This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled tracing/user_events: Ensure write index cannot be negative to the 6.3-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-user_events-ensure-write-index-cannot-be-neg.patch and it can be found in the queue-6.3 subdirectory. If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree, please let <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> know about it. commit 68e923db1513c41045534cd31c1486165d432a32 Author: Beau Belgrave <beaub@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Date: Tue Apr 25 15:51:04 2023 -0700 tracing/user_events: Ensure write index cannot be negative [ Upstream commit cd98c93286a30cc4588dfd02453bec63c2f4acf4 ] The write index indicates which event the data is for and accesses a per-file array. The index is passed by user processes during write() calls as the first 4 bytes. Ensure that it cannot be negative by returning -EINVAL to prevent out of bounds accesses. Update ftrace self-test to ensure this occurs properly. Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20230425225107.8525-2-beaub@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Fixes: 7f5a08c79df3 ("user_events: Add minimal support for trace_event into ftrace") Reported-by: Doug Cook <dcook@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Beau Belgrave <beaub@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (Google) <rostedt@xxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sashal@xxxxxxxxxx> diff --git a/kernel/trace/trace_events_user.c b/kernel/trace/trace_events_user.c index 908e8a13c675b..625cab4b9d945 100644 --- a/kernel/trace/trace_events_user.c +++ b/kernel/trace/trace_events_user.c @@ -1398,6 +1398,9 @@ static ssize_t user_events_write_core(struct file *file, struct iov_iter *i) if (unlikely(copy_from_iter(&idx, sizeof(idx), i) != sizeof(idx))) return -EFAULT; + if (idx < 0) + return -EINVAL; + rcu_read_lock_sched(); refs = rcu_dereference_sched(info->refs); diff --git a/tools/testing/selftests/user_events/ftrace_test.c b/tools/testing/selftests/user_events/ftrace_test.c index 404a2713dcae8..1bc26e6476fc3 100644 --- a/tools/testing/selftests/user_events/ftrace_test.c +++ b/tools/testing/selftests/user_events/ftrace_test.c @@ -294,6 +294,11 @@ TEST_F(user, write_events) { ASSERT_NE(-1, writev(self->data_fd, (const struct iovec *)io, 3)); after = trace_bytes(); ASSERT_GT(after, before); + + /* Negative index should fail with EINVAL */ + reg.write_index = -1; + ASSERT_EQ(-1, writev(self->data_fd, (const struct iovec *)io, 3)); + ASSERT_EQ(EINVAL, errno); } TEST_F(user, write_fault) {