[PATCH] tracing/syscalls: ignore numbers outside NR_syscalls' range

Rabin Vincent rabin at rab.in
Wed Oct 29 15:06:58 PDT 2014


ARM has some private syscalls (for example, set_tls(2)) which lie
outside the range of NR_syscalls.  If any of these are called while
syscall tracing is being performed, out-of-bounds array access will
occur in the ftrace and perf sys_{enter,exit} handlers.

 # trace-cmd record -e raw_syscalls:* true && trace-cmd report
 ...
 true-653   [000]   384.675777: sys_enter:            NR 192 (0, 1000, 3, 4000022, ffffffff, 0)
 true-653   [000]   384.675812: sys_exit:             NR 192 = 1995915264
 true-653   [000]   384.675971: sys_enter:            NR 983045 (76f74480, 76f74000, 76f74b28, 76f74480, 76f76f74, 1)
 true-653   [000]   384.675988: sys_exit:             NR 983045 = 0
 ...

 # trace-cmd record -e syscalls:* true
 [   17.289329] Unable to handle kernel paging request at virtual address aaaaaace
 [   17.289590] pgd = 9e71c000
 [   17.289696] [aaaaaace] *pgd=00000000
 [   17.289985] Internal error: Oops: 5 [#1] PREEMPT SMP ARM
 [   17.290169] Modules linked in:
 [   17.290391] CPU: 0 PID: 704 Comm: true Not tainted 3.18.0-rc2+ #21
 [   17.290585] task: 9f4dab00 ti: 9e710000 task.ti: 9e710000
 [   17.290747] PC is at ftrace_syscall_enter+0x48/0x1f8
 [   17.290866] LR is at syscall_trace_enter+0x124/0x184

Fix this by ignoring out-of-NR_syscalls-bounds syscall numbers.

Signed-off-by: Rabin Vincent <rabin at rab.in>
---
 kernel/trace/trace_syscalls.c | 8 ++++----
 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)

diff --git a/kernel/trace/trace_syscalls.c b/kernel/trace/trace_syscalls.c
index 4dc8b79..29228c4 100644
--- a/kernel/trace/trace_syscalls.c
+++ b/kernel/trace/trace_syscalls.c
@@ -313,7 +313,7 @@ static void ftrace_syscall_enter(void *data, struct pt_regs *regs, long id)
 	int size;
 
 	syscall_nr = trace_get_syscall_nr(current, regs);
-	if (syscall_nr < 0)
+	if (syscall_nr < 0 || syscall_nr >= NR_syscalls)
 		return;
 
 	/* Here we're inside tp handler's rcu_read_lock_sched (__DO_TRACE) */
@@ -360,7 +360,7 @@ static void ftrace_syscall_exit(void *data, struct pt_regs *regs, long ret)
 	int syscall_nr;
 
 	syscall_nr = trace_get_syscall_nr(current, regs);
-	if (syscall_nr < 0)
+	if (syscall_nr < 0 || syscall_nr >= NR_syscalls)
 		return;
 
 	/* Here we're inside tp handler's rcu_read_lock_sched (__DO_TRACE()) */
@@ -567,7 +567,7 @@ static void perf_syscall_enter(void *ignore, struct pt_regs *regs, long id)
 	int size;
 
 	syscall_nr = trace_get_syscall_nr(current, regs);
-	if (syscall_nr < 0)
+	if (syscall_nr < 0 || syscall_nr >= NR_syscalls)
 		return;
 	if (!test_bit(syscall_nr, enabled_perf_enter_syscalls))
 		return;
@@ -641,7 +641,7 @@ static void perf_syscall_exit(void *ignore, struct pt_regs *regs, long ret)
 	int size;
 
 	syscall_nr = trace_get_syscall_nr(current, regs);
-	if (syscall_nr < 0)
+	if (syscall_nr < 0 || syscall_nr >= NR_syscalls)
 		return;
 	if (!test_bit(syscall_nr, enabled_perf_exit_syscalls))
 		return;
-- 
2.1.1




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