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authorMateusz Stachyra2023-07-04 12:27:06 +0200
committerSteven Rostedt (Google)2023-07-05 09:45:45 -0400
commit02b0095e2fbbc060560c1065f86a211d91e27b26 (patch)
tree7790d88202f943c8308f8a91d42bfec2a11ef06d /kernel
parentfc30ace06f250f79381a8e3f6ed92dd68e25a9f5 (diff)
tracing: Fix null pointer dereference in tracing_err_log_open()
Fix an issue in function 'tracing_err_log_open'. The function doesn't call 'seq_open' if the file is opened only with write permissions, which results in 'file->private_data' being left as null. If we then use 'lseek' on that opened file, 'seq_lseek' dereferences 'file->private_data' in 'mutex_lock(&m->lock)', resulting in a kernel panic. Writing to this node requires root privileges, therefore this bug has very little security impact. Tracefs node: /sys/kernel/tracing/error_log Example Kernel panic: Unable to handle kernel NULL pointer dereference at virtual address 0000000000000038 Call trace: mutex_lock+0x30/0x110 seq_lseek+0x34/0xb8 __arm64_sys_lseek+0x6c/0xb8 invoke_syscall+0x58/0x13c el0_svc_common+0xc4/0x10c do_el0_svc+0x24/0x98 el0_svc+0x24/0x88 el0t_64_sync_handler+0x84/0xe4 el0t_64_sync+0x1b4/0x1b8 Code: d503201f aa0803e0 aa1f03e1 aa0103e9 (c8e97d02) ---[ end trace 561d1b49c12cf8a5 ]--- Kernel panic - not syncing: Oops: Fatal exception Link: https://lore.kernel.org/linux-trace-kernel/20230703155237eucms1p4dfb6a19caa14c79eb6c823d127b39024@eucms1p4 Link: https://lore.kernel.org/linux-trace-kernel/20230704102706eucms1p30d7ecdcc287f46ad67679fc8491b2e0f@eucms1p3 Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org Fixes: 8a062902be725 ("tracing: Add tracing error log") Signed-off-by: Mateusz Stachyra <m.stachyra@samsung.com> Suggested-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org> Acked-by: Masami Hiramatsu (Google) <mhiramat@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (Google) <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'kernel')
-rw-r--r--kernel/trace/trace.c2
1 files changed, 1 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/kernel/trace/trace.c b/kernel/trace/trace.c
index 64a4dde073ef..3d34e6fea6b2 100644
--- a/kernel/trace/trace.c
+++ b/kernel/trace/trace.c
@@ -8135,7 +8135,7 @@ static const struct file_operations tracing_err_log_fops = {
.open = tracing_err_log_open,
.write = tracing_err_log_write,
.read = seq_read,
- .llseek = seq_lseek,
+ .llseek = tracing_lseek,
.release = tracing_err_log_release,
};