From: "Steven Rostedt (VMware)" rostedt@goodmis.org

The following commands:

# echo 'read_max u64 size;' > synthetic_events # echo 'hist:keys=common_pid:count=count:onmax($count).trace(read_max,count)' > events/syscalls/sys_enter_read/trigger

Causes:

BUG: kernel NULL pointer dereference, address: 0000000000000000 #PF: supervisor read access in kernel mode #PF: error_code(0x0000) - not-present page PGD 0 P4D 0 Oops: 0000 [#1] PREEMPT SMP CPU: 4 PID: 1763 Comm: bash Not tainted 5.14.0-rc2-test+ #155 Hardware name: Hewlett-Packard HP Compaq Pro 6300 SFF/339A, BIOS K01 v03.03 07/14/2016 RIP: 0010:strcmp+0xc/0x20 Code: 75 f7 31 c0 0f b6 0c 06 88 0c 02 48 83 c0 01 84 c9 75 f1 4c 89 c0 c3 0f 1f 80 00 00 00 00 31 c0 eb 08 48 83 c0 01 84 d2 74 0f <0f> b6 14 07 3a 14 06 74 ef 19 c0 83 c8 01 c3 31 c0 c3 66 90 48 89 RSP: 0018:ffffb5fdc0963ca8 EFLAGS: 00010246 RAX: 0000000000000000 RBX: ffffffffb3a4e040 RCX: 0000000000000000 RDX: 0000000000000000 RSI: ffff9714c0d0b640 RDI: 0000000000000000 RBP: 0000000000000000 R08: 00000022986b7cde R09: ffffffffb3a4dff8 R10: 0000000000000000 R11: 0000000000000000 R12: ffff9714c50603c8 R13: 0000000000000000 R14: ffff97143fdf9e48 R15: ffff9714c01a2210 FS: 00007f1fa6785740(0000) GS:ffff9714da400000(0000) knlGS:0000000000000000 CS: 0010 DS: 0000 ES: 0000 CR0: 0000000080050033 CR2: 0000000000000000 CR3: 000000002d863004 CR4: 00000000001706e0 Call Trace: __find_event_file+0x4e/0x80 action_create+0x6b7/0xeb0 ? kstrdup+0x44/0x60 event_hist_trigger_func+0x1a07/0x2130 trigger_process_regex+0xbd/0x110 event_trigger_write+0x71/0xd0 vfs_write+0xe9/0x310 ksys_write+0x68/0xe0 do_syscall_64+0x3b/0x90 entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x44/0xae RIP: 0033:0x7f1fa6879e87

The problem was the "trace(read_max,count)" where the "count" should be "$count" as "onmax()" only handles variables (although it really should be able to figure out that "count" is a field of sys_enter_read). But there's a path that does not find the variable and ends up passing a NULL for the event, which ends up getting passed to "strcmp()".

Add a check for NULL to return and error on the command with:

# cat error_log hist:syscalls:sys_enter_read: error: Couldn't create or find variable Command: hist:keys=common_pid:count=count:onmax($count).trace(read_max,count) ^ Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20210808003011.4037f8d0@oasis.local.home

Cc: Masami Hiramatsu mhiramat@kernel.org Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org Fixes: 50450603ec9cb tracing: Add 'onmax' hist trigger action support Reviewed-by: Tom Zanussi zanussi@kernel.org Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (VMware) rostedt@goodmis.org --- kernel/trace/trace_events_hist.c | 2 ++ 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+)

diff --git a/kernel/trace/trace_events_hist.c b/kernel/trace/trace_events_hist.c index 949ef09dc537..a48aa2a2875b 100644 --- a/kernel/trace/trace_events_hist.c +++ b/kernel/trace/trace_events_hist.c @@ -3430,6 +3430,8 @@ trace_action_create_field_var(struct hist_trigger_data *hist_data, event = data->match_data.event; }

+ if (!event) + goto free; /* * At this point, we're looking at a field on another * event. Because we can't modify a hist trigger on