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/synthetic: Handle dynamic string read faults
Date: Tue, 13 Oct 2026 08:44:38 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20261013084439.487647-1-lee@kernel.org> (raw)
Commit 0934ae9977c2 ("tracing: Fix reading strings from synthetic
events") switched synthetic event dynamic strings to use
fetch_store_strlen() and fetch_store_string(), relying on commit
2e9906f84fc7 ("tracing: Add "(fault)" name injection to kernel probes")
to reserve and store FAULT_STRING when a string address faults.
When commit 4ed8f337dee3 ("Revert "tracing: Add "(fault)" name injection
to kernel probes"") and commit 797311bce5c2 ("tracing/probes: Fix to
record 0-length data_loc in fetch_store_string*() if fails") later
reverted FAULT_STRING injection in favour of recording a 0-length
data_loc on fault, synthetic events were left unchanged.
Consequently, a faulting kernel string address causes get_field_size()
to add a negative error code (-EFAULT) to fields_size, under-reserving
the trace buffer entry, while trace_string() casts the negative return
value to an unsigned length and passes it to fetch_store_string() and
write_synth_entry(), corrupting the ring buffer.
Skip non-positive lengths in get_field_size(), record a 0-length
dynamic field in trace_string() when fetching a dynamic string fails,
and print FAULT_STRING in print_synth_event() when a dynamic string has
zero length, matching trace_probe.
Fixes: 4ed8f337dee3 ("Revert "tracing: Add "(fault)" name injection to kernel probes"")
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Lee Jones <lee@kernel.org>
---
kernel/trace/trace_events_synth.c | 19 ++++++++++++++++---
1 file changed, 16 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)
diff --git a/kernel/trace/trace_events_synth.c b/kernel/trace/trace_events_synth.c
index dc15658a887c..7506e2e1f64a 100644
--- a/kernel/trace/trace_events_synth.c
+++ b/kernel/trace/trace_events_synth.c
@@ -376,7 +376,9 @@ static enum print_line_t print_synth_event(struct trace_iterator *iter,
union trace_synth_field *data = &entry->fields[n_u64];
trace_seq_printf(s, print_fmt, se->fields[i]->name,
- (char *)entry + data->as_dynamic.offset,
+ data->as_dynamic.len ?
+ (char *)entry + data->as_dynamic.offset :
+ FAULT_STRING,
i == se->n_fields - 1 ? "" : " ");
n_u64++;
} else {
@@ -438,11 +440,20 @@ static unsigned int trace_string(struct synth_trace_event *entry,
if (is_dynamic) {
union trace_synth_field *data = &entry->fields[*n_u64];
- len = fetch_store_strlen((unsigned long)str_val);
data->as_dynamic.offset = struct_size(entry, fields, event->n_u64) + data_size;
- data->as_dynamic.len = len;
+
+ ret = fetch_store_strlen((unsigned long)str_val);
+ if (ret <= 0) {
+ data->as_dynamic.len = 0;
+ (*n_u64)++;
+ return 0;
+ }
+
+ data->as_dynamic.len = ret;
ret = fetch_store_string((unsigned long)str_val, &entry->fields[*n_u64], entry);
+ if (ret > 0)
+ len = ret;
(*n_u64)++;
} else {
@@ -522,6 +533,8 @@ static __always_inline int get_field_size(struct synth_event *event,
len *= sizeof(unsigned long);
} else {
len = fetch_store_strlen((unsigned long)str_val);
+ if (len <= 0)
+ continue;
}
fields_size += len;
--
2.56.0.385.gd3acb90ef8-goog
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