[PATCH v3] blktrace: fix the field offsets of the synthesized v1 record
From: Donggeun Yoo <hidden>
Date: 2026-09-13 09:02:41
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Subsystem:
block layer, the rest, tracing · Maintainers:
Jens Axboe, Linus Torvalds, Steven Rostedt, Masami Hiramatsu
blk_trace_synthesize_old_trace() emits a classic blk_io_trace for the binary trace_pipe output by copying 32 bytes from the ring buffer entry's sector onward into a struct blk_io_trace. The entry is a blk_io_trace2, and the two layouts diverge after bytes: v2 has a 32-bit pid at 28 and a 64-bit action at 32, where v1 has a 32-bit action at 28 and pid at 32. Every field from action on lands one slot off, so a consumer reads the pid as the action, the device as the cpu, and the cpu as error and pdu_len. The PDU comes from the wrong offset as well. The copy ends at v2 offset 48 + pdu_len while the PDU starts at 64, so for any event carrying one -- BLK_TA_REMAP, SPLIT, UNPLUG_*, DRV_DATA, BLK_TN_MESSAGE -- the bytes appended are the error, pdu_len and pad trailer rather than the PDU. Assign each v1 field from its v2 counterpart and append the PDU from the end of the v2 record. This applies on top of Adriano Cordova's "blktrace: always record ftrace events as blk_io_trace2", [ref], and needs it. Without that patch __blk_add_trace() still reserves a 48-byte v1 entry when the trace was set up by BLKTRACESETUP, and nothing in the entry says which layout it has: magic and sequence are the ftrace trace_entry header and neither writer fills them, and the two sizes overlap, because a v1 record carrying a 16-byte BLK_TA_REMAP PDU is also 64 bytes. Removing the short entry is what makes reading the v2 layout unconditionally correct. Fixes: 4d8bc7bd4f73 ("blktrace: move ftrace blk_io_tracer to blk_io_trace2") Link: https://lore.kernel.org/all/20260903202932.156278-1-adrianox@gmail.com/ (local) Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org Signed-off-by: Donggeun Yoo <redacted> Assisted-by: Claude:claude-fable-5 --- Note: this applies on top of Adriano Cordova's "blktrace: always record ftrace events as blk_io_trace2" and is not correct without it -- please apply it after his. https://lore.kernel.org/all/20260903202932.156278-1-adrianox@gmail.com/ (local) v3: - Drop the min_t() bound on pdu_len. Both TRACE_BLK producers reserve sizeof(struct blk_io_trace2) + pdu_len + cgid_len, so the entry is always at least sizeof(*t) + t->pdu_len and the bound never clamps. sashiko-bot read it as an integer underflow, [off-list ref]; that needs an entry smaller than 64 bytes, which the patch above removes. v2: - Drop the iter->ent_size test v1 used to tell a v1 entry from a v2 one. It cannot: a 48-byte v1 record carrying a 16-byte BLK_TA_REMAP PDU is also 64 bytes. Caught by sashiko-bot, [off-list ref]. - Drop the syzbot Reported-by/Closes. That report is the unbounded copy on a 48-byte entry, which the patch above closes, not this one. v2: https://lore.kernel.org/all/20260913063155.708520-1-donggeunyoo.kernel@gmail.com/ (local) v1: https://lore.kernel.org/all/20260913025827.457116-1-donggeunyoo.kernel@gmail.com/ (local) QEMU x86_64, origin/master 2f0c1cf72f46 plus the patch above, one config and one initramfs across all arms. BLKTRACESETUP on a partitioned virtio disk, blk tracer with options/bin, and a partition read for a BLK_TA_REMAP with a 16-byte PDU. Decoded at v1 offsets: patched action 0x0811000f, pid 0x75, device 0x0fe00010, pdu_len 16, PDU device_from 0x0fe00011 device_to 0x0fe00010 sector_from 0, next record on the boundary. Byte-identical between v2 and v3, stable over four boots. unpatched the same fields, correct, then extra bytes appended: that length is read at v2 offset 50, which on a v1 entry is inside the PDU, so it is garbage. 8 bytes in one boot; the first record in the stream varies between boots, so the overrun is not a fixed size. Not exercised: the syzbot splat. iter->ent points into a ring buffer sub-buffer page, so KASAN sees an over-read only when it crosses the page end; 120 rounds over varying buffer sizes did not land it. kernel/trace/blktrace.c | 16 +++++++++++----- 1 file changed, 11 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-)
diff --git a/kernel/trace/blktrace.c b/kernel/trace/blktrace.c
index ae010969c144..89d7b707daff 100644
--- a/kernel/trace/blktrace.c
+++ b/kernel/trace/blktrace.c@@ -1728,17 +1728,23 @@ static enum print_line_t blk_trace_event_print(struct trace_iterator *iter, static void blk_trace_synthesize_old_trace(struct trace_iterator *iter) { + const struct blk_io_trace2 *t = te_blk_io_trace(iter->ent); struct trace_seq *s = &iter->seq; - struct blk_io_trace2 *t = (struct blk_io_trace2 *)iter->ent; - const int offset = offsetof(struct blk_io_trace2, sector); struct blk_io_trace old = { .magic = BLK_IO_TRACE_MAGIC | BLK_IO_TRACE_VERSION, .time = iter->ts, + .sector = t->sector, + .bytes = t->bytes, + .action = lower_32_bits(t->action), + .pid = t->pid, + .device = t->device, + .cpu = t->cpu, + .error = t->error, + .pdu_len = t->pdu_len, }; - trace_seq_putmem(s, &old, offset); - trace_seq_putmem(s, &t->sector, - sizeof(old) - offset + t->pdu_len); + trace_seq_putmem(s, &old, sizeof(old)); + trace_seq_putmem(s, t + 1, old.pdu_len); } static enum print_line_t
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