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From: Andrea Righi <righi.andrea@gmail.com>
To: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>,
	Masami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@kernel.org>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com>,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, stable@vger.kernel.org
Subject: [PATCH v2] tracing/kprobes: fix NULL pointer dereference in trace_kprobe_create()
Date: Fri, 11 Jan 2019 07:01:13 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20190111060113.GA22841@xps-13> (raw)

It is possible to trigger a NULL pointer dereference by writing an
incorrectly formatted string to krpobe_events (trying to create a
kretprobe omitting the symbol).

Example:

 echo "r:event_1 " >> /sys/kernel/debug/tracing/kprobe_events

That triggers this:

 BUG: unable to handle kernel NULL pointer dereference at 0000000000000000
 #PF error: [normal kernel read fault]
 PGD 0 P4D 0
 Oops: 0000 [#1] SMP PTI
 CPU: 6 PID: 1757 Comm: bash Not tainted 5.0.0-rc1+ #125
 Hardware name: Dell Inc. XPS 13 9370/0F6P3V, BIOS 1.5.1 08/09/2018
 RIP: 0010:kstrtoull+0x2/0x20
 Code: 28 00 00 00 75 17 48 83 c4 18 5b 41 5c 5d c3 b8 ea ff ff ff eb e1 b8 de ff ff ff eb da e8 d6 36 bb ff 66 0f 1f 44 00 00 31 c0 <80> 3f 2b 55 48 89 e5 0f 94 c0 48 01 c7 e8 5c ff ff ff 5d c3 66 2e
 RSP: 0018:ffffb5d482e57cb8 EFLAGS: 00010246
 RAX: 0000000000000000 RBX: 0000000000000001 RCX: ffffffff82b12720
 RDX: ffffb5d482e57cf8 RSI: 0000000000000000 RDI: 0000000000000000
 RBP: ffffb5d482e57d70 R08: ffffa0c05e5a7080 R09: ffffa0c05e003980
 R10: 0000000000000000 R11: 0000000040000000 R12: ffffa0c04fe87b08
 R13: 0000000000000001 R14: 000000000000000b R15: ffffa0c058d749e1
 FS:  00007f137c7f7740(0000) GS:ffffa0c05e580000(0000) knlGS:0000000000000000
 CS:  0010 DS: 0000 ES: 0000 CR0: 0000000080050033
 CR2: 0000000000000000 CR3: 0000000497d46004 CR4: 00000000003606e0
 Call Trace:
  ? trace_kprobe_create+0xb6/0x840
  ? _cond_resched+0x19/0x40
  ? _cond_resched+0x19/0x40
  ? __kmalloc+0x62/0x210
  ? argv_split+0x8f/0x140
  ? trace_kprobe_create+0x840/0x840
  ? trace_kprobe_create+0x840/0x840
  create_or_delete_trace_kprobe+0x11/0x30
  trace_run_command+0x50/0x90
  trace_parse_run_command+0xc1/0x160
  probes_write+0x10/0x20
  __vfs_write+0x3a/0x1b0
  ? apparmor_file_permission+0x1a/0x20
  ? security_file_permission+0x31/0xf0
  ? _cond_resched+0x19/0x40
  vfs_write+0xb1/0x1a0
  ksys_write+0x55/0xc0
  __x64_sys_write+0x1a/0x20
  do_syscall_64+0x5a/0x120
  entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x44/0xa9

Fix by doing the proper argument checks in trace_kprobe_create().

Link: https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/20190111095108.b79a2ee026185cbd62365977@kernel.org
Fixes: 6212dd29683e ("tracing/kprobes: Use dyn_event framework for kprobe events")
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Andrea Righi <righi.andrea@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Masami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@kernel.org>
---
 v2: argument check refactoring

 kernel/trace/trace_kprobe.c | 12 +++++++++---
 1 file changed, 9 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)

diff --git a/kernel/trace/trace_kprobe.c b/kernel/trace/trace_kprobe.c
index 5c19b8c41c7e..d5fb09ebba8b 100644
--- a/kernel/trace/trace_kprobe.c
+++ b/kernel/trace/trace_kprobe.c
@@ -607,11 +607,17 @@ static int trace_kprobe_create(int argc, const char *argv[])
 	char buf[MAX_EVENT_NAME_LEN];
 	unsigned int flags = TPARG_FL_KERNEL;
 
-	/* argc must be >= 1 */
-	if (argv[0][0] == 'r') {
+	switch (argv[0][0]) {
+	case 'r':
 		is_return = true;
 		flags |= TPARG_FL_RETURN;
-	} else if (argv[0][0] != 'p' || argc < 2)
+		break;
+	case 'p':
+		break;
+	default:
+		return -ECANCELED;
+	}
+	if (argc < 2)
 		return -ECANCELED;
 
 	event = strchr(&argv[0][1], ':');
-- 
2.17.1


             reply	other threads:[~2019-01-11  6:01 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2019-01-11  6:01 Andrea Righi [this message]
2019-01-11 13:45 ` [PATCH v2] tracing/kprobes: fix NULL pointer dereference in trace_kprobe_create() Masami Hiramatsu
2019-01-14 15:42   ` Steven Rostedt
2019-01-15 16:33 ` Steven Rostedt

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