6.6-stable review patch. If anyone has any objections, please let me know.
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From: Steven Rostedt rostedt@goodmis.org
commit e1a453a57bc76be678bd746f84e3d73f378a9511 upstream.
The following causes a vsnprintf fault:
# echo 's:wake_lat char[] wakee; u64 delta;' >> /sys/kernel/tracing/dynamic_events # echo 'hist:keys=pid:ts=common_timestamp.usecs if !(common_flags & 0x18)' > /sys/kernel/tracing/events/sched/sched_waking/trigger # echo 'hist:keys=next_pid:delta=common_timestamp.usecs-$ts:onmatch(sched.sched_waking).trace(wake_lat,next_comm,$delta)' > /sys/kernel/tracing/events/sched/sched_switch/trigger
Because the synthetic event's "wakee" field is created as a dynamic string (even though the string copied is not). The print format to print the dynamic string changed from "%*s" to "%s" because another location (__set_synth_event_print_fmt()) exported this to user space, and user space did not need that. But it is still used in print_synth_event(), and the output looks like:
<idle>-0 [001] d..5. 193.428167: wake_lat: wakee=(efault)sshd-sessiondelta=155 sshd-session-879 [001] d..5. 193.811080: wake_lat: wakee=(efault)kworker/u34:5delta=58 <idle>-0 [002] d..5. 193.811198: wake_lat: wakee=(efault)bashdelta=91 bash-880 [002] d..5. 193.811371: wake_lat: wakee=(efault)kworker/u35:2delta=21 <idle>-0 [001] d..5. 193.811516: wake_lat: wakee=(efault)sshd-sessiondelta=129 sshd-session-879 [001] d..5. 193.967576: wake_lat: wakee=(efault)kworker/u34:5delta=50
The length isn't needed as the string is always nul terminated. Just print the string and not add the length (which was hard coded to the max string length anyway).
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org Cc: Mathieu Desnoyers mathieu.desnoyers@efficios.com Cc: Tom Zanussi zanussi@kernel.org Cc: Douglas Raillard douglas.raillard@arm.com Acked-by: Masami Hiramatsu (Google) mhiramat@kernel.org Link: https://lore.kernel.org/20250407154139.69955768@gandalf.local.home Fixes: 4d38328eb442d ("tracing: Fix synth event printk format for str fields"); Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (Google) rostedt@goodmis.org Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman gregkh@linuxfoundation.org --- kernel/trace/trace_events_synth.c | 1 - 1 file changed, 1 deletion(-)
--- a/kernel/trace/trace_events_synth.c +++ b/kernel/trace/trace_events_synth.c @@ -377,7 +377,6 @@ static enum print_line_t print_synth_eve union trace_synth_field *data = &entry->fields[n_u64];
trace_seq_printf(s, print_fmt, se->fields[i]->name, - STR_VAR_LEN_MAX, (char *)entry + data->as_dynamic.offset, i == se->n_fields - 1 ? "" : " "); n_u64++;