From: Donggeun Yoo <donggeunyoo.kernel@gmail.com>
To: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>,
Masami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@kernel.org>
Cc: Mathieu Desnoyers <mathieu.desnoyers@efficios.com>,
Tom Zanussi <zanussi@kernel.org>,
linux-trace-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
Donggeun Yoo <donggeunyoo.kernel@gmail.com>,
stable@vger.kernel.org
Subject: [PATCH v2 2/2] tracing: Fix NULL dereference when copying keys for a field variable
Date: Mon, 14 Sep 2026 05:31:29 +0900 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20260913203129.941270-3-donggeunyoo.kernel@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20260913203129.941270-1-donggeunyoo.kernel@gmail.com>
In event_hist_trigger_parse() where it needs to create actions like
"onmatch", it calls:
event_hist_trigger_parse() {
create_actions() {
action_create() {
trace_action_create() {
trace_action_create_field_var() {
create_field_var_hist()
Where create_field_var_hist() does a loop on the hist_data
representing the keys. The issue is, if the keys uses one of the
pseudo field types (like common_cpu), the hist_data field element
will have NULL for its field member causing a NULL pointer
dereference when accessing the key_field->field->name.
# echo 'hist:keys=common_cpu:ts0=common_timestamp.usecs' > \
events/sched/sched_waking/trigger
# echo 'my_synth u64 lat; int prio' > synthetic_events
# echo 'hist:keys=common_cpu:wakeup_lat=common_timestamp.usecs-$ts0:\
onmatch(sched.sched_waking).my_synth($wakeup_lat,prio)' > \
events/sched/sched_switch/trigger
KASAN: null-ptr-deref in range [0x0000000000000010-0x0000000000000017]
RIP: 0010:create_field_var_hist+0x771/0x1380
Call Trace:
trace_action_create_field_var+0x360/0x600
trace_action_create+0x393/0xe80
event_hist_trigger_parse+0x3e47/0x69e0
trigger_process_regex+0x1a6/0x250
event_trigger_write+0xce/0x160
Instead of accessing it directly, use the proper handler
expr_field_str() to get the name.
A .buckets key needs the previous patch to render, so apply that first.
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Fixes: 02205a6752f2 ("tracing: Add support for 'field variables'")
Signed-off-by: Donggeun Yoo <donggeunyoo.kernel@gmail.com>
Assisted-by: Claude:claude-fable-5
---
kernel/trace/trace_events_hist.c | 2 +-
1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
diff --git a/kernel/trace/trace_events_hist.c b/kernel/trace/trace_events_hist.c
index 9d7ce01fda36..b43b83d7c6f3 100644
--- a/kernel/trace/trace_events_hist.c
+++ b/kernel/trace/trace_events_hist.c
@@ -3097,7 +3097,7 @@ create_field_var_hist(struct hist_trigger_data *target_hist_data,
key_field = hist_data->fields[i];
if (!first)
seq_buf_putc(&s, ',');
- seq_buf_puts(&s, key_field->field->name);
+ expr_field_str(key_field, &s);
first = false;
}
--
2.53.0
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2026-09-13 20:31 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2026-09-13 20:31 [PATCH v2 0/2] tracing: Fix NULL dereference when copying keys for a field variable Donggeun Yoo
2026-09-13 20:31 ` [PATCH v2 1/2] tracing: Add the bucket size to expr_field_str() Donggeun Yoo
2026-09-13 20:45 ` sashiko-bot
2026-09-13 20:31 ` Donggeun Yoo [this message]
2026-09-13 20:43 ` [PATCH v2 2/2] tracing: Fix NULL dereference when copying keys for a field variable sashiko-bot
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