linux-kernel - [PATCH] kprobes: use strncpy_from_kernel_nofault() in fetch_store

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Date:   Sat,  6 Jun 2020 20:19:03 +0200
From:   Sven Schnelle <svens@...ux.ibm.com>
To:     Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>
Cc:     Masami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@...nel.org>,
        Christoph Hellwig <hch@....de>, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
        linux-s390@...r.kernel.org, Sven Schnelle <svens@...ux.ibm.com>
Subject: [PATCH] kprobes: use strncpy_from_kernel_nofault() in fetch_store_string()

With the latest linux-next i noticed that some tests in the
ftrace test suites are failing on s390, namely:

[FAIL] Kprobe event symbol argument
[FAIL] Kprobe event with comm arguments

The following doesn't work anymore:

cd /sys/kernel/tracing
echo 'p:testprobe _do_fork comm=$comm ' >kprobe_events
echo 1 >events/kprobes/testprobe/enable
cat trace

it will just show

test.sh-519   [012] ....    18.580625: testprobe: (_do_fork+0x0/0x3c8) comm=(fault)

Looking at the source i see that there are two helpers for reading strings:

fetch_store_string_user() -> read string from user space
fetch_store_string() -> read string from kernel space(?)

but in the end both are using strncpy_from_user_nofault(), but
fetch_store_string() should use strncpy_from_kernel_nofault().

Signed-off-by: Sven Schnelle <svens@...ux.ibm.com>
Acked-by: Masami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@...nel.org>
Acked-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@....de>
---
 kernel/trace/trace_kprobe.c | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/kernel/trace/trace_kprobe.c b/kernel/trace/trace_kprobe.c
index b1f21d558e45..ea8d0b094f1b 100644
--- a/kernel/trace/trace_kprobe.c
+++ b/kernel/trace/trace_kprobe.c
@@ -1278,7 +1278,7 @@ fetch_store_string(unsigned long addr, void *dest, void *base)
 	 * Try to get string again, since the string can be changed while
 	 * probing.
 	 */
-	ret = strncpy_from_user_nofault(__dest, (void *)addr, maxlen);
+	ret = strncpy_from_kernel_nofault(__dest, (void *)addr, maxlen);
 	if (ret >= 0)
 		*(u32 *)dest = make_data_loc(ret, __dest - base);
 
-- 
2.17.1