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Message-ID: <ab35261ac6f392af4cbfec8f8cd690b5db7a0807.camel@kernel.org>
Date:   Mon, 26 Oct 2020 13:49:56 -0500
From:   Tom Zanussi <zanussi@...nel.org>
To:     Steven Rostedt <rostedt@...dmis.org>
Cc:     LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
        Ingo Molnar <mingo@...nel.org>,
        Masami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@...nel.org>,
        Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
        Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@...cle.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2] tracing, synthetic events: Replace buggy strcat()
 with seq_buf operations

Hi Steve,

On Mon, 2020-10-26 at 12:53 -0400, Steven Rostedt wrote:
> From: "Steven Rostedt (VMware)" <rostedt@...dmis.org>
> 
> There was a memory corruption bug happening while running the
> synthetic
> event selftests:
> 
>  kmemleak: Cannot insert 0xffff8c196fa2afe5 into the object search
> tree (overlaps existing)
>  CPU: 5 PID: 6866 Comm: ftracetest Tainted: G        W         5.9.0-
> rc5-test+ #577
>  Hardware name: Hewlett-Packard HP Compaq Pro 6300 SFF/339A, BIOS K01
> v03.03 07/14/2016
>  Call Trace:
>   dump_stack+0x8d/0xc0
>   create_object.cold+0x3b/0x60
>   slab_post_alloc_hook+0x57/0x510
>   ? tracing_map_init+0x178/0x340
>   __kmalloc+0x1b1/0x390
>   tracing_map_init+0x178/0x340
>   event_hist_trigger_func+0x523/0xa40
>   trigger_process_regex+0xc5/0x110
>   event_trigger_write+0x71/0xd0
>   vfs_write+0xca/0x210
>   ksys_write+0x70/0xf0
>   do_syscall_64+0x33/0x40
>   entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x44/0xa9
>  RIP: 0033:0x7fef0a63a487
>  Code: 64 89 02 48 c7 c0 ff ff ff ff eb bb 0f 1f 80 00 00 00 00 f3 0f
> 1e fa 64 8b 04 25 18 00 00 00 85 c0 75 10 b8 01 00 00 00 0f 05 <48>
> 3d 00 f0 ff ff 77 51 c3 48 83 ec 28 48 89 54 24 18 48 89 74 24
>  RSP: 002b:00007fff76f18398 EFLAGS: 00000246 ORIG_RAX:
> 0000000000000001
>  RAX: ffffffffffffffda RBX: 0000000000000039 RCX: 00007fef0a63a487
>  RDX: 0000000000000039 RSI: 000055eb3b26d690 RDI: 0000000000000001
>  RBP: 000055eb3b26d690 R08: 000000000000000a R09: 0000000000000038
>  R10: 000055eb3b2cdb80 R11: 0000000000000246 R12: 0000000000000039
>  R13: 00007fef0a70b500 R14: 0000000000000039 R15: 00007fef0a70b700
>  kmemleak: Kernel memory leak detector disabled
>  kmemleak: Object 0xffff8c196fa2afe0 (size 8):
>  kmemleak:   comm "ftracetest", pid 6866, jiffies 4295082531
>  kmemleak:   min_count = 1
>  kmemleak:   count = 0
>  kmemleak:   flags = 0x1
>  kmemleak:   checksum = 0
>  kmemleak:   backtrace:
>       __kmalloc+0x1b1/0x390
>       tracing_map_init+0x1be/0x340
>       event_hist_trigger_func+0x523/0xa40
>       trigger_process_regex+0xc5/0x110
>       event_trigger_write+0x71/0xd0
>       vfs_write+0xca/0x210
>       ksys_write+0x70/0xf0
>       do_syscall_64+0x33/0x40
>       entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x44/0xa9
> 
> The cause came down to a use of strcat() that was adding an string
> that was
> shorten, but the strcat() did not take that into account.
> 
> strcat() is extremely dangerous as it does not care how big the
> buffer is.
> Replace it with seq_buf operations that prevent the buffer from being
> overwritten if what is being written is bigger than the buffer.
> 
> Fixes: 10819e25799a ("tracing: Handle synthetic event array field
> type checking correctly")
> Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (VMware) <rostedt@...dmis.org>
> ---
> 
> Changes since v1, Dan's scripts detected a double free.
>    Just needed to move, the freeing after the error branch
>    to freeing.
> 

Looks fine to me, thanks for fixing this.

Reviewed-by: Tom Zanussi <zanussi@...nel.org>
Tested-by: Tom Zanussi <zanussi@...nel.org>



>  kernel/trace/trace_events_synth.c | 36 +++++++++++++++++++--------
> ----
>  1 file changed, 22 insertions(+), 14 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/kernel/trace/trace_events_synth.c
> b/kernel/trace/trace_events_synth.c
> index 3212e2c653b3..84b7cab55291 100644
> --- a/kernel/trace/trace_events_synth.c
> +++ b/kernel/trace/trace_events_synth.c
> @@ -585,6 +585,7 @@ static struct synth_field *parse_synth_field(int
> argc, const char **argv,
>  	struct synth_field *field;
>  	const char *prefix = NULL, *field_type = argv[0], *field_name,
> *array;
>  	int len, ret = 0;
> +	struct seq_buf s;
>  	ssize_t size;
>  
>  	if (field_type[0] == ';')
> @@ -630,13 +631,9 @@ static struct synth_field *parse_synth_field(int
> argc, const char **argv,
>  		field_type++;
>  	len = strlen(field_type) + 1;
>  
> -        if (array) {
> -                int l = strlen(array);
> +	if (array)
> +		len += strlen(array);
>  
> -                if (l && array[l - 1] == ';')
> -                        l--;
> -                len += l;
> -        }
>  	if (prefix)
>  		len += strlen(prefix);
>  
> @@ -645,14 +642,18 @@ static struct synth_field
> *parse_synth_field(int argc, const char **argv,
>  		ret = -ENOMEM;
>  		goto free;
>  	}
> +	seq_buf_init(&s, field->type, len);
>  	if (prefix)
> -		strcat(field->type, prefix);
> -	strcat(field->type, field_type);
> +		seq_buf_puts(&s, prefix);
> +	seq_buf_puts(&s, field_type);
>  	if (array) {
> -		strcat(field->type, array);
> -		if (field->type[len - 1] == ';')
> -			field->type[len - 1] = '\0';
> +		seq_buf_puts(&s, array);
> +		if (s.buffer[s.len - 1] == ';')
> +			s.len--;
>  	}
> +	if (WARN_ON_ONCE(!seq_buf_buffer_left(&s)))
> +		goto free;
> +	s.buffer[s.len] = '\0';
>  
>  	size = synth_field_size(field->type);
>  	if (size < 0) {
> @@ -663,14 +664,21 @@ static struct synth_field
> *parse_synth_field(int argc, const char **argv,
>  		if (synth_field_is_string(field->type)) {
>  			char *type;
>  
> -			type = kzalloc(sizeof("__data_loc ") +
> strlen(field->type) + 1, GFP_KERNEL);
> +			len = sizeof("__data_loc ") + strlen(field-
> >type) + 1;
> +			type = kzalloc(len, GFP_KERNEL);
>  			if (!type) {
>  				ret = -ENOMEM;
>  				goto free;
>  			}
>  
> -			strcat(type, "__data_loc ");
> -			strcat(type, field->type);
> +			seq_buf_init(&s, type, len);
> +			seq_buf_puts(&s, "__data_loc ");
> +			seq_buf_puts(&s, field->type);
> +
> +			if (WARN_ON_ONCE(!seq_buf_buffer_left(&s)))
> +				goto free;
> +			s.buffer[s.len] = '\0';
> +
>  			kfree(field->type);
>  			field->type = type;
>  

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