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| author | Bradley Morgan <include@grrlz.net> | 2026-07-23 21:09:22 +0000 |
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| committer | Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> | 2026-08-05 11:20:13 -0700 |
| commit | 1f58a5335cdd14b3fb5f2a5d3763dee1f5cba1d3 (patch) | |
| tree | cc3da1cc76a8fecb42b5d63693b58ccf4b06229e /tools/perf/scripts/python | |
| parent | dbf0633e42ef30bb6db5ed2f1eccf0411d8a4c57 (diff) | |
taskstats: fix cpumask parsing cutting off the last character
parse() hands nla_strscpy() len as dstsize, and nla_strscpy() copies at
most dstsize - 1 bytes. When the attr payload comes in without a trailing
NUL, srclen == len >= dstsize and the last character of the cpumask string
gets cut off. Register "0-15" and you are silently listening on "0-1",
exit data for the rest never shows up.
The bug only bites when the sender doesn't NUL terminate the payload;
senders that include the NUL were always fine (srclen gets decremented for
the trailing NUL, so srclen < dstsize). Thats probably why this survived
20 years. And the policy is NLA_STRING, not NLA_NUL_STRING, so a payload
without the trailing NUL is legit input here.
Skip the kmalloc/nla_strscpy dance entirely and use nla_strdup(), which
already allocates srclen + 1 and terminates. The nla_len() bounds checks
stay as they were.
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/EC49FE41-7F5F-41E0-A07A-ABEB8ECA514D@grrlz.net
Fixes: f9fd8914c1ac ("[PATCH] per-task delay accounting taskstats interface: control exit data through cpumasks")
Signed-off-by: Bradley Morgan <include@grrlz.net>
Reported-by: Oleg Deomi <oleg.deomi@gmail.com>
Closes: https://lore.kernel.org/CAByWkfZ6b1=3H9pwkz-dDQOs9cZaF-HYQ6b9Yb0=Hq2r1Vv_Pw@mail.gmail.com
Reviewed-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Balbir Singh <bsingharora@gmail.com>
Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
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