Thread (18 messages) 18 messages, 5 authors, 2023-09-25

[PATCH] tracing/user_events: align uaddr on unsigned long alignment

STALE1103d LANDED

From: Clément Léger <hidden>
Date: 2023-09-14 13:11:53
Also in: lkml
Subsystem: the rest, tracing · Maintainers: Linus Torvalds, Steven Rostedt, Masami Hiramatsu

Landed in mainline as 2de9ee940542 on 2023-09-30.

enabler->uaddr can be aligned on 32 or 64 bits. If aligned on 32 bits,
this will result in a misaligned access on 64 bits architectures since
set_bit()/clear_bit() are expecting an unsigned long (aligned) pointer.
On architecture that do not support misaligned access, this will crash
the kernel. Align uaddr on unsigned long size to avoid such behavior.
This bug was found while running kselftests on RISC-V.

Fixes: 7235759084a4 ("tracing/user_events: Use remote writes for event enablement")
Signed-off-by: Clément Léger <redacted>
---
 kernel/trace/trace_events_user.c | 12 +++++++++---
 1 file changed, 9 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)
diff --git a/kernel/trace/trace_events_user.c b/kernel/trace/trace_events_user.c
index 6f046650e527..580c0fe4b23e 100644
--- a/kernel/trace/trace_events_user.c
+++ b/kernel/trace/trace_events_user.c
@@ -479,7 +479,7 @@ static int user_event_enabler_write(struct user_event_mm *mm,
 				    bool fixup_fault, int *attempt)
 {
 	unsigned long uaddr = enabler->addr;
-	unsigned long *ptr;
+	unsigned long *ptr, bit_offset;
 	struct page *page;
 	void *kaddr;
 	int ret;
@@ -511,13 +511,19 @@ static int user_event_enabler_write(struct user_event_mm *mm,
 	}
 
 	kaddr = kmap_local_page(page);
+
+	bit_offset = uaddr & (sizeof(unsigned long) - 1);
+	if (bit_offset) {
+		bit_offset *= 8;
+		uaddr &= ~(sizeof(unsigned long) - 1);
+	}
 	ptr = kaddr + (uaddr & ~PAGE_MASK);
 
 	/* Update bit atomically, user tracers must be atomic as well */
 	if (enabler->event && enabler->event->status)
-		set_bit(ENABLE_BIT(enabler), ptr);
+		set_bit(ENABLE_BIT(enabler) + bit_offset, ptr);
 	else
-		clear_bit(ENABLE_BIT(enabler), ptr);
+		clear_bit(ENABLE_BIT(enabler) + bit_offset, ptr);
 
 	kunmap_local(kaddr);
 	unpin_user_pages_dirty_lock(&page, 1, true);
-- 
2.40.1
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