From: Tomas Glozar tglozar@redhat.com
We have observed kernel panics when using timerlat with stack saving, with the following dmesg output:
memcpy: detected buffer overflow: 88 byte write of buffer size 0 WARNING: CPU: 2 PID: 8153 at lib/string_helpers.c:1032 __fortify_report+0x55/0xa0 CPU: 2 UID: 0 PID: 8153 Comm: timerlatu/2 Kdump: loaded Not tainted 6.15.3-200.fc42.x86_64 #1 PREEMPT(lazy) Call Trace: <TASK> ? trace_buffer_lock_reserve+0x2a/0x60 __fortify_panic+0xd/0xf __timerlat_dump_stack.cold+0xd/0xd timerlat_dump_stack.part.0+0x47/0x80 timerlat_fd_read+0x36d/0x390 vfs_read+0xe2/0x390 ? syscall_exit_to_user_mode+0x1d5/0x210 ksys_read+0x73/0xe0 do_syscall_64+0x7b/0x160 ? exc_page_fault+0x7e/0x1a0 entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x76/0x7e
__timerlat_dump_stack() constructs the ftrace stack entry like this:
struct stack_entry *entry; ... memcpy(&entry->caller, fstack->calls, size); entry->size = fstack->nr_entries;
Since commit e7186af7fb26 ("tracing: Add back FORTIFY_SOURCE logic to kernel_stack event structure"), struct stack_entry marks its caller field with __counted_by(size). At the time of the memcpy, entry->size contains garbage from the ringbuffer, which under some circumstances is zero, triggering a kernel panic by buffer overflow.
Populate the size field before the memcpy so that the out-of-bounds check knows the correct size. This is analogous to __ftrace_trace_stack().
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org Cc: John Kacur jkacur@redhat.com Cc: Luis Goncalves lgoncalv@redhat.com Cc: Attila Fazekas afazekas@redhat.com Link: https://lore.kernel.org/20250716143601.7313-1-tglozar@redhat.com Fixes: e7186af7fb26 ("tracing: Add back FORTIFY_SOURCE logic to kernel_stack event structure") Signed-off-by: Tomas Glozar tglozar@redhat.com Acked-by: Masami Hiramatsu (Google) mhiramat@kernel.org Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (Google) rostedt@goodmis.org --- kernel/trace/trace_osnoise.c | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
diff --git a/kernel/trace/trace_osnoise.c b/kernel/trace/trace_osnoise.c index 6819b93309ce..fd259da0aa64 100644 --- a/kernel/trace/trace_osnoise.c +++ b/kernel/trace/trace_osnoise.c @@ -637,8 +637,8 @@ __timerlat_dump_stack(struct trace_buffer *buffer, struct trace_stack *fstack, u
entry = ring_buffer_event_data(event);
- memcpy(&entry->caller, fstack->calls, size); entry->size = fstack->nr_entries; + memcpy(&entry->caller, fstack->calls, size);
trace_buffer_unlock_commit_nostack(buffer, event); }