The patch below does not apply to the 6.1-stable tree. If someone wants it applied there, or to any other stable or longterm tree, then please email the backport, including the original git commit id to stable@vger.kernel.org.
To reproduce the conflict and resubmit, you may use the following commands:
git fetch https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/stable/linux.git/ linux-6.1.y git checkout FETCH_HEAD git cherry-pick -x 54b91e54b113d4f15ab023a44f508251db6e22e7 # <resolve conflicts, build, test, etc.> git commit -s git send-email --to 'stable@vger.kernel.org' --in-reply-to '2025101329-uncorrupt-ruse-3d0e@gregkh' --subject-prefix 'PATCH 6.1.y' HEAD^..
Possible dependencies:
thanks,
greg k-h
------------------ original commit in Linus's tree ------------------
From 54b91e54b113d4f15ab023a44f508251db6e22e7 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Steven Rostedt rostedt@goodmis.org Date: Sat, 11 Oct 2025 11:20:32 -0400 Subject: [PATCH] tracing: Stop fortify-string from warning in tracing_mark_raw_write()
The way tracing_mark_raw_write() records its data is that it has the following structure:
struct { struct trace_entry; int id; char buf[]; };
But memcpy(&entry->id, buf, size) triggers the following warning when the size is greater than the id:
------------[ cut here ]------------ memcpy: detected field-spanning write (size 6) of single field "&entry->id" at kernel/trace/trace.c:7458 (size 4) WARNING: CPU: 7 PID: 995 at kernel/trace/trace.c:7458 write_raw_marker_to_buffer.isra.0+0x1f9/0x2e0 Modules linked in: CPU: 7 UID: 0 PID: 995 Comm: bash Not tainted 6.17.0-test-00007-g60b82183e78a-dirty #211 PREEMPT(voluntary) Hardware name: QEMU Standard PC (Q35 + ICH9, 2009), BIOS 1.17.0-debian-1.17.0-1 04/01/2014 RIP: 0010:write_raw_marker_to_buffer.isra.0+0x1f9/0x2e0 Code: 04 00 75 a7 b9 04 00 00 00 48 89 de 48 89 04 24 48 c7 c2 e0 b1 d1 b2 48 c7 c7 40 b2 d1 b2 c6 05 2d 88 6a 04 01 e8 f7 e8 bd ff <0f> 0b 48 8b 04 24 e9 76 ff ff ff 49 8d 7c 24 04 49 8d 5c 24 08 48 RSP: 0018:ffff888104c3fc78 EFLAGS: 00010292 RAX: 0000000000000000 RBX: 0000000000000006 RCX: 0000000000000000 RDX: 0000000000000000 RSI: 1ffffffff6b363b4 RDI: 0000000000000001 RBP: ffff888100058a00 R08: ffffffffb041d459 R09: ffffed1020987f40 R10: 0000000000000007 R11: 0000000000000001 R12: ffff888100bb9010 R13: 0000000000000000 R14: 00000000000003e3 R15: ffff888134800000 FS: 00007fa61d286740(0000) GS:ffff888286cad000(0000) knlGS:0000000000000000 CS: 0010 DS: 0000 ES: 0000 CR0: 0000000080050033 CR2: 0000560d28d509f1 CR3: 00000001047a4006 CR4: 0000000000172ef0 Call Trace: <TASK> tracing_mark_raw_write+0x1fe/0x290 ? __pfx_tracing_mark_raw_write+0x10/0x10 ? security_file_permission+0x50/0xf0 ? rw_verify_area+0x6f/0x4b0 vfs_write+0x1d8/0xdd0 ? __pfx_vfs_write+0x10/0x10 ? __pfx_css_rstat_updated+0x10/0x10 ? count_memcg_events+0xd9/0x410 ? fdget_pos+0x53/0x5e0 ksys_write+0x182/0x200 ? __pfx_ksys_write+0x10/0x10 ? do_user_addr_fault+0x4af/0xa30 do_syscall_64+0x63/0x350 entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x76/0x7e RIP: 0033:0x7fa61d318687 Code: 48 89 fa 4c 89 df e8 58 b3 00 00 8b 93 08 03 00 00 59 5e 48 83 f8 fc 74 1a 5b c3 0f 1f 84 00 00 00 00 00 48 8b 44 24 10 0f 05 <5b> c3 0f 1f 80 00 00 00 00 83 e2 39 83 fa 08 75 de e8 23 ff ff ff RSP: 002b:00007ffd87fe0120 EFLAGS: 00000202 ORIG_RAX: 0000000000000001 RAX: ffffffffffffffda RBX: 00007fa61d286740 RCX: 00007fa61d318687 RDX: 0000000000000006 RSI: 0000560d28d509f0 RDI: 0000000000000001 RBP: 0000560d28d509f0 R08: 0000000000000000 R09: 0000000000000000 R10: 0000000000000000 R11: 0000000000000202 R12: 0000000000000006 R13: 00007fa61d4715c0 R14: 00007fa61d46ee80 R15: 0000000000000000 </TASK> ---[ end trace 0000000000000000 ]---
This is because fortify string sees that the size of entry->id is only 4 bytes, but it is writing more than that. But this is OK as the dynamic_array is allocated to handle that copy.
The size allocated on the ring buffer was actually a bit too big:
size = sizeof(*entry) + cnt;
But cnt includes the 'id' and the buffer data, so adding cnt to the size of *entry actually allocates too much on the ring buffer.
Change the allocation to:
size = struct_size(entry, buf, cnt - sizeof(entry->id));
and the memcpy() to unsafe_memcpy() with an added justification.
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org Cc: Masami Hiramatsu mhiramat@kernel.org Cc: Mathieu Desnoyers mathieu.desnoyers@efficios.com Cc: Andrew Morton akpm@linux-foundation.org Link: https://lore.kernel.org/20251011112032.77be18e4@gandalf.local.home Fixes: 64cf7d058a00 ("tracing: Have trace_marker use per-cpu data to read user space") Reported-by: syzbot+9a2ede1643175f350105@syzkaller.appspotmail.com Closes: https://lore.kernel.org/all/68e973f5.050a0220.1186a4.0010.GAE@google.com/ Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (Google) rostedt@goodmis.org
diff --git a/kernel/trace/trace.c b/kernel/trace/trace.c index bbb89206a891..eb256378e65b 100644 --- a/kernel/trace/trace.c +++ b/kernel/trace/trace.c @@ -7441,7 +7441,8 @@ static ssize_t write_raw_marker_to_buffer(struct trace_array *tr, ssize_t written; size_t size;
- size = sizeof(*entry) + cnt; + /* cnt includes both the entry->id and the data behind it. */ + size = struct_size(entry, buf, cnt - sizeof(entry->id));
buffer = tr->array_buffer.buffer;
@@ -7455,7 +7456,10 @@ static ssize_t write_raw_marker_to_buffer(struct trace_array *tr, return -EBADF;
entry = ring_buffer_event_data(event); - memcpy(&entry->id, buf, cnt); + unsafe_memcpy(&entry->id, buf, cnt, + "id and content already reserved on ring buffer" + "'buf' includes the 'id' and the data." + "'entry' was allocated with cnt from 'id'."); written = cnt;
__buffer_unlock_commit(buffer, event);