[PATCH 6.12 0808/1102] tracing: Fix memory corruption from the histogram stacktrace modifier
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From: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Date: 2026-09-17 18:48:23
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6.12-stable review patch. If anyone has any objections, please let me know.
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From: Donggeun Yoo <redacted>
commit a5e70ba87ca8ebc79b4e63de302d03b0625fe153 upstream.
parse_field() sets HIST_FIELD_FL_STACKTRACE from the ".stacktrace"
modifier before it looks the field name up, and nothing afterwards
checks that the name resolved to a field which holds a stacktrace.
create_hist_field() picks HIST_FIELD_FN_STACK on the strength of the
field pointer alone, which reads a __data_loc word from the record and
follows its low 16 bits as an offset into the same record.
event_hist_trigger() takes the first word there as an entry count and
copies that many longs into a 31 entry array:
n_entries = *stack;
memcpy(entries, ++stack, n_entries * sizeof(unsigned long));
Neither end of that copy is bounded, and the count is whatever the event
holds at the offset, so any field will do:
# cd /sys/kernel/tracing/events/sched/sched_process_fork
# echo 'hist:keys=parent_pid.stacktrace' > trigger
# (true)
BUG: kernel NULL pointer dereference, address: 0000000000000008
RIP: 0010:rb_insert_color+0x18/0x130
timerqueue_linked_add+0x7e/0xd0
enqueue_hrtimer+0x39/0xb0
__hrtimer_run_queues+0x10f/0x1f0
</IRQ>
RIP: 0010:memcpy+0xc/0x30
event_hist_trigger+0x165/0x690
The timer interrupt landed on the rbtree the copy had already run over.
No debug options are needed for this; KASAN reports the same write as an
out-of-bounds read of 13835058055416381440 bytes.
Documentation/trace/histogram.rst already states the rule, "must be a
long[] type", so enforce it once the name has been resolved. Names which
resolve to no field at all, "hitcount.stacktrace" and the common_*
pseudo-fields, are refused for the same reason: they hold no stacktrace
to read.
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Fixes: cc5fc8bfc961 ("tracing/histogram: Add stacktrace type")
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260907155045.692664-2-donggeunyoo.kernel@gmail.com (local)
Signed-off-by: Donggeun Yoo <redacted>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
---
kernel/trace/trace_events_hist.c | 12 ++++++++++--
1 file changed, 10 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
--- a/kernel/trace/trace_events_hist.c
+++ b/kernel/trace/trace_events_hist.c@@ -2307,6 +2307,7 @@ parse_field(struct hist_trigger_data *hi struct ftrace_event_field *field = NULL; char *field_name, *modifier, *str; struct trace_array *tr = file->tr; + bool stack_modifier = false; modifier = str = kstrdup(field_str, GFP_KERNEL); if (!modifier)
@@ -2329,9 +2330,10 @@ parse_field(struct hist_trigger_data *hi *flags |= HIST_FIELD_FL_EXECNAME; else if (strcmp(modifier, "syscall") == 0) *flags |= HIST_FIELD_FL_SYSCALL; - else if (strcmp(modifier, "stacktrace") == 0) + else if (strcmp(modifier, "stacktrace") == 0) { *flags |= HIST_FIELD_FL_STACKTRACE; - else if (strcmp(modifier, "log2") == 0) + stack_modifier = true; + } else if (strcmp(modifier, "log2") == 0) *flags |= HIST_FIELD_FL_LOG2; else if (strcmp(modifier, "usecs") == 0) *flags |= HIST_FIELD_FL_TIMESTAMP_USECS;
@@ -2398,6 +2400,12 @@ parse_field(struct hist_trigger_data *hi } } } + + if (stack_modifier && + (!field || field->filter_type != FILTER_STACKTRACE)) { + hist_err(tr, HIST_ERR_BAD_FIELD_MODIFIER, errpos(field_str)); + field = ERR_PTR(-EINVAL); + } out: kfree(str);