[RFC tracing 1/4] tracing: predicate matching trigger crashes for > 8-byte arrays

From: Alan Maguire
Date: Sun Aug 07 2022 - 18:34:15 EST


The following (wrong) use of tracepoint filtering was enough to trigger
a null-pointer dereference crash:

cd /sys/kernel/debug/tracing
echo "saddr_v6 == 0x0100007f" > tcp/tcp_receive_reset/filter
echo 1 > tcp/tcp_receive_reset/enable
wget https://localhost

This works fine if saddr - a 4-byte array representing the source address -
is used instead.

Fix is to handle case where we encounter an unexpected size.

Signed-off-by: Alan Maguire <alan.maguire@xxxxxxxxxx>
---
kernel/trace/trace_events_filter.c | 5 +++++
1 file changed, 5 insertions(+)

diff --git a/kernel/trace/trace_events_filter.c b/kernel/trace/trace_events_filter.c
index 4b1057ab9d96..65e01c8d48d9 100644
--- a/kernel/trace/trace_events_filter.c
+++ b/kernel/trace/trace_events_filter.c
@@ -1490,6 +1490,11 @@ static int parse_pred(const char *str, void *data,
else {
pred->fn = select_comparison_fn(pred->op, field->size,
field->is_signed);
+ if (!pred->fn) {
+ parse_error(pe, FILT_ERR_ILLEGAL_FIELD_OP,
+ pos + i);
+ goto err_free;
+ }
if (pred->op == OP_NE)
pred->not = 1;
}
--
2.31.1