linux.git/kernel/trace/trace_printk.c, branch v6.12.80

tracing: Disable "other" permission bits in the tracefs files

2021-10-08T22:08:43+00:00

When building the files in the tracefs file system, do not by default set
any permissions for OTH (other). This will make it easier for admins who
want to define a group for accessing tracefs and not having to first
disable all the permission bits for "other" in the file system.

As tracing can leak sensitive information, it should never by default
allowing all users access. An admin can still set the permission bits for
others to have access, which may be useful for creating a honeypot and
seeing who takes advantage of it and roots the machine.

Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20210818153038.864149276@goodmis.org

Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (VMware)

tracing: Add a verifier to check string pointers for trace events

2021-03-18T16:58:27+00:00

It is a common mistake for someone writing a trace event to save a pointer
to a string in the TP_fast_assign() and then display that string pointer
in the TP_printk() with %s. The problem is that those two events may happen
a long time apart, where the source of the string may no longer exist.

The proper way to handle displaying any string that is not guaranteed to be
in the kernel core rodata section, is to copy it into the ring buffer via
the __string(), __assign_str() and __get_str() helper macros.

Add a check at run time while displaying the TP_printk() of events to make
sure that every %s referenced is safe to dereference, and if it is not,
trigger a warning and only show the address of the pointer, and the
dereferenced string if it can be safely retrieved with a
strncpy_from_kernel_nofault() call.

In order to not have to copy the parsing of vsnprintf() formats, or even
exporting its code, the verifier relies on vsnprintf() being able to
modify the va_list that is passed to it, and it remains modified after it
is called. This is the case for some architectures like x86_64, but other
architectures like x86_32 pass the va_list to vsnprintf() as a value not a
reference, and the verifier can not use it to parse the non string
arguments. Thus, at boot up, it is checked if vsnprintf() modifies the
passed in va_list or not, and a static branch will disable the verifier if
it's not compatible.

Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (VMware)

Merge tag 'trace-v5.10' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/rostedt/linux-trace

2020-10-15T22:51:28+00:00

Pull tracing updates from Steven Rostedt:
 "Updates for tracing and bootconfig:

   - Add support for "bool" type in synthetic events

   - Add per instance tracing for bootconfig

   - Support perf-style return probe ("SYMBOL%return") in kprobes and
     uprobes

   - Allow for kprobes to be enabled earlier in boot up

   - Added tracepoint helper function to allow testing if tracepoints
     are enabled in headers

   - Synthetic events can now have dynamic strings (variable length)

   - Various fixes and cleanups"

* tag 'trace-v5.10' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/rostedt/linux-trace: (58 commits)
  tracing: support "bool" type in synthetic trace events
  selftests/ftrace: Add test case for synthetic event syntax errors
  tracing: Handle synthetic event array field type checking correctly
  selftests/ftrace: Change synthetic event name for inter-event-combined test
  tracing: Add synthetic event error logging
  tracing: Check that the synthetic event and field names are legal
  tracing: Move is_good_name() from trace_probe.h to trace.h
  tracing: Don't show dynamic string internals in synthetic event description
  tracing: Fix some typos in comments
  tracing/boot: Add ftrace.instance.*.alloc_snapshot option
  tracing: Fix race in trace_open and buffer resize call
  tracing: Check return value of __create_val_fields() before using its result
  tracing: Fix synthetic print fmt check for use of __get_str()
  tracing: Remove a pointless assignment
  ftrace: ftrace_global_list is renamed to ftrace_ops_list
  ftrace: Format variable declarations of ftrace_allocate_records
  ftrace: Simplify the calculation of page number for ftrace_page->records
  ftrace: Simplify the dyn_ftrace->flags macro
  ftrace: Simplify the hash calculation
  ftrace: Use fls() to get the bits for dup_hash()
  ...

tracing: make tracing_init_dentry() returns an integer instead of a d_entry pointer

2020-09-19T02:17:14+00:00

Current tracing_init_dentry() return a d_entry pointer, while is not
necessary. This function returns NULL on success or error on failure,
which means there is no valid d_entry pointer return.

Let's return 0 on success and negative value for error.

Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20200712011036.70948-5-richard.weiyang@linux.alibaba.com

Signed-off-by: Wei Yang 
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (VMware)

module: Fix up module_notifier return values

2020-09-01T07:58:03+00:00

While auditing all module notifiers I noticed a whole bunch of fail
wrt the return value. Notifiers have a 'special' return semantics.

As is; NOTIFY_DONE vs NOTIFY_OK is a bit vague; but
notifier_from_errno(0) results in NOTIFY_OK and NOTIFY_DONE has a
comment that says "Don't care".

From this I've used NOTIFY_DONE when the function completely ignores
the callback and notifier_to_error() isn't used.

Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) 
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar 
Reviewed-by: Mathieu Desnoyers 
Reviewed-by: Joel Fernandes (Google) 
Reviewed-by: Robert Richter 
Acked-by: Steven Rostedt (VMware) 
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20200818135804.385360407@infradead.org

tracing: Add locked_down checks to the open calls of files created for tracefs

2019-10-13T00:48:06+00:00

Added various checks on open tracefs calls to see if tracefs is in lockdown
mode, and if so, to return -EPERM.

Note, the event format files (which are basically standard on all machines)
as well as the enabled_functions file (which shows what is currently being
traced) are not lockde down. Perhaps they should be, but it seems counter
intuitive to lockdown information to help you know if the system has been
modified.

Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/CAHk-=wj7fGPKUspr579Cii-w_y60PtRaiDgKuxVtBAMK0VNNkA@mail.gmail.com

Suggested-by: Linus Torvalds 
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (VMware)

tracing: Trivia spelling fix containerof() -> container_of()

2018-09-26T09:21:00+00:00

This is the only location on kernel that has wrong spelling
of the container_of() helper. Fix it.

Signed-off-by: Andy Shevchenko 
Acked-by: Steven Rostedt (VMware) 
Signed-off-by: Andy Shevchenko

tracing: Add SPDX License format tags to tracing files

2018-08-16T23:08:06+00:00

Add the SPDX License header to ease license compliance management.

Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (VMware)

treewide: Align function definition open/close braces

2018-03-26T09:13:09+00:00

Some functions definitions have either the initial open brace and/or
the closing brace outside of column 1.

Move those braces to column 1.

This allows various function analyzers like gnu complexity to work
properly for these modified functions.

Signed-off-by: Joe Perches 
Acked-by: Andy Shevchenko 
Acked-by: Paul Moore 
Acked-by: Alex Deucher 
Acked-by: Dave Chinner 
Reviewed-by: Darrick J. Wong 
Acked-by: Alexandre Belloni 
Acked-by: Martin K. Petersen 
Acked-by: Takashi Iwai 
Acked-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab 
Acked-by: Rafael J. Wysocki 
Acked-by: Nicolin Chen 
Acked-by: Martin K. Petersen 
Acked-by: Steven Rostedt (VMware) 
Signed-off-by: Jiri Kosina

tracing: Handle NULL formats in hold_module_trace_bprintk_format()

2016-06-20T13:46:12+00:00

If a task uses a non constant string for the format parameter in
trace_printk(), then the trace_printk_fmt variable is set to NULL. This
variable is then saved in the __trace_printk_fmt section.

The function hold_module_trace_bprintk_format() checks to see if duplicate
formats are used by modules, and reuses them if so (saves them to the list
if it is new). But this function calls lookup_format() that does a strcmp()
to the value (which is now NULL) and can cause a kernel oops.

This wasn't an issue till 3debb0a9ddb ("tracing: Fix trace_printk() to print
when not using bprintk()") which added "__used" to the trace_printk_fmt
variable, and before that, the kernel simply optimized it out (no NULL value
was saved).

The fix is simply to handle the NULL pointer in lookup_format() and have the
caller ignore the value if it was NULL.

Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1464769870-18344-1-git-send-email-zhengjun.xing@intel.com

Reported-by: xingzhen 
Acked-by: Namhyung Kim 
Fixes: 3debb0a9ddb ("tracing: Fix trace_printk() to print when not using bprintk()")
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org # v3.5+
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt