograms.patch
and it can be found in the queue-4.9 subdirectory.
If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree,
please let <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> know about it.
>From 704adfb5a9978462cd861f170201ae2b5e3d3a80 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: "Steven Rostedt (VMware)" <rostedt@xxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Thu, 15 Jul 2021 00:02:06 -0400
Subject: tracing: Do not reference char * as a string in histograms
From: Steven Rostedt (VMware) <rostedt@xxxxxxxxxxx>
commit 704adfb5a9978462cd861f170201ae2b5e3d3a80 upstream.
The histogram logic was allowing events with char * pointers to be used as
normal strings. But it was easy to crash the kernel with:
# echo 'hist:keys=filename' > events/syscalls/sys_enter_openat/trigger
And open some files, and boom!
BUG: unable to handle page fault for address: 00007f2ced0c3280
#PF: supervisor read access in kernel mode
#PF: error_code(0x0000) - not-present page
PGD 1173fa067 P4D 1173fa067 PUD 1171b6067 PMD 1171dd067 PTE 0
Oops: 0000 [#1] PREEMPT SMP
CPU: 6 PID: 1810 Comm: cat Not tainted 5.13.0-rc5-test+ #61
Hardware name: Hewlett-Packard HP Compaq Pro 6300 SFF/339A, BIOS K01
v03.03 07/14/2016
RIP: 0010:strlen+0x0/0x20
Code: f6 82 80 2a 0b a9 20 74 11 0f b6 50 01 48 83 c0 01 f6 82 80 2a 0b
a9 20 75 ef c3 66 66 2e 0f 1f 84 00 00 00 00 00 0f 1f 40 00 <80> 3f 00 74
10 48 89 f8 48 83 c0 01 80 38 00 75 f7 48 29 f8 c3
RSP: 0018:ffffbdbf81567b50 EFLAGS: 00010246
RAX: 0000000000000003 RBX: ffff93815cdb3800 RCX: ffff9382401a22d0
RDX: 0000000000000100 RSI: 0000000000000000 RDI: 00007f2ced0c3280
RBP: 0000000000000100 R08: ffff9382409ff074 R09: ffffbdbf81567c98
R10: ffff9382409ff074 R11: 0000000000000000 R12: ffff9382409ff074
R13: 0000000000000001 R14: ffff93815a744f00 R15: 00007f2ced0c3280
FS: 00007f2ced0f8580(0000) GS:ffff93825a800000(0000)
knlGS:0000000000000000
CS: 0010 DS: 0000 ES: 0000 CR0: 0000000080050033
CR2: 00007f2ced0c3280 CR3: 0000000107069005 CR4: 00000000001706e0
Call Trace:
event_hist_trigger+0x463/0x5f0
? find_held_lock+0x32/0x90
? sched_clock_cpu+0xe/0xd0
? lock_release+0x155/0x440
? kernel_init_free_pages+0x6d/0x90
? preempt_count_sub+0x9b/0xd0
? kernel_init_free_pages+0x6d/0x90
? get_page_from_freelist+0x12c4/0x1680
? __rb_reserve_next+0xe5/0x460
? ring_buffer_lock_reserve+0x12a/0x3f0
event_triggers_call+0x52/0xe0
ftrace_syscall_enter+0x264/0x2c0
syscall_trace_enter.constprop.0+0x1ee/0x210
do_syscall_64+0x1c/0x80
entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x44/0xae
Where it triggered a fault on strlen(key) where key was the filename.
The reason is that filename is a char * to user space, and the histogram
code just blindly dereferenced it, with obvious bad results.
I originally tried to use strncpy_from_user/kernel_nofault() but found
that there's other places that its dereferenced and not worth the effort.
Just do not allow "char *" to act like strings.
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20210715000206.025df9d2@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@xxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Masami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@xxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Tzvetomir Stoyanov <tz.stoyanov@xxxxxxxxx>
Cc: stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Acked-by: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@xxxxxxxxxx>
Acked-by: Tom Zanussi <zanussi@xxxxxxxxxx>
Fixes: 79e577cbce4c4 ("tracing: Support string type key properly")
Fixes: 5967bd5c4239 ("tracing: Let filter_assign_type() detect FILTER_PTR_STRING")
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (VMware) <rostedt@xxxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
kernel/trace/trace_events_hist.c | 6 +++---
1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)
--- a/kernel/trace/trace_events_hist.c
+++ b/kernel/trace/trace_events_hist.c
@@ -374,7 +374,9 @@ static struct hist_field *create_hist_fi
if (WARN_ON_ONCE(!field))
goto out;
- if (is_string_field(field)) {
+ /* Pointers to strings are just pointers and dangerous to dereference */
+ if (is_string_field(field) &&
+ (field->filter_type != FILTER_PTR_STRING)) {
flags |= HIST_FIELD_FL_STRING;
if (field->filter_type == FILTER_STATIC_STRING)
@@ -863,8 +865,6 @@ static inline void add_to_key(char *comp
field = key_field->field;
if (field->filter_type == FILTER_DYN_STRING)
size = *(u32 *)(rec + field->offset) >> 16;
- else if (field->filter_type == FILTER_PTR_STRING)
- size = strlen(key);
else if (field->filter_type == FILTER_STATIC_STRING)
size = field->size;
Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from rostedt@xxxxxxxxxxx are
queue-4.9/tracing-do-not-reference-char-as-a-string-in-histograms.patch
queue-4.9/seq_buf-fix-overflow-in-seq_buf_putmem_hex.patch
queue-4.9/seq_buf-make-trace_seq_putmem_hex-support-data-longer-than-8.patch
