From: Steven Rostedt rostedt@goodmis.org
The meta data for a mapped ring buffer contains an array of indexes of all the subbuffers. The first entry is the reader page, and the rest of the entries lay out the order of the subbuffers in how the ring buffer link list is to be created.
The validator currently makes sure that all the entries are within the range of 0 and nr_subbufs. But it does not check if there are any duplicates.
While working on the ring buffer, I corrupted this array, where I added duplicates. The validator did not catch it and created the ring buffer link list on top of it. Luckily, the corruption was only that the reader page was also in the writer path and only presented corrupted data but did not crash the kernel. But if there were duplicates in the writer side, then it could corrupt the ring buffer link list and cause a crash.
Create a bitmask array with the size of the number of subbuffers. Then clear it. When walking through the subbuf array checking to see if the entries are within the range, test if its bit is already set in the subbuf_mask. If it is, then there is duplicates and fail the validation. If not, set the corresponding bit and continue.
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org Cc: Masami Hiramatsu mhiramat@kernel.org Cc: Mathieu Desnoyers mathieu.desnoyers@efficios.com Cc: Vincent Donnefort vdonnefort@google.com Link: https://lore.kernel.org/20250214102820.7509ddea@gandalf.local.home Fixes: c76883f18e59b ("ring-buffer: Add test if range of boot buffer is valid") Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (Google) rostedt@goodmis.org --- kernel/trace/ring_buffer.c | 22 ++++++++++++++++++++-- 1 file changed, 20 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
diff --git a/kernel/trace/ring_buffer.c b/kernel/trace/ring_buffer.c index 07b421115692..0419d41a2060 100644 --- a/kernel/trace/ring_buffer.c +++ b/kernel/trace/ring_buffer.c @@ -1672,7 +1672,8 @@ static void *rb_range_buffer(struct ring_buffer_per_cpu *cpu_buffer, int idx) * must be the same. */ static bool rb_meta_valid(struct ring_buffer_meta *meta, int cpu, - struct trace_buffer *buffer, int nr_pages) + struct trace_buffer *buffer, int nr_pages, + unsigned long *subbuf_mask) { int subbuf_size = PAGE_SIZE; struct buffer_data_page *subbuf; @@ -1680,6 +1681,9 @@ static bool rb_meta_valid(struct ring_buffer_meta *meta, int cpu, unsigned long buffers_end; int i;
+ if (!subbuf_mask) + return false; + /* Check the meta magic and meta struct size */ if (meta->magic != RING_BUFFER_META_MAGIC || meta->struct_size != sizeof(*meta)) { @@ -1712,6 +1716,8 @@ static bool rb_meta_valid(struct ring_buffer_meta *meta, int cpu,
subbuf = rb_subbufs_from_meta(meta);
+ bitmap_clear(subbuf_mask, 0, meta->nr_subbufs); + /* Is the meta buffers and the subbufs themselves have correct data? */ for (i = 0; i < meta->nr_subbufs; i++) { if (meta->buffers[i] < 0 || @@ -1725,6 +1731,12 @@ static bool rb_meta_valid(struct ring_buffer_meta *meta, int cpu, return false; }
+ if (test_bit(meta->buffers[i], subbuf_mask)) { + pr_info("Ring buffer boot meta [%d] array has duplicates\n", cpu); + return false; + } + + set_bit(meta->buffers[i], subbuf_mask); subbuf = (void *)subbuf + subbuf_size; }
@@ -1889,17 +1901,22 @@ static void rb_meta_init_text_addr(struct ring_buffer_meta *meta) static void rb_range_meta_init(struct trace_buffer *buffer, int nr_pages) { struct ring_buffer_meta *meta; + unsigned long *subbuf_mask; unsigned long delta; void *subbuf; int cpu; int i;
+ /* Create a mask to test the subbuf array */ + subbuf_mask = bitmap_alloc(nr_pages + 1, GFP_KERNEL); + /* If subbuf_mask fails to allocate, then rb_meta_valid() will return false */ + for (cpu = 0; cpu < nr_cpu_ids; cpu++) { void *next_meta;
meta = rb_range_meta(buffer, nr_pages, cpu);
- if (rb_meta_valid(meta, cpu, buffer, nr_pages)) { + if (rb_meta_valid(meta, cpu, buffer, nr_pages, subbuf_mask)) { /* Make the mappings match the current address */ subbuf = rb_subbufs_from_meta(meta); delta = (unsigned long)subbuf - meta->first_buffer; @@ -1943,6 +1960,7 @@ static void rb_range_meta_init(struct trace_buffer *buffer, int nr_pages) subbuf += meta->subbuf_size; } } + bitmap_free(subbuf_mask); }
static void *rbm_start(struct seq_file *m, loff_t *pos)