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Message-ID: <20250905184456.084d1ff3@gandalf.local.home>
Date: Fri, 5 Sep 2025 18:44:56 -0400
From: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@...dmis.org>
To: Wang Liang <wangliang74@...wei.com>
Cc: <mhiramat@...nel.org>, <mathieu.desnoyers@...icios.com>,
 <tglozar@...hat.com>, <yuehaibing@...wei.com>,
 <zhangchangzhong@...wei.com>, <linux-trace-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
 <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH -next] tracing/osnoise: fix null-ptr-deref in
 bitmap_parselist

On Fri, 5 Sep 2025 11:25:44 +0800
Wang Liang <wangliang74@...wei.com> wrote:

Hi Wang,

FYI, the tracincg subsystem requires capital subject:

  tracing/osnoise: Fix null-ptr-deref in bitmap_parselist()

And parenthesis for function names.

> A crash was observed with the following output:
> 
> BUG: kernel NULL pointer dereference, address: 0000000000000010
> Oops: Oops: 0000 [#1] SMP NOPTI
> CPU: 2 UID: 0 PID: 92 Comm: osnoise_cpus Not tainted 6.17.0-rc4-00201-gd69eb204c255 #138 PREEMPT(voluntary)
> RIP: 0010:bitmap_parselist+0x53/0x3e0
> Call Trace:
>  <TASK>
>  osnoise_cpus_write+0x7a/0x190
>  vfs_write+0xf8/0x410
>  ? do_sys_openat2+0x88/0xd0
>  ksys_write+0x60/0xd0
>  do_syscall_64+0xa4/0x260
>  entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x77/0x7f
>  </TASK>
> 
> This issue can be reproduced by below code:
> 
> fd=open("/sys/kernel/debug/tracing/osnoise/cpus", O_WRONLY);
> write(fd, "0-2", 0);
> 
> When user pass 'count=0' to osnoise_cpus_write(), kmalloc() will return
> ZERO_SIZE_PTR (16) and cpulist_parse() treat it as a normal value, which
> trigger the null pointer dereference. Add check for the parameter 'count'.
> 
> Fixes: 17f89102fe23 ("tracing/osnoise: Allow arbitrarily long CPU string")
> Signed-off-by: Wang Liang <wangliang74@...wei.com>
> ---
>  kernel/trace/trace_osnoise.c | 3 +++
>  1 file changed, 3 insertions(+)
> 
> diff --git a/kernel/trace/trace_osnoise.c b/kernel/trace/trace_osnoise.c
> index fd259da0aa64..edf5178d0317 100644
> --- a/kernel/trace/trace_osnoise.c
> +++ b/kernel/trace/trace_osnoise.c
> @@ -2322,6 +2322,9 @@ osnoise_cpus_write(struct file *filp, const char __user *ubuf, size_t count,
>  	int running, err;
>  	char *buf __free(kfree) = NULL;
>  
> +	if (count < 1)
> +		return -EINVAL;

Sending a count of 0 is not invalid. This should simply return 0;

-- Steve

> +
>  	buf = kmalloc(count, GFP_KERNEL);
>  	if (!buf)
>  		return -ENOMEM;


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