From: Steven Rostedt Date: Thu, 17 Apr 2025 22:30:03 +0000 (-0400) Subject: tracing: Fix filter string testing X-Git-Url: https://www.infradead.org/git/?a=commitdiff_plain;h=a8c5b0ed89a3f2c81c6ae0b041394e6eea0e7024;p=nvme.git tracing: Fix filter string testing The filter string testing uses strncpy_from_kernel/user_nofault() to retrieve the string to test the filter against. The if() statement was incorrect as it considered 0 as a fault, when it is only negative that it faulted. Running the following commands: # cd /sys/kernel/tracing # echo "filename.ustring ~ \"/proc*\"" > events/syscalls/sys_enter_openat/filter # echo 1 > events/syscalls/sys_enter_openat/enable # ls /proc/$$/maps # cat trace Would produce nothing, but with the fix it will produce something like: ls-1192 [007] ..... 8169.828333: sys_openat(dfd: ffffffffffffff9c, filename: 7efc18359904, flags: 80000, mode: 0) Link: https://lore.kernel.org/all/CAEf4BzbVPQ=BjWztmEwBPRKHUwNfKBkS3kce-Rzka6zvbQeVpg@mail.gmail.com/ Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org Cc: Masami Hiramatsu Cc: Mathieu Desnoyers Cc: Andrew Morton Link: https://lore.kernel.org/20250417183003.505835fb@gandalf.local.home Fixes: 77360f9bbc7e5 ("tracing: Add test for user space strings when filtering on string pointers") Reported-by: Andrii Nakryiko Reported-by: Mykyta Yatsenko Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (Google) --- diff --git a/kernel/trace/trace_events_filter.c b/kernel/trace/trace_events_filter.c index 0993dfc1c5c1..2048560264bb 100644 --- a/kernel/trace/trace_events_filter.c +++ b/kernel/trace/trace_events_filter.c @@ -808,7 +808,7 @@ static __always_inline char *test_string(char *str) kstr = ubuf->buffer; /* For safety, do not trust the string pointer */ - if (!strncpy_from_kernel_nofault(kstr, str, USTRING_BUF_SIZE)) + if (strncpy_from_kernel_nofault(kstr, str, USTRING_BUF_SIZE) < 0) return NULL; return kstr; } @@ -827,7 +827,7 @@ static __always_inline char *test_ustring(char *str) /* user space address? */ ustr = (char __user *)str; - if (!strncpy_from_user_nofault(kstr, ustr, USTRING_BUF_SIZE)) + if (strncpy_from_user_nofault(kstr, ustr, USTRING_BUF_SIZE) < 0) return NULL; return kstr;