Commit 1ae70518 authored by Andreas Ziegler's avatar Andreas Ziegler Committed by Stefan Bader

tracing/uprobes: Fix output for multiple string arguments

BugLink: https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1818813

commit 0722069a upstream.

When printing multiple uprobe arguments as strings the output for the
earlier arguments would also include all later string arguments.

This is best explained in an example:

Consider adding a uprobe to a function receiving two strings as
parameters which is at offset 0xa0 in strlib.so and we want to print
both parameters when the uprobe is hit (on x86_64):

$ echo 'p:func /lib/strlib.so:0xa0 +0(%di):string +0(%si):string' > \
    /sys/kernel/debug/tracing/uprobe_events

When the function is called as func("foo", "bar") and we hit the probe,
the trace file shows a line like the following:

  [...] func: (0x7f7e683706a0) arg1="foobar" arg2="bar"

Note the extra "bar" printed as part of arg1. This behaviour stacks up
for additional string arguments.

The strings are stored in a dynamically growing part of the uprobe
buffer by fetch_store_string() after copying them from userspace via
strncpy_from_user(). The return value of strncpy_from_user() is then
directly used as the required size for the string. However, this does
not take the terminating null byte into account as the documentation
for strncpy_from_user() cleary states that it "[...] returns the
length of the string (not including the trailing NUL)" even though the
null byte will be copied to the destination.

Therefore, subsequent calls to fetch_store_string() will overwrite
the terminating null byte of the most recently fetched string with
the first character of the current string, leading to the
"accumulation" of strings in earlier arguments in the output.

Fix this by incrementing the return value of strncpy_from_user() by
one if we did not hit the maximum buffer size.

Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20190116141629.5752-1-andreas.ziegler@fau.de

Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com>
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Fixes: 5baaa59e ("tracing/probes: Implement 'memory' fetch method for uprobes")
Acked-by: default avatarMasami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: default avatarAndreas Ziegler <andreas.ziegler@fau.de>
Signed-off-by: default avatarSteven Rostedt (VMware) <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Signed-off-by: default avatarMasami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: default avatarGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Signed-off-by: default avatarJuerg Haefliger <juergh@canonical.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarKhalid Elmously <khalid.elmously@canonical.com>
parent 5c46c4e8
......@@ -150,7 +150,14 @@ static void FETCH_FUNC_NAME(memory, string)(struct pt_regs *regs,
ret = strncpy_from_user(dst, src, maxlen);
if (ret == maxlen)
dst[--ret] = '\0';
dst[ret - 1] = '\0';
else if (ret >= 0)
/*
* Include the terminating null byte. In this case it
* was copied by strncpy_from_user but not accounted
* for in ret.
*/
ret++;
if (ret < 0) { /* Failed to fetch string */
((u8 *)get_rloc_data(dest))[0] = '\0';
......
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