* [for-linus][PATCH v2 0/2] tracing: A couple of fixes for v6.18
@ 2025-10-11 19:42 Steven Rostedt
2025-10-11 19:42 ` [for-linus][PATCH v2 1/2] tracing: Fix tracing_mark_raw_write() to use buf and not ubuf Steven Rostedt
2025-10-11 19:42 ` [for-linus][PATCH v2 2/2] tracing: Stop fortify-string from warning in tracing_mark_raw_write() Steven Rostedt
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From: Steven Rostedt @ 2025-10-11 19:42 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: linux-kernel
Cc: Masami Hiramatsu, Mark Rutland, Mathieu Desnoyers, Andrew Morton
tracing fixes for v6.18:
The previous fix to trace_marker required updating trace_marker_raw
as well. The difference between trace_marker_raw from trace_marker
is that the raw version is for applications to write binary structures
directly into the ring buffer instead of writing ASCII strings.
This is for applications that will read the raw data from the ring
buffer and get the data structures directly. It's a bit quicker than
using the ASCII version.
Unfortunately, it appears that our test suite has several tests that
test writes to the trace_marker file, but lacks any tests to the
trace_marker_raw file (this needs to be remedied). Two issues came
about the update to the trace_marker_raw file that syzbot found:
- Fix tracing_mark_raw_write() to use per CPU buffer
The fix to use the per CPU buffer to copy from user space was needed for
both the trace_maker and trace_maker_raw file.
The fix for reading from user space into per CPU buffers properly fixed
the trace_marker write function, but the trace_marker_raw file wasn't
fixed properly. The user space data was correctly written into the per CPU
buffer, but the code that wrote into the ring buffer still used the user
space pointer and not the per CPU buffer that had the user space data
already written.
- Stop the fortify string warning from writing into trace_marker_raw
After converting the copy_from_user_nofault() into a memcpy(), another
issue appeared. As writes to the trace_marker_raw expects binary data, the
first entry is a 4 byte identifier. The entry structure is defined as:
struct {
struct trace_entry ent;
int id;
char buf[];
};
The size of this structure is reserved on the ring buffer with:
size = sizeof(*entry) + cnt;
Then it is copied from the buffer into the ring buffer with:
memcpy(&entry->id, buf, cnt);
This use to be a copy_from_user_nofault(), but now converting it to
a memcpy() triggers the fortify-string code, and causes a warning.
The allocated space is actually more than what is copied, as the cnt
used also includes the entry->id portion. Allocating sizeof(*entry)
plus cnt is actually allocating 4 bytes more than what is needed.
Change the size function to:
size = struct_size(entry, buf, cnt - sizeof(entry->id));
And update the memcpy() to unsafe_memcpy().
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/trace/linux-trace.git
trace/fixes
Head SHA1: 54b91e54b113d4f15ab023a44f508251db6e22e7
Steven Rostedt (2):
tracing: Fix tracing_mark_raw_write() to use buf and not ubuf
tracing: Stop fortify-string from warning in tracing_mark_raw_write()
----
kernel/trace/trace.c | 12 ++++++++----
1 file changed, 8 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)
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From: Steven Rostedt @ 2025-10-11 19:42 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: linux-kernel
Cc: Masami Hiramatsu, Mark Rutland, Mathieu Desnoyers, Andrew Morton,
stable, syzbot+9a2ede1643175f350105
From: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
The fix to use a per CPU buffer to read user space tested only the writes
to trace_marker. But it appears that the selftests are missing tests to
the trace_maker_raw file. The trace_maker_raw file is used by applications
that writes data structures and not strings into the file, and the tools
read the raw ring buffer to process the structures it writes.
The fix that reads the per CPU buffers passes the new per CPU buffer to
the trace_marker file writes, but the update to the trace_marker_raw write
read the data from user space into the per CPU buffer, but then still used
then passed the user space address to the function that records the data.
Pass in the per CPU buffer and not the user space address.
TODO: Add a test to better test trace_marker_raw.
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Cc: Masami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@kernel.org>
Cc: Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@arm.com>
Cc: Mathieu Desnoyers <mathieu.desnoyers@efficios.com>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/20251011035243.386098147@kernel.org
Fixes: 64cf7d058a00 ("tracing: Have trace_marker use per-cpu data to read user space")
Reported-by: syzbot+9a2ede1643175f350105@syzkaller.appspotmail.com
Closes: https://lore.kernel.org/all/68e973f5.050a0220.1186a4.0010.GAE@google.com/
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (Google) <rostedt@goodmis.org>
---
kernel/trace/trace.c | 4 ++--
1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
diff --git a/kernel/trace/trace.c b/kernel/trace/trace.c
index 0fd582651293..bbb89206a891 100644
--- a/kernel/trace/trace.c
+++ b/kernel/trace/trace.c
@@ -7497,12 +7497,12 @@ tracing_mark_raw_write(struct file *filp, const char __user *ubuf,
if (tr == &global_trace) {
guard(rcu)();
list_for_each_entry_rcu(tr, &marker_copies, marker_list) {
- written = write_raw_marker_to_buffer(tr, ubuf, cnt);
+ written = write_raw_marker_to_buffer(tr, buf, cnt);
if (written < 0)
break;
}
} else {
- written = write_raw_marker_to_buffer(tr, ubuf, cnt);
+ written = write_raw_marker_to_buffer(tr, buf, cnt);
}
return written;
--
2.51.0
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2025-10-11 19:42 [for-linus][PATCH v2 0/2] tracing: A couple of fixes for v6.18 Steven Rostedt
2025-10-11 19:42 ` [for-linus][PATCH v2 1/2] tracing: Fix tracing_mark_raw_write() to use buf and not ubuf Steven Rostedt
@ 2025-10-11 19:42 ` Steven Rostedt
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From: Steven Rostedt @ 2025-10-11 19:42 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: linux-kernel
Cc: Masami Hiramatsu, Mark Rutland, Mathieu Desnoyers, Andrew Morton,
stable, syzbot+9a2ede1643175f350105
From: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
The way tracing_mark_raw_write() records its data is that it has the
following structure:
struct {
struct trace_entry;
int id;
char buf[];
};
But memcpy(&entry->id, buf, size) triggers the following warning when the
size is greater than the id:
------------[ cut here ]------------
memcpy: detected field-spanning write (size 6) of single field "&entry->id" at kernel/trace/trace.c:7458 (size 4)
WARNING: CPU: 7 PID: 995 at kernel/trace/trace.c:7458 write_raw_marker_to_buffer.isra.0+0x1f9/0x2e0
Modules linked in:
CPU: 7 UID: 0 PID: 995 Comm: bash Not tainted 6.17.0-test-00007-g60b82183e78a-dirty #211 PREEMPT(voluntary)
Hardware name: QEMU Standard PC (Q35 + ICH9, 2009), BIOS 1.17.0-debian-1.17.0-1 04/01/2014
RIP: 0010:write_raw_marker_to_buffer.isra.0+0x1f9/0x2e0
Code: 04 00 75 a7 b9 04 00 00 00 48 89 de 48 89 04 24 48 c7 c2 e0 b1 d1 b2 48 c7 c7 40 b2 d1 b2 c6 05 2d 88 6a 04 01 e8 f7 e8 bd ff <0f> 0b 48 8b 04 24 e9 76 ff ff ff 49 8d 7c 24 04 49 8d 5c 24 08 48
RSP: 0018:ffff888104c3fc78 EFLAGS: 00010292
RAX: 0000000000000000 RBX: 0000000000000006 RCX: 0000000000000000
RDX: 0000000000000000 RSI: 1ffffffff6b363b4 RDI: 0000000000000001
RBP: ffff888100058a00 R08: ffffffffb041d459 R09: ffffed1020987f40
R10: 0000000000000007 R11: 0000000000000001 R12: ffff888100bb9010
R13: 0000000000000000 R14: 00000000000003e3 R15: ffff888134800000
FS: 00007fa61d286740(0000) GS:ffff888286cad000(0000) knlGS:0000000000000000
CS: 0010 DS: 0000 ES: 0000 CR0: 0000000080050033
CR2: 0000560d28d509f1 CR3: 00000001047a4006 CR4: 0000000000172ef0
Call Trace:
<TASK>
tracing_mark_raw_write+0x1fe/0x290
? __pfx_tracing_mark_raw_write+0x10/0x10
? security_file_permission+0x50/0xf0
? rw_verify_area+0x6f/0x4b0
vfs_write+0x1d8/0xdd0
? __pfx_vfs_write+0x10/0x10
? __pfx_css_rstat_updated+0x10/0x10
? count_memcg_events+0xd9/0x410
? fdget_pos+0x53/0x5e0
ksys_write+0x182/0x200
? __pfx_ksys_write+0x10/0x10
? do_user_addr_fault+0x4af/0xa30
do_syscall_64+0x63/0x350
entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x76/0x7e
RIP: 0033:0x7fa61d318687
Code: 48 89 fa 4c 89 df e8 58 b3 00 00 8b 93 08 03 00 00 59 5e 48 83 f8 fc 74 1a 5b c3 0f 1f 84 00 00 00 00 00 48 8b 44 24 10 0f 05 <5b> c3 0f 1f 80 00 00 00 00 83 e2 39 83 fa 08 75 de e8 23 ff ff ff
RSP: 002b:00007ffd87fe0120 EFLAGS: 00000202 ORIG_RAX: 0000000000000001
RAX: ffffffffffffffda RBX: 00007fa61d286740 RCX: 00007fa61d318687
RDX: 0000000000000006 RSI: 0000560d28d509f0 RDI: 0000000000000001
RBP: 0000560d28d509f0 R08: 0000000000000000 R09: 0000000000000000
R10: 0000000000000000 R11: 0000000000000202 R12: 0000000000000006
R13: 00007fa61d4715c0 R14: 00007fa61d46ee80 R15: 0000000000000000
</TASK>
---[ end trace 0000000000000000 ]---
This is because fortify string sees that the size of entry->id is only 4
bytes, but it is writing more than that. But this is OK as the
dynamic_array is allocated to handle that copy.
The size allocated on the ring buffer was actually a bit too big:
size = sizeof(*entry) + cnt;
But cnt includes the 'id' and the buffer data, so adding cnt to the size
of *entry actually allocates too much on the ring buffer.
Change the allocation to:
size = struct_size(entry, buf, cnt - sizeof(entry->id));
and the memcpy() to unsafe_memcpy() with an added justification.
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Cc: Masami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@kernel.org>
Cc: Mathieu Desnoyers <mathieu.desnoyers@efficios.com>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/20251011112032.77be18e4@gandalf.local.home
Fixes: 64cf7d058a00 ("tracing: Have trace_marker use per-cpu data to read user space")
Reported-by: syzbot+9a2ede1643175f350105@syzkaller.appspotmail.com
Closes: https://lore.kernel.org/all/68e973f5.050a0220.1186a4.0010.GAE@google.com/
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (Google) <rostedt@goodmis.org>
---
kernel/trace/trace.c | 8 ++++++--
1 file changed, 6 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
diff --git a/kernel/trace/trace.c b/kernel/trace/trace.c
index bbb89206a891..eb256378e65b 100644
--- a/kernel/trace/trace.c
+++ b/kernel/trace/trace.c
@@ -7441,7 +7441,8 @@ static ssize_t write_raw_marker_to_buffer(struct trace_array *tr,
ssize_t written;
size_t size;
- size = sizeof(*entry) + cnt;
+ /* cnt includes both the entry->id and the data behind it. */
+ size = struct_size(entry, buf, cnt - sizeof(entry->id));
buffer = tr->array_buffer.buffer;
@@ -7455,7 +7456,10 @@ static ssize_t write_raw_marker_to_buffer(struct trace_array *tr,
return -EBADF;
entry = ring_buffer_event_data(event);
- memcpy(&entry->id, buf, cnt);
+ unsafe_memcpy(&entry->id, buf, cnt,
+ "id and content already reserved on ring buffer"
+ "'buf' includes the 'id' and the data."
+ "'entry' was allocated with cnt from 'id'.");
written = cnt;
__buffer_unlock_commit(buffer, event);
--
2.51.0
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