[PATCH] tracing: Do not allow mmap() of persistent ring buffer

Steven Rostedt
2025-02-13T23:07:28Z

From: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>

When trying to mmap a trace instance buffer that is attached to
reserve_mem, it would crash:

BUG: unable to handle page fault for address: ffffe97bd00025c8
#PF: supervisor read access in kernel mode
#PF: error_code(0x0000) - not-present page
PGD 2862f3067 P4D 2862f3067 PUD 0
Oops: Oops: 0000 [#1] PREEMPT_RT SMP PTI
CPU: 4 UID: 0 PID: 981 Comm: mmap-rb Not tainted 6.14.0-rc2-test-00003-g7f1a5e3fbf9e-dirty #233
Hardware name: QEMU Standard PC (Q35 + ICH9, 2009), BIOS 1.16.3-debian-1.16.3-2 04/01/2014
RIP: 0010:validate_page_before_insert+0x5/0xb0
Code: e2 01 89 d0 c3 cc cc cc cc 66 66 2e 0f 1f 84 00 00 00 00 00 90 90 90 90 90 90 90 90 90 90 90 90 90 90 90 90 90 0f 1f 44 00 00 <48> 8b 46 08 a8 01 75 67 66 90 48 89 f0 8b 50 34 85 d2 74 76 48 89
RSP: 0018:ffffb148c2f3f968 EFLAGS: 00010246
RAX: ffff9fa5d3322000 RBX: ffff9fa5ccff9c08 RCX: 00000000b879ed29
RDX: ffffe97bd00025c0 RSI: ffffe97bd00025c0 RDI: ffff9fa5ccff9c08
RBP: ffffb148c2f3f9f0 R08: 0000000000000004 R09: 0000000000000004
R10: 0000000000000000 R11: 0000000000000200 R12: 0000000000000000
R13: 00007f16a18d5000 R14: ffff9fa5c48db6a8 R15: 0000000000000000
FS: 00007f16a1b54740(0000) GS:ffff9fa73df00000(0000) knlGS:0000000000000000
CS: 0010 DS: 0000 ES: 0000 CR0: 0000000080050033
CR2: ffffe97bd00025c8 CR3: 00000001048c6006 CR4: 0000000000172ef0
Call Trace:
<TASK>
? __die_body.cold+0x19/0x1f
? __die+0x2e/0x40
? page_fault_oops+0x157/0x2b0
? search_module_extables+0x53/0x80
? validate_page_before_insert+0x5/0xb0
? kernelmode_fixup_or_oops.isra.0+0x5f/0x70
? __bad_area_nosemaphore+0x16e/0x1b0
? bad_area_nosemaphore+0x16/0x20
? do_kern_addr_fault+0x77/0x90
? exc_page_fault+0x22b/0x230
? asm_exc_page_fault+0x2b/0x30
? validate_page_before_insert+0x5/0xb0
? vm_insert_pages+0x151/0x400
__rb_map_vma+0x21f/0x3f0
ring_buffer_map+0x21b/0x2f0
tracing_buffers_mmap+0x70/0xd0
__mmap_region+0x6f0/0xbd0
mmap_region+0x7f/0x130
do_mmap+0x475/0x610
vm_mmap_pgoff+0xf2/0x1d0
ksys_mmap_pgoff+0x166/0x200
__x64_sys_mmap+0x37/0x50
x64_sys_call+0x1670/0x1d70
do_syscall_64+0xbb/0x1d0
entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x77/0x7f

The reason was that the code that maps the ring buffer pages to user space
has:

page = virt_to_page((void *)cpu_buffer->subbuf_ids[s]);

And uses that in:

vm_insert_pages(vma, vma->vm_start, pages, &nr_pages);

But virt_to_page() does not work with vmap()'d memory which is what the
persistent ring buffer has. It is rather trivial to allow this, but for
now just disable mmap() of instances that have their ring buffer from the
reserve_mem option.

Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Fixes: e645535a954ad ("tracing: Add option to use memmapped memory for trace boot instance")
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (Google) <rostedt@goodmis.org>
---
kernel/trace/trace.c | 4 ++++
1 file changed, 4 insertions(+)

diff --git a/kernel/trace/trace.c b/kernel/trace/trace.c
index 25ff37aab00f..72895500155d 100644
--- a/kernel/trace/trace.c
+++ b/kernel/trace/trace.c
@@ -8279,6 +8279,10 @@ static int tracing_buffers_mmap(struct file *filp, struct vm_area_struct *vma)
struct trace_iterator *iter = &info->iter;
int ret = 0;

+ /* Currently the boot mapped buffer is not supported for mmap */
+ if (iter->tr->flags & TRACE_ARRAY_FL_BOOT)
+ return -EINVAL;
+
ret = get_snapshot_map(iter->tr);
if (ret)
return ret;
--
2.47.2