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authorSteven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>2022-01-10 19:55:32 +0300
committerGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>2022-03-08 21:12:32 +0300
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tracing: Add test for user space strings when filtering on string pointers
[ Upstream commit 77360f9bbc7e5e2ab7a2c8b4c0244fbbfcfc6f62 ] Pingfan reported that the following causes a fault: echo "filename ~ \"cpu\"" > events/syscalls/sys_enter_openat/filter echo 1 > events/syscalls/sys_enter_at/enable The reason is that trace event filter treats the user space pointer defined by "filename" as a normal pointer to compare against the "cpu" string. The following bug happened: kvm-03-guest16 login: [72198.026181] BUG: unable to handle page fault for address: 00007fffaae8ef60 #PF: supervisor read access in kernel mode #PF: error_code(0x0001) - permissions violation PGD 80000001008b7067 P4D 80000001008b7067 PUD 2393f1067 PMD 2393ec067 PTE 8000000108f47867 Oops: 0001 [#1] PREEMPT SMP PTI CPU: 1 PID: 1 Comm: systemd Kdump: loaded Not tainted 5.14.0-32.el9.x86_64 #1 Hardware name: Red Hat KVM, BIOS 0.5.1 01/01/2011 RIP: 0010:strlen+0x0/0x20 Code: 48 89 f9 74 09 48 83 c1 01 80 39 00 75 f7 31 d2 44 0f b6 04 16 44 88 04 11 48 83 c2 01 45 84 c0 75 ee c3 0f 1f 80 00 00 00 00 <80> 3f 00 74 10 48 89 f8 48 83 c0 01 80 38 00 75 f7 48 29 f8 c3 31 RSP: 0018:ffffb5b900013e48 EFLAGS: 00010246 RAX: 0000000000000018 RBX: ffff8fc1c49ede00 RCX: 0000000000000000 RDX: 0000000000000020 RSI: ffff8fc1c02d601c RDI: 00007fffaae8ef60 RBP: 00007fffaae8ef60 R08: 0005034f4ddb8ea4 R09: 0000000000000000 R10: ffff8fc1c02d601c R11: 0000000000000000 R12: ffff8fc1c8a6e380 R13: 0000000000000000 R14: ffff8fc1c02d6010 R15: ffff8fc1c00453c0 FS: 00007fa86123db40(0000) GS:ffff8fc2ffd00000(0000) knlGS:0000000000000000 CS: 0010 DS: 0000 ES: 0000 CR0: 0000000080050033 CR2: 00007fffaae8ef60 CR3: 0000000102880001 CR4: 00000000007706e0 DR0: 0000000000000000 DR1: 0000000000000000 DR2: 0000000000000000 DR3: 0000000000000000 DR6: 00000000fffe0ff0 DR7: 0000000000000400 PKRU: 55555554 Call Trace: filter_pred_pchar+0x18/0x40 filter_match_preds+0x31/0x70 ftrace_syscall_enter+0x27a/0x2c0 syscall_trace_enter.constprop.0+0x1aa/0x1d0 do_syscall_64+0x16/0x90 entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x44/0xae RIP: 0033:0x7fa861d88664 The above happened because the kernel tried to access user space directly and triggered a "supervisor read access in kernel mode" fault. Worse yet, the memory could not even be loaded yet, and a SEGFAULT could happen as well. This could be true for kernel space accessing as well. To be even more robust, test both kernel and user space strings. If the string fails to read, then simply have the filter fail. Note, TASK_SIZE is used to determine if the pointer is user or kernel space and the appropriate strncpy_from_kernel/user_nofault() function is used to copy the memory. For some architectures, the compare to TASK_SIZE may always pick user space or kernel space. If it gets it wrong, the only thing is that the filter will fail to match. In the future, this needs to be fixed to have the event denote which should be used. But failing a filter is much better than panicing the machine, and that can be solved later. Link: https://lore.kernel.org/all/20220107044951.22080-1-kernelfans@gmail.com/ Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20220110115532.536088fd@gandalf.local.home Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org> Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Masami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@kernel.org> Cc: Tom Zanussi <zanussi@kernel.org> Reported-by: Pingfan Liu <kernelfans@gmail.com> Tested-by: Pingfan Liu <kernelfans@gmail.com> Fixes: 87a342f5db69d ("tracing/filters: Support filtering for char * strings") Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org> Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sashal@kernel.org>
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@@ -230,6 +230,16 @@ Currently the caret ('^') for an error always appears at the beginning of
the filter string; the error message should still be useful though
even without more accurate position info.
+5.2.1 Filter limitations
+------------------------
+
+If a filter is placed on a string pointer ``(char *)`` that does not point
+to a string on the ring buffer, but instead points to kernel or user space
+memory, then, for safety reasons, at most 1024 bytes of the content is
+copied onto a temporary buffer to do the compare. If the copy of the memory
+faults (the pointer points to memory that should not be accessed), then the
+string compare will be treated as not matching.
+
5.3 Clearing filters
--------------------