[PATCH 1/2] tracing/user_events: Handle ioctls from 32-bit tasks
COOLING7d
From: Danish Khateeb <hidden>
Date: 2026-09-28 17:14:29
Also in:
linux-kselftest, lkml, stable
Subsystem:
the rest, tracing · Maintainers:
Linus Torvalds, Steven Rostedt, Masami Hiramatsu
The DIAG_IOCSREG, DIAG_IOCSDEL and DIAG_IOCSUNREG ioctl numbers are
defined with pointer types, so their size field is 4 for 32-bit
userspace and 8 for 64-bit userspace. user_events_data has no
compat_ioctl handler, so on a 64-bit kernel every one of these ioctls
from a 32-bit task fails with -ENOTTY and such a task cannot register
any user events.
struct user_reg and struct user_unreg are packed and only use fixed-size
fields, so they have the same layout for 32-bit and 64-bit tasks. Add a
compat_ioctl handler that maps the 32-bit ioctl numbers to the native
ones and passes the argument through compat_ptr().
Fixes: 7f5a08c79df3 ("user_events: Add minimal support for trace_event into ftrace")
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Assisted-by: LLM
Signed-off-by: Danish Khateeb <redacted>
---
Notes:
Tested on x86_64 in QEMU (v7.3-rc5 plus this series, KASAN and lockdep):
- A 32-bit program that registers and unregisters an event gets -ENOTTY
from DIAG_IOCSREG before and works after.
- tools/testing/selftests/user_events built with -m32 (with 2/2): all
four tests fail before and pass after, in three runs each. The
64-bit build passes before and after. No splats.
Also built with CONFIG_COMPAT=n on x86_64 and with CONFIG_COMPAT=y on
riscv64, both with W=1.
kernel/trace/trace_events_user.c | 32 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
1 file changed, 32 insertions(+)
diff --git a/kernel/trace/trace_events_user.c b/kernel/trace/trace_events_user.c
index f658c3a77aa7..07cfbb5a17de 100644
--- a/kernel/trace/trace_events_user.c
+++ b/kernel/trace/trace_events_user.c@@ -8,6 +8,7 @@ #include <linux/bitmap.h> #include <linux/cdev.h> +#include <linux/compat.h> #include <linux/hashtable.h> #include <linux/list.h> #include <linux/io.h>
@@ -2737,6 +2738,36 @@ static long user_events_ioctl(struct file *file, unsigned int cmd, return ret; } +#ifdef CONFIG_COMPAT +/* + * These IOCTLs encode the size of a pointer and thus change their numbers + * between 32 and 64 bits. The structs they point to have the same layout. + */ +#define DIAG_IOCSREG_COMPAT _IOWR(DIAG_IOC_MAGIC, 0, compat_uptr_t) +#define DIAG_IOCSDEL_COMPAT _IOW(DIAG_IOC_MAGIC, 1, compat_uptr_t) +#define DIAG_IOCSUNREG_COMPAT _IOW(DIAG_IOC_MAGIC, 2, compat_uptr_t) + +static long user_events_compat_ioctl(struct file *file, unsigned int cmd, + unsigned long uarg) +{ + switch (cmd) { + case DIAG_IOCSREG_COMPAT: + cmd = DIAG_IOCSREG; + break; + case DIAG_IOCSDEL_COMPAT: + cmd = DIAG_IOCSDEL; + break; + case DIAG_IOCSUNREG_COMPAT: + cmd = DIAG_IOCSUNREG; + break; + } + + return user_events_ioctl(file, cmd, (unsigned long)compat_ptr(uarg)); +} +#else +#define user_events_compat_ioctl NULL +#endif + /* * Handles the final close of the file from user mode. */
@@ -2787,6 +2818,7 @@ static const struct file_operations user_data_fops = { .write = user_events_write, .write_iter = user_events_write_iter, .unlocked_ioctl = user_events_ioctl, + .compat_ioctl = user_events_compat_ioctl, .release = user_events_release, };
base-commit: 72d3fcf802c45d00b300f25b848a93c3a2bd7c7e -- 2.55.0