linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 1/5] tracing: Prevent kernel oops with corrupted buffer

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Message-Id: <20100126143223.e4332098.akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Date:	Tue, 26 Jan 2010 14:32:23 -0800
From:	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>
To:	Steven Rostedt <rostedt@...dmis.org>
Cc:	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, Ingo Molnar <mingo@...e.hu>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/5] tracing: Prevent kernel oops with corrupted buffer

On Tue, 26 Jan 2010 17:09:24 -0500
Steven Rostedt <rostedt@...dmis.org> wrote:

> From: Steven Rostedt <srostedt@...hat.com>
> 
> If the contents of the ftrace ring buffer gets corrupted and the trace
> file is read, it could create a kernel oops (usualy just killing the user

"usually" ;)

> task thread). This is caused by the checking of the pid in the buffer.
> If the pid is negative, it still references the cmdline cache array,
> which could point to an invalid address.
> 
> The simple fix is to test for negative PIDs.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@...dmis.org>
> ---
>  kernel/trace/trace.c |    5 +++++
>  1 files changed, 5 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/kernel/trace/trace.c b/kernel/trace/trace.c
> index 0df1b0f..eac6875 100644
> --- a/kernel/trace/trace.c
> +++ b/kernel/trace/trace.c
> @@ -951,6 +951,11 @@ void trace_find_cmdline(int pid, char comm[])
>  		return;
>  	}
>  
> +	if (WARN_ON_ONCE(pid < 0)) {
> +		strcpy(comm, "<XXX>");
> +		return;
> +	}
> +
>  	if (pid > PID_MAX_DEFAULT) {
>  		strcpy(comm, "<...>");
>  		return;

But why is it WARN_ON_ONCE()?  That will only fix the problem a single
time.  On the second occurrence, it will oops again.

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