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<title>tracing: Prevent bad count for tracing_cpumask_write</title>
<updated>2025-01-02T09:34:22+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Lizhi Xu</name>
<email>lizhi.xu@windriver.com</email>
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<published>2024-12-16T07:32:38+00:00</published>
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commit 98feccbf32cfdde8c722bc4587aaa60ee5ac33f0 upstream.

If a large count is provided, it will trigger a warning in bitmap_parse_user.
Also check zero for it.

Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Fixes: 9e01c1b74c953 ("cpumask: convert kernel trace functions")
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/20241216073238.2573704-1-lizhi.xu@windriver.com
Reported-by: syzbot+0aecfd34fb878546f3fd@syzkaller.appspotmail.com
Closes: https://syzkaller.appspot.com/bug?extid=0aecfd34fb878546f3fd
Tested-by: syzbot+0aecfd34fb878546f3fd@syzkaller.appspotmail.com
Signed-off-by: Lizhi Xu &lt;lizhi.xu@windriver.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (Google) &lt;rostedt@goodmis.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;
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commit 98feccbf32cfdde8c722bc4587aaa60ee5ac33f0 upstream.

If a large count is provided, it will trigger a warning in bitmap_parse_user.
Also check zero for it.

Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Fixes: 9e01c1b74c953 ("cpumask: convert kernel trace functions")
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/20241216073238.2573704-1-lizhi.xu@windriver.com
Reported-by: syzbot+0aecfd34fb878546f3fd@syzkaller.appspotmail.com
Closes: https://syzkaller.appspot.com/bug?extid=0aecfd34fb878546f3fd
Tested-by: syzbot+0aecfd34fb878546f3fd@syzkaller.appspotmail.com
Signed-off-by: Lizhi Xu &lt;lizhi.xu@windriver.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (Google) &lt;rostedt@goodmis.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;
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<entry>
<title>bpf: Zero index arg error string for dynptr and iter</title>
<updated>2025-01-02T09:34:18+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Kumar Kartikeya Dwivedi</name>
<email>memxor@gmail.com</email>
</author>
<published>2024-12-03T00:22:35+00:00</published>
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[ Upstream commit bd74e238ae6944b462f57ce8752440a011ba4530 ]

Andrii spotted that process_dynptr_func's rejection of incorrect
argument register type will print an error string where argument numbers
are not zero-indexed, unlike elsewhere in the verifier.  Fix this by
subtracting 1 from regno. The same scenario exists for iterator
messages. Fix selftest error strings that match on the exact argument
number while we're at it to ensure clean bisection.

Suggested-by: Andrii Nakryiko &lt;andrii@kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Kumar Kartikeya Dwivedi &lt;memxor@gmail.com&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20241203002235.3776418-1-memxor@gmail.com
Signed-off-by: Alexei Starovoitov &lt;ast@kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin &lt;sashal@kernel.org&gt;
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[ Upstream commit bd74e238ae6944b462f57ce8752440a011ba4530 ]

Andrii spotted that process_dynptr_func's rejection of incorrect
argument register type will print an error string where argument numbers
are not zero-indexed, unlike elsewhere in the verifier.  Fix this by
subtracting 1 from regno. The same scenario exists for iterator
messages. Fix selftest error strings that match on the exact argument
number while we're at it to ensure clean bisection.

Suggested-by: Andrii Nakryiko &lt;andrii@kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Kumar Kartikeya Dwivedi &lt;memxor@gmail.com&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20241203002235.3776418-1-memxor@gmail.com
Signed-off-by: Alexei Starovoitov &lt;ast@kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin &lt;sashal@kernel.org&gt;
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<entry>
<title>tracing/kprobe: Make trace_kprobe's module callback called after jump_label update</title>
<updated>2025-01-02T09:34:16+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Masami Hiramatsu (Google)</name>
<email>mhiramat@kernel.org</email>
</author>
<published>2024-12-11T00:10:55+00:00</published>
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[ Upstream commit d685d55dfc86b1a4bdcec77c3c1f8a83f181264e ]

Make sure the trace_kprobe's module notifer callback function is called
after jump_label's callback is called. Since the trace_kprobe's callback
eventually checks jump_label address during registering new kprobe on
the loading module, jump_label must be updated before this registration
happens.

Link: https://lore.kernel.org/all/173387585556.995044.3157941002975446119.stgit@devnote2/

Fixes: 614243181050 ("tracing/kprobes: Support module init function probing")
Signed-off-by: Masami Hiramatsu (Google) &lt;mhiramat@kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin &lt;sashal@kernel.org&gt;
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[ Upstream commit d685d55dfc86b1a4bdcec77c3c1f8a83f181264e ]

Make sure the trace_kprobe's module notifer callback function is called
after jump_label's callback is called. Since the trace_kprobe's callback
eventually checks jump_label address during registering new kprobe on
the loading module, jump_label must be updated before this registration
happens.

Link: https://lore.kernel.org/all/173387585556.995044.3157941002975446119.stgit@devnote2/

Fixes: 614243181050 ("tracing/kprobes: Support module init function probing")
Signed-off-by: Masami Hiramatsu (Google) &lt;mhiramat@kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin &lt;sashal@kernel.org&gt;
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<entry>
<title>fork: avoid inappropriate uprobe access to invalid mm</title>
<updated>2025-01-02T09:34:10+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Lorenzo Stoakes</name>
<email>lorenzo.stoakes@oracle.com</email>
</author>
<published>2024-12-10T17:24:12+00:00</published>
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[ Upstream commit 8ac662f5da19f5873fdd94c48a5cdb45b2e1b58f ]

If dup_mmap() encounters an issue, currently uprobe is able to access the
relevant mm via the reverse mapping (in build_map_info()), and if we are
very unlucky with a race window, observe invalid XA_ZERO_ENTRY state which
we establish as part of the fork error path.

This occurs because uprobe_write_opcode() invokes anon_vma_prepare() which
in turn invokes find_mergeable_anon_vma() that uses a VMA iterator,
invoking vma_iter_load() which uses the advanced maple tree API and thus
is able to observe XA_ZERO_ENTRY entries added to dup_mmap() in commit
d24062914837 ("fork: use __mt_dup() to duplicate maple tree in
dup_mmap()").

This change was made on the assumption that only process tear-down code
would actually observe (and make use of) these values.  However this very
unlikely but still possible edge case with uprobes exists and
unfortunately does make these observable.

The uprobe operation prevents races against the dup_mmap() operation via
the dup_mmap_sem semaphore, which is acquired via uprobe_start_dup_mmap()
and dropped via uprobe_end_dup_mmap(), and held across
register_for_each_vma() prior to invoking build_map_info() which does the
reverse mapping lookup.

Currently these are acquired and dropped within dup_mmap(), which exposes
the race window prior to error handling in the invoking dup_mm() which
tears down the mm.

We can avoid all this by just moving the invocation of
uprobe_start_dup_mmap() and uprobe_end_dup_mmap() up a level to dup_mm()
and only release this lock once the dup_mmap() operation succeeds or clean
up is done.

This means that the uprobe code can never observe an incompletely
constructed mm and resolves the issue in this case.

Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20241210172412.52995-1-lorenzo.stoakes@oracle.com
Fixes: d24062914837 ("fork: use __mt_dup() to duplicate maple tree in dup_mmap()")
Signed-off-by: Lorenzo Stoakes &lt;lorenzo.stoakes@oracle.com&gt;
Reported-by: syzbot+2d788f4f7cb660dac4b7@syzkaller.appspotmail.com
Closes: https://lore.kernel.org/all/6756d273.050a0220.2477f.003d.GAE@google.com/
Cc: Adrian Hunter &lt;adrian.hunter@intel.com&gt;
Cc: Alexander Shishkin &lt;alexander.shishkin@linux.intel.com&gt;
Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo &lt;acme@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Ian Rogers &lt;irogers@google.com&gt;
Cc: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Jann Horn &lt;jannh@google.com&gt;
Cc: Jiri Olsa &lt;jolsa@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Kan Liang &lt;kan.liang@linux.intel.com&gt;
Cc: Liam R. Howlett &lt;Liam.Howlett@Oracle.com&gt;
Cc: Mark Rutland &lt;mark.rutland@arm.com&gt;
Cc: Masami Hiramatsu &lt;mhiramat@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Namhyung Kim &lt;namhyung@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Oleg Nesterov &lt;oleg@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Peng Zhang &lt;zhangpeng.00@bytedance.com&gt;
Cc: Peter Zijlstra &lt;peterz@infradead.org&gt;
Cc: Vlastimil Babka &lt;vbabka@suse.cz&gt;
Cc: David Hildenbrand &lt;david@redhat.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin &lt;sashal@kernel.org&gt;
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[ Upstream commit 8ac662f5da19f5873fdd94c48a5cdb45b2e1b58f ]

If dup_mmap() encounters an issue, currently uprobe is able to access the
relevant mm via the reverse mapping (in build_map_info()), and if we are
very unlucky with a race window, observe invalid XA_ZERO_ENTRY state which
we establish as part of the fork error path.

This occurs because uprobe_write_opcode() invokes anon_vma_prepare() which
in turn invokes find_mergeable_anon_vma() that uses a VMA iterator,
invoking vma_iter_load() which uses the advanced maple tree API and thus
is able to observe XA_ZERO_ENTRY entries added to dup_mmap() in commit
d24062914837 ("fork: use __mt_dup() to duplicate maple tree in
dup_mmap()").

This change was made on the assumption that only process tear-down code
would actually observe (and make use of) these values.  However this very
unlikely but still possible edge case with uprobes exists and
unfortunately does make these observable.

The uprobe operation prevents races against the dup_mmap() operation via
the dup_mmap_sem semaphore, which is acquired via uprobe_start_dup_mmap()
and dropped via uprobe_end_dup_mmap(), and held across
register_for_each_vma() prior to invoking build_map_info() which does the
reverse mapping lookup.

Currently these are acquired and dropped within dup_mmap(), which exposes
the race window prior to error handling in the invoking dup_mm() which
tears down the mm.

We can avoid all this by just moving the invocation of
uprobe_start_dup_mmap() and uprobe_end_dup_mmap() up a level to dup_mm()
and only release this lock once the dup_mmap() operation succeeds or clean
up is done.

This means that the uprobe code can never observe an incompletely
constructed mm and resolves the issue in this case.

Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20241210172412.52995-1-lorenzo.stoakes@oracle.com
Fixes: d24062914837 ("fork: use __mt_dup() to duplicate maple tree in dup_mmap()")
Signed-off-by: Lorenzo Stoakes &lt;lorenzo.stoakes@oracle.com&gt;
Reported-by: syzbot+2d788f4f7cb660dac4b7@syzkaller.appspotmail.com
Closes: https://lore.kernel.org/all/6756d273.050a0220.2477f.003d.GAE@google.com/
Cc: Adrian Hunter &lt;adrian.hunter@intel.com&gt;
Cc: Alexander Shishkin &lt;alexander.shishkin@linux.intel.com&gt;
Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo &lt;acme@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Ian Rogers &lt;irogers@google.com&gt;
Cc: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Jann Horn &lt;jannh@google.com&gt;
Cc: Jiri Olsa &lt;jolsa@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Kan Liang &lt;kan.liang@linux.intel.com&gt;
Cc: Liam R. Howlett &lt;Liam.Howlett@Oracle.com&gt;
Cc: Mark Rutland &lt;mark.rutland@arm.com&gt;
Cc: Masami Hiramatsu &lt;mhiramat@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Namhyung Kim &lt;namhyung@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Oleg Nesterov &lt;oleg@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Peng Zhang &lt;zhangpeng.00@bytedance.com&gt;
Cc: Peter Zijlstra &lt;peterz@infradead.org&gt;
Cc: Vlastimil Babka &lt;vbabka@suse.cz&gt;
Cc: David Hildenbrand &lt;david@redhat.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin &lt;sashal@kernel.org&gt;
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<entry>
<title>bpf: Fix bpf_get_smp_processor_id() on !CONFIG_SMP</title>
<updated>2025-01-02T09:34:10+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Andrea Righi</name>
<email>arighi@nvidia.com</email>
</author>
<published>2024-12-17T19:58:13+00:00</published>
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[ Upstream commit 23579010cf0a12476e96a5f1acdf78a9c5843657 ]

On x86-64 calling bpf_get_smp_processor_id() in a kernel with CONFIG_SMP
disabled can trigger the following bug, as pcpu_hot is unavailable:

 [    8.471774] BUG: unable to handle page fault for address: 00000000936a290c
 [    8.471849] #PF: supervisor read access in kernel mode
 [    8.471881] #PF: error_code(0x0000) - not-present page

Fix by inlining a return 0 in the !CONFIG_SMP case.

Fixes: 1ae6921009e5 ("bpf: inline bpf_get_smp_processor_id() helper")
Signed-off-by: Andrea Righi &lt;arighi@nvidia.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrii Nakryiko &lt;andrii@kernel.org&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/bpf/20241217195813.622568-1-arighi@nvidia.com
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin &lt;sashal@kernel.org&gt;
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[ Upstream commit 23579010cf0a12476e96a5f1acdf78a9c5843657 ]

On x86-64 calling bpf_get_smp_processor_id() in a kernel with CONFIG_SMP
disabled can trigger the following bug, as pcpu_hot is unavailable:

 [    8.471774] BUG: unable to handle page fault for address: 00000000936a290c
 [    8.471849] #PF: supervisor read access in kernel mode
 [    8.471881] #PF: error_code(0x0000) - not-present page

Fix by inlining a return 0 in the !CONFIG_SMP case.

Fixes: 1ae6921009e5 ("bpf: inline bpf_get_smp_processor_id() helper")
Signed-off-by: Andrea Righi &lt;arighi@nvidia.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrii Nakryiko &lt;andrii@kernel.org&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/bpf/20241217195813.622568-1-arighi@nvidia.com
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin &lt;sashal@kernel.org&gt;
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<entry>
<title>tracing: Check "%s" dereference via the field and not the TP_printk format</title>
<updated>2024-12-27T13:02:16+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Steven Rostedt</name>
<email>rostedt@goodmis.org</email>
</author>
<published>2024-12-17T02:41:22+00:00</published>
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commit afd2627f727b89496d79a6b934a025fc916d4ded upstream.

The TP_printk() portion of a trace event is executed at the time a event
is read from the trace. This can happen seconds, minutes, hours, days,
months, years possibly later since the event was recorded. If the print
format contains a dereference to a string via "%s", and that string was
allocated, there's a chance that string could be freed before it is read
by the trace file.

To protect against such bugs, there are two functions that verify the
event. The first one is test_event_printk(), which is called when the
event is created. It reads the TP_printk() format as well as its arguments
to make sure nothing may be dereferencing a pointer that was not copied
into the ring buffer along with the event. If it is, it will trigger a
WARN_ON().

For strings that use "%s", it is not so easy. The string may not reside in
the ring buffer but may still be valid. Strings that are static and part
of the kernel proper which will not be freed for the life of the running
system, are safe to dereference. But to know if it is a pointer to a
static string or to something on the heap can not be determined until the
event is triggered.

This brings us to the second function that tests for the bad dereferencing
of strings, trace_check_vprintf(). It would walk through the printf format
looking for "%s", and when it finds it, it would validate that the pointer
is safe to read. If not, it would produces a WARN_ON() as well and write
into the ring buffer "[UNSAFE-MEMORY]".

The problem with this is how it used va_list to have vsnprintf() handle
all the cases that it didn't need to check. Instead of re-implementing
vsnprintf(), it would make a copy of the format up to the %s part, and
call vsnprintf() with the current va_list ap variable, where the ap would
then be ready to point at the string in question.

For architectures that passed va_list by reference this was possible. For
architectures that passed it by copy it was not. A test_can_verify()
function was used to differentiate between the two, and if it wasn't
possible, it would disable it.

Even for architectures where this was feasible, it was a stretch to rely
on such a method that is undocumented, and could cause issues later on
with new optimizations of the compiler.

Instead, the first function test_event_printk() was updated to look at
"%s" as well. If the "%s" argument is a pointer outside the event in the
ring buffer, it would find the field type of the event that is the problem
and mark the structure with a new flag called "needs_test". The event
itself will be marked by TRACE_EVENT_FL_TEST_STR to let it be known that
this event has a field that needs to be verified before the event can be
printed using the printf format.

When the event fields are created from the field type structure, the
fields would copy the field type's "needs_test" value.

Finally, before being printed, a new function ignore_event() is called
which will check if the event has the TEST_STR flag set (if not, it
returns false). If the flag is set, it then iterates through the events
fields looking for the ones that have the "needs_test" flag set.

Then it uses the offset field from the field structure to find the pointer
in the ring buffer event. It runs the tests to make sure that pointer is
safe to print and if not, it triggers the WARN_ON() and also adds to the
trace output that the event in question has an unsafe memory access.

The ignore_event() makes the trace_check_vprintf() obsolete so it is
removed.

Link: https://lore.kernel.org/all/CAHk-=wh3uOnqnZPpR0PeLZZtyWbZLboZ7cHLCKRWsocvs9Y7hQ@mail.gmail.com/

Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Cc: Masami Hiramatsu &lt;mhiramat@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Mark Rutland &lt;mark.rutland@arm.com&gt;
Cc: Mathieu Desnoyers &lt;mathieu.desnoyers@efficios.com&gt;
Cc: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Cc: Al Viro &lt;viro@ZenIV.linux.org.uk&gt;
Cc: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/20241217024720.848621576@goodmis.org
Fixes: 5013f454a352c ("tracing: Add check of trace event print fmts for dereferencing pointers")
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (Google) &lt;rostedt@goodmis.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;
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commit afd2627f727b89496d79a6b934a025fc916d4ded upstream.

The TP_printk() portion of a trace event is executed at the time a event
is read from the trace. This can happen seconds, minutes, hours, days,
months, years possibly later since the event was recorded. If the print
format contains a dereference to a string via "%s", and that string was
allocated, there's a chance that string could be freed before it is read
by the trace file.

To protect against such bugs, there are two functions that verify the
event. The first one is test_event_printk(), which is called when the
event is created. It reads the TP_printk() format as well as its arguments
to make sure nothing may be dereferencing a pointer that was not copied
into the ring buffer along with the event. If it is, it will trigger a
WARN_ON().

For strings that use "%s", it is not so easy. The string may not reside in
the ring buffer but may still be valid. Strings that are static and part
of the kernel proper which will not be freed for the life of the running
system, are safe to dereference. But to know if it is a pointer to a
static string or to something on the heap can not be determined until the
event is triggered.

This brings us to the second function that tests for the bad dereferencing
of strings, trace_check_vprintf(). It would walk through the printf format
looking for "%s", and when it finds it, it would validate that the pointer
is safe to read. If not, it would produces a WARN_ON() as well and write
into the ring buffer "[UNSAFE-MEMORY]".

The problem with this is how it used va_list to have vsnprintf() handle
all the cases that it didn't need to check. Instead of re-implementing
vsnprintf(), it would make a copy of the format up to the %s part, and
call vsnprintf() with the current va_list ap variable, where the ap would
then be ready to point at the string in question.

For architectures that passed va_list by reference this was possible. For
architectures that passed it by copy it was not. A test_can_verify()
function was used to differentiate between the two, and if it wasn't
possible, it would disable it.

Even for architectures where this was feasible, it was a stretch to rely
on such a method that is undocumented, and could cause issues later on
with new optimizations of the compiler.

Instead, the first function test_event_printk() was updated to look at
"%s" as well. If the "%s" argument is a pointer outside the event in the
ring buffer, it would find the field type of the event that is the problem
and mark the structure with a new flag called "needs_test". The event
itself will be marked by TRACE_EVENT_FL_TEST_STR to let it be known that
this event has a field that needs to be verified before the event can be
printed using the printf format.

When the event fields are created from the field type structure, the
fields would copy the field type's "needs_test" value.

Finally, before being printed, a new function ignore_event() is called
which will check if the event has the TEST_STR flag set (if not, it
returns false). If the flag is set, it then iterates through the events
fields looking for the ones that have the "needs_test" flag set.

Then it uses the offset field from the field structure to find the pointer
in the ring buffer event. It runs the tests to make sure that pointer is
safe to print and if not, it triggers the WARN_ON() and also adds to the
trace output that the event in question has an unsafe memory access.

The ignore_event() makes the trace_check_vprintf() obsolete so it is
removed.

Link: https://lore.kernel.org/all/CAHk-=wh3uOnqnZPpR0PeLZZtyWbZLboZ7cHLCKRWsocvs9Y7hQ@mail.gmail.com/

Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Cc: Masami Hiramatsu &lt;mhiramat@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Mark Rutland &lt;mark.rutland@arm.com&gt;
Cc: Mathieu Desnoyers &lt;mathieu.desnoyers@efficios.com&gt;
Cc: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Cc: Al Viro &lt;viro@ZenIV.linux.org.uk&gt;
Cc: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/20241217024720.848621576@goodmis.org
Fixes: 5013f454a352c ("tracing: Add check of trace event print fmts for dereferencing pointers")
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (Google) &lt;rostedt@goodmis.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;
</pre>
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</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>tracing: Add "%s" check in test_event_printk()</title>
<updated>2024-12-27T13:02:16+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Steven Rostedt</name>
<email>rostedt@goodmis.org</email>
</author>
<published>2024-12-17T02:41:21+00:00</published>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://git.tavy.me/linux-stable.git/commit/?id=683eccacc02d2eb25d1c34b8fb0363fcc7e08f64'/>
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commit 65a25d9f7ac02e0cf361356e834d1c71d36acca9 upstream.

The test_event_printk() code makes sure that when a trace event is
registered, any dereferenced pointers in from the event's TP_printk() are
pointing to content in the ring buffer. But currently it does not handle
"%s", as there's cases where the string pointer saved in the ring buffer
points to a static string in the kernel that will never be freed. As that
is a valid case, the pointer needs to be checked at runtime.

Currently the runtime check is done via trace_check_vprintf(), but to not
have to replicate everything in vsnprintf() it does some logic with the
va_list that may not be reliable across architectures. In order to get rid
of that logic, more work in the test_event_printk() needs to be done. Some
of the strings can be validated at this time when it is obvious the string
is valid because the string will be saved in the ring buffer content.

Do all the validation of strings in the ring buffer at boot in
test_event_printk(), and make sure that the field of the strings that
point into the kernel are accessible. This will allow adding checks at
runtime that will validate the fields themselves and not rely on paring
the TP_printk() format at runtime.

Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Cc: Masami Hiramatsu &lt;mhiramat@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Mark Rutland &lt;mark.rutland@arm.com&gt;
Cc: Mathieu Desnoyers &lt;mathieu.desnoyers@efficios.com&gt;
Cc: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Cc: Al Viro &lt;viro@ZenIV.linux.org.uk&gt;
Cc: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/20241217024720.685917008@goodmis.org
Fixes: 5013f454a352c ("tracing: Add check of trace event print fmts for dereferencing pointers")
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (Google) &lt;rostedt@goodmis.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;
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commit 65a25d9f7ac02e0cf361356e834d1c71d36acca9 upstream.

The test_event_printk() code makes sure that when a trace event is
registered, any dereferenced pointers in from the event's TP_printk() are
pointing to content in the ring buffer. But currently it does not handle
"%s", as there's cases where the string pointer saved in the ring buffer
points to a static string in the kernel that will never be freed. As that
is a valid case, the pointer needs to be checked at runtime.

Currently the runtime check is done via trace_check_vprintf(), but to not
have to replicate everything in vsnprintf() it does some logic with the
va_list that may not be reliable across architectures. In order to get rid
of that logic, more work in the test_event_printk() needs to be done. Some
of the strings can be validated at this time when it is obvious the string
is valid because the string will be saved in the ring buffer content.

Do all the validation of strings in the ring buffer at boot in
test_event_printk(), and make sure that the field of the strings that
point into the kernel are accessible. This will allow adding checks at
runtime that will validate the fields themselves and not rely on paring
the TP_printk() format at runtime.

Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Cc: Masami Hiramatsu &lt;mhiramat@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Mark Rutland &lt;mark.rutland@arm.com&gt;
Cc: Mathieu Desnoyers &lt;mathieu.desnoyers@efficios.com&gt;
Cc: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Cc: Al Viro &lt;viro@ZenIV.linux.org.uk&gt;
Cc: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/20241217024720.685917008@goodmis.org
Fixes: 5013f454a352c ("tracing: Add check of trace event print fmts for dereferencing pointers")
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (Google) &lt;rostedt@goodmis.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;
</pre>
</div>
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>tracing: Add missing helper functions in event pointer dereference check</title>
<updated>2024-12-27T13:02:16+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Steven Rostedt</name>
<email>rostedt@goodmis.org</email>
</author>
<published>2024-12-17T02:41:20+00:00</published>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://git.tavy.me/linux-stable.git/commit/?id=71a613ceac1ad6235e164aea34abcddb258296af'/>
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commit 917110481f6bc1c96b1e54b62bb114137fbc6d17 upstream.

The process_pointer() helper function looks to see if various trace event
macros are used. These macros are for storing data in the event. This
makes it safe to dereference as the dereference will then point into the
event on the ring buffer where the content of the data stays with the
event itself.

A few helper functions were missing. Those were:

  __get_rel_dynamic_array()
  __get_dynamic_array_len()
  __get_rel_dynamic_array_len()
  __get_rel_sockaddr()

Also add a helper function find_print_string() to not need to use a middle
man variable to test if the string exists.

Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Cc: Masami Hiramatsu &lt;mhiramat@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Mark Rutland &lt;mark.rutland@arm.com&gt;
Cc: Mathieu Desnoyers &lt;mathieu.desnoyers@efficios.com&gt;
Cc: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Cc: Al Viro &lt;viro@ZenIV.linux.org.uk&gt;
Cc: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/20241217024720.521836792@goodmis.org
Fixes: 5013f454a352c ("tracing: Add check of trace event print fmts for dereferencing pointers")
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (Google) &lt;rostedt@goodmis.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;
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commit 917110481f6bc1c96b1e54b62bb114137fbc6d17 upstream.

The process_pointer() helper function looks to see if various trace event
macros are used. These macros are for storing data in the event. This
makes it safe to dereference as the dereference will then point into the
event on the ring buffer where the content of the data stays with the
event itself.

A few helper functions were missing. Those were:

  __get_rel_dynamic_array()
  __get_dynamic_array_len()
  __get_rel_dynamic_array_len()
  __get_rel_sockaddr()

Also add a helper function find_print_string() to not need to use a middle
man variable to test if the string exists.

Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Cc: Masami Hiramatsu &lt;mhiramat@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Mark Rutland &lt;mark.rutland@arm.com&gt;
Cc: Mathieu Desnoyers &lt;mathieu.desnoyers@efficios.com&gt;
Cc: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Cc: Al Viro &lt;viro@ZenIV.linux.org.uk&gt;
Cc: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/20241217024720.521836792@goodmis.org
Fixes: 5013f454a352c ("tracing: Add check of trace event print fmts for dereferencing pointers")
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (Google) &lt;rostedt@goodmis.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;
</pre>
</div>
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>tracing: Fix test_event_printk() to process entire print argument</title>
<updated>2024-12-27T13:02:16+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Steven Rostedt</name>
<email>rostedt@goodmis.org</email>
</author>
<published>2024-12-17T02:41:19+00:00</published>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://git.tavy.me/linux-stable.git/commit/?id=3985cd30472a6a67bfe3f0b42ad23b59fa824033'/>
<id>3985cd30472a6a67bfe3f0b42ad23b59fa824033</id>
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commit a6629626c584200daf495cc9a740048b455addcd upstream.

The test_event_printk() analyzes print formats of trace events looking for
cases where it may dereference a pointer that is not in the ring buffer
which can possibly be a bug when the trace event is read from the ring
buffer and the content of that pointer no longer exists.

The function needs to accurately go from one print format argument to the
next. It handles quotes and parenthesis that may be included in an
argument. When it finds the start of the next argument, it uses a simple
"c = strstr(fmt + i, ',')" to find the end of that argument!

In order to include "%s" dereferencing, it needs to process the entire
content of the print format argument and not just the content of the first
',' it finds. As there may be content like:

 ({ const char *saved_ptr = trace_seq_buffer_ptr(p); static const char
   *access_str[] = { "---", "--x", "w--", "w-x", "-u-", "-ux", "wu-", "wux"
   }; union kvm_mmu_page_role role; role.word = REC-&gt;role;
   trace_seq_printf(p, "sp gen %u gfn %llx l%u %u-byte q%u%s %s%s" " %snxe
   %sad root %u %s%c", REC-&gt;mmu_valid_gen, REC-&gt;gfn, role.level,
   role.has_4_byte_gpte ? 4 : 8, role.quadrant, role.direct ? " direct" : "",
   access_str[role.access], role.invalid ? " invalid" : "", role.efer_nx ? ""
   : "!", role.ad_disabled ? "!" : "", REC-&gt;root_count, REC-&gt;unsync ?
   "unsync" : "sync", 0); saved_ptr; })

Which is an example of a full argument of an existing event. As the code
already handles finding the next print format argument, process the
argument at the end of it and not the start of it. This way it has both
the start of the argument as well as the end of it.

Add a helper function "process_pointer()" that will do the processing during
the loop as well as at the end. It also makes the code cleaner and easier
to read.

Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Cc: Masami Hiramatsu &lt;mhiramat@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Mark Rutland &lt;mark.rutland@arm.com&gt;
Cc: Mathieu Desnoyers &lt;mathieu.desnoyers@efficios.com&gt;
Cc: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Cc: Al Viro &lt;viro@ZenIV.linux.org.uk&gt;
Cc: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/20241217024720.362271189@goodmis.org
Fixes: 5013f454a352c ("tracing: Add check of trace event print fmts for dereferencing pointers")
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (Google) &lt;rostedt@goodmis.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;
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commit a6629626c584200daf495cc9a740048b455addcd upstream.

The test_event_printk() analyzes print formats of trace events looking for
cases where it may dereference a pointer that is not in the ring buffer
which can possibly be a bug when the trace event is read from the ring
buffer and the content of that pointer no longer exists.

The function needs to accurately go from one print format argument to the
next. It handles quotes and parenthesis that may be included in an
argument. When it finds the start of the next argument, it uses a simple
"c = strstr(fmt + i, ',')" to find the end of that argument!

In order to include "%s" dereferencing, it needs to process the entire
content of the print format argument and not just the content of the first
',' it finds. As there may be content like:

 ({ const char *saved_ptr = trace_seq_buffer_ptr(p); static const char
   *access_str[] = { "---", "--x", "w--", "w-x", "-u-", "-ux", "wu-", "wux"
   }; union kvm_mmu_page_role role; role.word = REC-&gt;role;
   trace_seq_printf(p, "sp gen %u gfn %llx l%u %u-byte q%u%s %s%s" " %snxe
   %sad root %u %s%c", REC-&gt;mmu_valid_gen, REC-&gt;gfn, role.level,
   role.has_4_byte_gpte ? 4 : 8, role.quadrant, role.direct ? " direct" : "",
   access_str[role.access], role.invalid ? " invalid" : "", role.efer_nx ? ""
   : "!", role.ad_disabled ? "!" : "", REC-&gt;root_count, REC-&gt;unsync ?
   "unsync" : "sync", 0); saved_ptr; })

Which is an example of a full argument of an existing event. As the code
already handles finding the next print format argument, process the
argument at the end of it and not the start of it. This way it has both
the start of the argument as well as the end of it.

Add a helper function "process_pointer()" that will do the processing during
the loop as well as at the end. It also makes the code cleaner and easier
to read.

Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Cc: Masami Hiramatsu &lt;mhiramat@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Mark Rutland &lt;mark.rutland@arm.com&gt;
Cc: Mathieu Desnoyers &lt;mathieu.desnoyers@efficios.com&gt;
Cc: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Cc: Al Viro &lt;viro@ZenIV.linux.org.uk&gt;
Cc: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/20241217024720.362271189@goodmis.org
Fixes: 5013f454a352c ("tracing: Add check of trace event print fmts for dereferencing pointers")
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (Google) &lt;rostedt@goodmis.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;
</pre>
</div>
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>fgraph: Still initialize idle shadow stacks when starting</title>
<updated>2024-12-27T13:02:15+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Steven Rostedt</name>
<email>rostedt@goodmis.org</email>
</author>
<published>2024-12-11T18:53:35+00:00</published>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://git.tavy.me/linux-stable.git/commit/?id=52f46047031f88325c45e6058fb74f880d9d40f4'/>
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commit cc252bb592638e0f7aea40d580186c36d89526b8 upstream.

A bug was discovered where the idle shadow stacks were not initialized
for offline CPUs when starting function graph tracer, and when they came
online they were not traced due to the missing shadow stack. To fix
this, the idle task shadow stack initialization was moved to using the
CPU hotplug callbacks. But it removed the initialization when the
function graph was enabled. The problem here is that the hotplug
callbacks are called when the CPUs come online, but the idle shadow
stack initialization only happens if function graph is currently
active. This caused the online CPUs to not get their shadow stack
initialized.

The idle shadow stack initialization still needs to be done when the
function graph is registered, as they will not be allocated if function
graph is not registered.

Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Cc: Masami Hiramatsu &lt;mhiramat@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Mathieu Desnoyers &lt;mathieu.desnoyers@efficios.com&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/20241211135335.094ba282@batman.local.home
Fixes: 2c02f7375e65 ("fgraph: Use CPU hotplug mechanism to initialize idle shadow stacks")
Reported-by: Linus Walleij &lt;linus.walleij@linaro.org&gt;
Tested-by: Linus Walleij &lt;linus.walleij@linaro.org&gt;
Closes: https://lore.kernel.org/all/CACRpkdaTBrHwRbbrphVy-=SeDz6MSsXhTKypOtLrTQ+DgGAOcQ@mail.gmail.com/
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (Google) &lt;rostedt@goodmis.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;
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commit cc252bb592638e0f7aea40d580186c36d89526b8 upstream.

A bug was discovered where the idle shadow stacks were not initialized
for offline CPUs when starting function graph tracer, and when they came
online they were not traced due to the missing shadow stack. To fix
this, the idle task shadow stack initialization was moved to using the
CPU hotplug callbacks. But it removed the initialization when the
function graph was enabled. The problem here is that the hotplug
callbacks are called when the CPUs come online, but the idle shadow
stack initialization only happens if function graph is currently
active. This caused the online CPUs to not get their shadow stack
initialized.

The idle shadow stack initialization still needs to be done when the
function graph is registered, as they will not be allocated if function
graph is not registered.

Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Cc: Masami Hiramatsu &lt;mhiramat@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Mathieu Desnoyers &lt;mathieu.desnoyers@efficios.com&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/20241211135335.094ba282@batman.local.home
Fixes: 2c02f7375e65 ("fgraph: Use CPU hotplug mechanism to initialize idle shadow stacks")
Reported-by: Linus Walleij &lt;linus.walleij@linaro.org&gt;
Tested-by: Linus Walleij &lt;linus.walleij@linaro.org&gt;
Closes: https://lore.kernel.org/all/CACRpkdaTBrHwRbbrphVy-=SeDz6MSsXhTKypOtLrTQ+DgGAOcQ@mail.gmail.com/
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (Google) &lt;rostedt@goodmis.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;
</pre>
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