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From: Sasha Levin <sashal@kernel.org>
To: stable@vger.kernel.org
Cc: Lee Jones <lee@kernel.org>,
	"Masami Hiramatsu (Google)" <mhiramat@kernel.org>,
	Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>,
	Sasha Levin <sashal@kernel.org>
Subject: [PATCH 6.1.y] tracing/histograms: Reject non-stacktrace fields for synthetic stacktrace fields
Date: Wed, 21 Oct 2026 11:37:17 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20261021153403.303474-1-sashal@kernel.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <2026102125-surely-nastily-2d17@gregkh>

From: Lee Jones <lee@kernel.org>

[ Upstream commit a244c241593b5b38a08f0df2cb43c26574efbdcb ]

In check_synth_field(), when a synthetic event field is a stacktrace
(field->is_stack) and the histogram field is not a "long[" stacktrace
array, validation falls through to the generic size and signedness
comparison.

Because parse_synth_field() sets a stacktrace field's type to
"__data_loc unsigned long[]", its size is sizeof(u64) and
synth_field_signed() marks it as signed.  Consequently, any 8-byte
signed scalar histogram field passes the fallback check, and its scalar
value is subsequently dereferenced as a kernel stacktrace pointer in
get_field_size() and trace_stack().

Furthermore, checking strstr(hist_field->type, "long[") is insufficient
because tracepoint fields defined with __bitmask() or __rel_bitmask()
also have type "__data_loc unsigned long[]" or "__rel_loc unsigned
long[]", whilst create_hist_field() treats them as 4-byte scalar values
without HIST_FIELD_FL_STACKTRACE.

Propagate HIST_FIELD_FL_STACKTRACE to variable references and field
variables (whilst excluding variable aliases from per-element
stacktrace capture), and reject any mismatch between
HIST_FIELD_FL_STACKTRACE and field->is_stack in check_synth_field().

Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Fixes: 00cf3d672a9d ("tracing: Allow synthetic events to pass around stacktraces")
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20261013112449.1006088-1-lee@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Lee Jones <lee@kernel.org>
Acked-by: Masami Hiramatsu (Google) <mhiramat@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
[ sashal: Retained string-only buffer conditions because histogram stacktrace-variable support is absent. ]
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sashal@kernel.org>
---
 kernel/trace/trace_events_hist.c | 15 +++++++++++----
 1 file changed, 11 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)

diff --git a/kernel/trace/trace_events_hist.c b/kernel/trace/trace_events_hist.c
index 40d9de933fc85..f04037d01bdd7 100644
--- a/kernel/trace/trace_events_hist.c
+++ b/kernel/trace/trace_events_hist.c
@@ -2067,7 +2067,8 @@ static int init_var_ref(struct hist_field *ref_field,
 	ref_field->size = var_field->size;
 	ref_field->is_signed = var_field->is_signed;
 	ref_field->flags |= var_field->flags &
-		(HIST_FIELD_FL_TIMESTAMP | HIST_FIELD_FL_TIMESTAMP_USECS);
+		(HIST_FIELD_FL_TIMESTAMP | HIST_FIELD_FL_TIMESTAMP_USECS |
+		 HIST_FIELD_FL_STACKTRACE);
 
 	if (system) {
 		ref_field->system = kstrdup(system, GFP_KERNEL);
@@ -3210,6 +3211,7 @@ static struct field_var *create_field_var(struct hist_trigger_data *hist_data,
 		ret = PTR_ERR(var);
 		goto err;
 	}
+	var->flags |= val->flags & HIST_FIELD_FL_STACKTRACE;
 
 	field_var = kzalloc(sizeof(struct field_var), GFP_KERNEL);
 	if (!field_var) {
@@ -3837,7 +3839,10 @@ static int check_synth_field(struct synth_event *event,
 	    && field->is_dynamic)
 		return 0;
 
-	if (strstr(hist_field->type, "long[") && field->is_stack)
+	if (!!(hist_field->flags & HIST_FIELD_FL_STACKTRACE) != field->is_stack)
+		return -EINVAL;
+
+	if (field->is_stack)
 		return 0;
 
 	if (strcmp(field->type, hist_field->type) != 0) {
@@ -4360,7 +4365,8 @@ static int create_var_field(struct hist_trigger_data *hist_data,
 	if (!ret && hist_data->fields[val_idx]->flags & HIST_FIELD_FL_EXECNAME)
 		update_var_execname(hist_data->fields[val_idx]);
 
-	if (!ret && hist_data->fields[val_idx]->flags & HIST_FIELD_FL_STRING)
+	if (!ret && !(hist_data->fields[val_idx]->flags & HIST_FIELD_FL_ALIAS) &&
+	    hist_data->fields[val_idx]->flags & HIST_FIELD_FL_STRING)
 		hist_data->fields[val_idx]->var_str_idx = hist_data->n_var_str++;
 
 	return ret;
@@ -5093,7 +5099,8 @@ static void hist_trigger_elt_update(struct hist_trigger_data *hist_data,
 		if (hist_field->flags & HIST_FIELD_FL_VAR) {
 			var_idx = hist_field->var.idx;
 
-			if (hist_field->flags & HIST_FIELD_FL_STRING) {
+			if (!(hist_field->flags & HIST_FIELD_FL_ALIAS) &&
+			    hist_field->flags & HIST_FIELD_FL_STRING) {
 				unsigned int str_start, var_str_idx, idx;
 				char *str, *val_str;
 				unsigned int size;
-- 
2.53.0


  reply	other threads:[~2026-10-21 15:37 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2026-10-21 14:42 FAILED: patch "[PATCH] tracing/histograms: Reject non-stacktrace fields for" failed to apply to 6.1-stable tree gregkh
2026-10-21 15:37 ` Sasha Levin [this message]
2026-10-22  7:50   ` [PATCH 6.1.y] tracing/histograms: Reject non-stacktrace fields for synthetic stacktrace fields Lee Jones

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