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From: Leizhen Zhang <lzsx618@gmail.com>
To: rostedt@goodmis.org, mhiramat@kernel.org
Cc: mathieu.desnoyers@efficios.com,
	linux-trace-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
	Leizhen Zhang <lzsx618@gmail.com>
Subject: [PATCH] tracepoint-update: bound section names by the section name table
Date: Sun, 18 Oct 2026 19:04:19 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20261019000419.3977860-1-lzsx618@gmail.com> (raw)

process_tracepoints() finds its two sections by name:

	secstrings = (const char *)ehdr + shdr_offset(string_sec);
	...
		idx = shdr_name(shdr);
		if (!strcmp(secstrings + idx, "__tracepoint_check")) {

sh_name is a 32-bit offset read from the file and nothing bounds it, so one
section header can point the name anywhere and strcmp() reads from there.

Found by fuzzing the host ELF tools with mutated object files under
ASan/UBSan. Reproducer, setting only sh_name of section 1 in an otherwise
valid .o:

  $ python3 -c 'import struct
  d = bytearray(open("tiny.o","rb").read())
  shoff, = struct.unpack_from("<Q", d, 0x28)
  entsize, = struct.unpack_from("<H", d, 0x3a)
  struct.pack_into("<I", d, shoff + entsize, 0x7ffffff0)
  open("t.o","wb").write(bytes(d))'

  $ ./tracepoint-update t.o
  ERROR: AddressSanitizer: SEGV on unknown address 0x7f8d689ae848
    #0 in strcmp
    #1 in process_tracepoints scripts/tracepoint-update.c

Skip a section whose name offset is outside the name table. Such a section
is neither __tracepoint_check nor __tracepoints_strings, so skipping it
changes nothing for a valid object: the reproducer and an unmodified object
now both print the same "no __tracepoint_check in file" line and exit 1.

This bounds the index into the table, not the table itself: a name table
whose own sh_offset or sh_size is bogus is a separate gap, and in the
elf_map() path used here there is no mapped size to check it against.

Fixes: e30f8e61e251 ("tracing: Add a tracepoint verification check at build time")
Assisted-by: LLM ASan UBSan
Signed-off-by: Leizhen Zhang <lzsx618@gmail.com>
---
 scripts/tracepoint-update.c | 5 +++++
 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+)

diff --git a/scripts/tracepoint-update.c b/scripts/tracepoint-update.c
index 5cf43c0aac89..2736e91e6f06 100644
--- a/scripts/tracepoint-update.c
+++ b/scripts/tracepoint-update.c
@@ -157,6 +157,7 @@ static int process_tracepoints(bool mod, void *addr, const char *fname)
 	Elf_Shdr *shdr_start;
 	Elf_Shdr *string_sec;
 	const char *secstrings;
+	uint64_t secstrings_size;
 	unsigned int shnum;
 	unsigned int shstrndx;
 	int shentsize;
@@ -171,6 +172,7 @@ static int process_tracepoints(bool mod, void *addr, const char *fname)
 		shstrndx = shdr_link(shdr_start);
 	string_sec = get_index(shdr_start, shentsize, shstrndx);
 	secstrings = (const char *)ehdr + shdr_offset(string_sec);
+	secstrings_size = shdr_size(string_sec);
 
 	shnum = ehdr_shnum(ehdr);
 	if (shnum == SHN_UNDEF)
@@ -179,7 +181,10 @@ static int process_tracepoints(bool mod, void *addr, const char *fname)
 	for (int i = 0; done && i < shnum; i++) {
 		Elf_Shdr *shdr = get_index(shdr_start, shentsize, i);
 
+		/* sh_name is a file-supplied offset into the name table. */
 		idx = shdr_name(shdr);
+		if ((uint32_t)idx >= secstrings_size)
+			continue;
 
 		/* locate the __tracepoint_check in vmlinux */
 		if (!strcmp(secstrings + idx, "__tracepoint_check")) {
-- 
2.34.1


             reply	other threads:[~2026-10-19  0:04 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 2+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2026-10-19  0:04 Leizhen Zhang [this message]
2026-10-19 13:53 ` [PATCH] tracepoint-update: bound section names by the section name table Steven Rostedt

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