From: "Steven Rostedt (VMware)" <rostedt@xxxxxxxxxxx> 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> --- kernel/trace/trace_events_hist.c | 6 +++--- 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-) diff --git a/kernel/trace/trace_events_hist.c b/kernel/trace/trace_events_hist.c index 0207aeed31e6..16a9dfc9fffc 100644 --- a/kernel/trace/trace_events_hist.c +++ b/kernel/trace/trace_events_hist.c @@ -1689,7 +1689,9 @@ static struct hist_field *create_hist_field(struct hist_trigger_data *hist_data, 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; hist_field->size = MAX_FILTER_STR_VAL; @@ -4495,8 +4497,6 @@ static inline void add_to_key(char *compound_key, void *key, 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; -- 2.30.2
