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From: Pengpeng Hou <pengpeng@iscas.ac.cn>
To: rostedt@goodmis.org, mhiramat@kernel.org,
	mathieu.desnoyers@efficios.com, tom.zanussi@linux.intel.com
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-trace-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
	pengpeng@iscas.ac.cn
Subject: [PATCH v2 2/2] tracing/hist: reject synthetic-field strings that exceed MAX_FILTER_STR_VAL
Date: Mon, 30 Mar 2026 10:46:19 +0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20260330024619.38460-1-pengpeng@iscas.ac.cn> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20260329030950.32503-2-pengpeng@iscas.ac.cn>

The synthetic field helpers build a prefixed synthetic field name and a
hist trigger command in fixed MAX_FILTER_STR_VAL staging buffers. Even
when each individual field or filter string stays within that limit, the
combined "keys=...:synthetic_...=... if ..." command can exceed 256
bytes and overrun the scratch buffer.

Keep MAX_FILTER_STR_VAL as the tracing-side limit and reject synthetic
field names or generated commands that do not fit in that bound before
formatting them into the fixed buffers.

Fixes: 02205a6752f2 ("tracing: Add support for 'field variables'")
Signed-off-by: Pengpeng Hou <pengpeng@iscas.ac.cn>
---
v2:
- keep MAX_FILTER_STR_VAL as the fixed tracing-side limit
- reject overlong synthetic names and generated commands with -E2BIG
- drop the previous dynamic-allocation approach

 kernel/trace/trace_events_hist.c | 57 +++++++++++++++++++++++---------
 1 file changed, 41 insertions(+), 16 deletions(-)

diff --git a/kernel/trace/trace_events_hist.c b/kernel/trace/trace_events_hist.c
index f9c8a4f078ea..4172c91605af 100644
--- a/kernel/trace/trace_events_hist.c
+++ b/kernel/trace/trace_events_hist.c
@@ -2966,12 +2966,16 @@ find_synthetic_field_var(struct hist_trigger_data *target_hist_data,
 	struct hist_field *event_var;
 	char *synthetic_name;
 
+	if ((sizeof("synthetic_") - 1) + strlen(field_name) >=
+	    MAX_FILTER_STR_VAL)
+		return ERR_PTR(-E2BIG);
+
 	synthetic_name = kzalloc(MAX_FILTER_STR_VAL, GFP_KERNEL);
 	if (!synthetic_name)
 		return ERR_PTR(-ENOMEM);
 
-	strcpy(synthetic_name, "synthetic_");
-	strcat(synthetic_name, field_name);
+	scnprintf(synthetic_name, MAX_FILTER_STR_VAL, "synthetic_%s",
+		  field_name);
 
 	event_var = find_event_var(target_hist_data, system, event_name, synthetic_name);
 
@@ -3018,6 +3022,8 @@ create_field_var_hist(struct hist_trigger_data *target_hist_data,
 	struct hist_field *event_var;
 	char *saved_filter;
 	char *cmd;
+	size_t cmdlen;
+	size_t off;
 	int ret;
 
 	if (target_hist_data->n_field_var_hists >= SYNTH_FIELDS_MAX) {
@@ -3048,13 +3054,36 @@ create_field_var_hist(struct hist_trigger_data *target_hist_data,
 	/* See if a synthetic field variable has already been created */
 	event_var = find_synthetic_field_var(target_hist_data, subsys_name,
 					     event_name, field_name);
-	if (!IS_ERR_OR_NULL(event_var))
+	if (IS_ERR(event_var))
+		return event_var;
+	if (event_var)
 		return event_var;
 
 	var_hist = kzalloc_obj(*var_hist);
 	if (!var_hist)
 		return ERR_PTR(-ENOMEM);
 
+	saved_filter = find_trigger_filter(hist_data, file);
+
+	cmdlen = strlen("keys=") + strlen(":synthetic_") +
+		 strlen(field_name) + strlen("=") + strlen(field_name);
+	first = true;
+	for_each_hist_key_field(i, hist_data) {
+		key_field = hist_data->fields[i];
+		if (!first)
+			cmdlen++;
+		cmdlen += strlen(key_field->field->name);
+		first = false;
+	}
+
+	if (saved_filter)
+		cmdlen += strlen(" if ") + strlen(saved_filter);
+
+	if (cmdlen >= MAX_FILTER_STR_VAL) {
+		kfree(var_hist);
+		return ERR_PTR(-E2BIG);
+	}
+
 	cmd = kzalloc(MAX_FILTER_STR_VAL, GFP_KERNEL);
 	if (!cmd) {
 		kfree(var_hist);
@@ -3062,28 +3091,24 @@ create_field_var_hist(struct hist_trigger_data *target_hist_data,
 	}
 
 	/* Use the same keys as the compatible histogram */
-	strcat(cmd, "keys=");
+	off = scnprintf(cmd, MAX_FILTER_STR_VAL, "keys=");
+	first = true;
 
 	for_each_hist_key_field(i, hist_data) {
 		key_field = hist_data->fields[i];
-		if (!first)
-			strcat(cmd, ",");
-		strcat(cmd, key_field->field->name);
+		off += scnprintf(cmd + off, MAX_FILTER_STR_VAL - off, "%s%s",
+				 first ? "" : ",", key_field->field->name);
 		first = false;
 	}
 
 	/* Create the synthetic field variable specification */
-	strcat(cmd, ":synthetic_");
-	strcat(cmd, field_name);
-	strcat(cmd, "=");
-	strcat(cmd, field_name);
+	off += scnprintf(cmd + off, MAX_FILTER_STR_VAL - off,
+			 ":synthetic_%s=%s", field_name, field_name);
 
 	/* Use the same filter as the compatible histogram */
-	saved_filter = find_trigger_filter(hist_data, file);
-	if (saved_filter) {
-		strcat(cmd, " if ");
-		strcat(cmd, saved_filter);
-	}
+	if (saved_filter)
+		scnprintf(cmd + off, MAX_FILTER_STR_VAL - off, " if %s",
+			  saved_filter);
 
 	var_hist->cmd = kstrdup(cmd, GFP_KERNEL);
 	if (!var_hist->cmd) {
-- 
2.50.1 (Apple Git-155)


  parent reply	other threads:[~2026-03-30  2:46 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2026-03-29  3:09 [PATCH 2/2] tracing/hist: allocate synthetic-field command buffers to fit Pengpeng Hou
2026-03-29 18:49 ` Steven Rostedt
2026-03-30  2:46 ` Pengpeng Hou [this message]
2026-04-01 11:22 ` [PATCH v2 2/2] tracing/hist: reject synthetic-field strings that exceed MAX_FILTER_STR_VAL Pengpeng Hou
2026-04-08 21:31   ` Steven Rostedt
2026-04-09  2:19   ` [PATCH v3] tracing/hist: bound synthetic-field strings with seq_buf Pengpeng Hou
2026-04-14  8:58     ` Steven Rostedt
2026-04-17  3:06     ` Pengpeng Hou
2026-04-17 12:20     ` [PATCH v4] tracing: Bound " Pengpeng Hou
2026-04-17 16:16       ` Steven Rostedt

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