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From: Lee Jones <lee@kernel.org>
To: lee@kernel.org, Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>,
	Masami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@kernel.org>,
	Mathieu Desnoyers <mathieu.desnoyers@efficios.com>,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-trace-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Subject: [PATCH] tracing/histograms: Reject non-stacktrace fields for synthetic stacktrace fields
Date: Mon, 12 Oct 2026 15:58:05 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20261012155805.1103972-1-lee@kernel.org> (raw)

In check_synth_field(), when a synthetic event field is a stacktrace
(field->is_stack) and the histogram field is not a "long[" stacktrace
array, validation falls through to the generic size and signedness
comparison.

Because parse_synth_field() sets a stacktrace field's type to
"__data_loc unsigned long[]", its size is sizeof(u64) and
synth_field_signed() marks it as signed.  Consequently, any 8-byte
signed scalar histogram field passes the fallback check, and its scalar
value is subsequently dereferenced as a kernel stacktrace pointer in
get_field_size() and trace_stack().

Reject any mismatch between field->is_stack and a "long[" histogram
field type in check_synth_field().

Fixes: 00cf3d672a9d ("tracing: Allow synthetic events to pass around stacktraces")
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Lee Jones <lee@kernel.org>
---
 kernel/trace/trace_events_hist.c | 5 ++++-
 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/kernel/trace/trace_events_hist.c b/kernel/trace/trace_events_hist.c
index 8af97fd4ee2d..b09f5043e154 100644
--- a/kernel/trace/trace_events_hist.c
+++ b/kernel/trace/trace_events_hist.c
@@ -3946,7 +3946,10 @@ static int check_synth_field(struct synth_event *event,
 	    && field->is_dynamic)
 		return 0;
 
-	if (strstr(hist_field->type, "long[") && field->is_stack)
+	if (!!strstr(hist_field->type, "long[") != field->is_stack)
+		return -EINVAL;
+
+	if (field->is_stack)
 		return 0;
 
 	if (strcmp(field->type, hist_field->type) != 0) {
-- 
2.56.0.385.gd3acb90ef8-goog


             reply	other threads:[~2026-10-12 15:58 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2026-10-12 15:58 Lee Jones [this message]
2026-10-12 16:13 ` [PATCH] tracing/histograms: Reject non-stacktrace fields for synthetic stacktrace fields sashiko-bot
2026-10-13  9:19   ` Lee Jones

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