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Steven Rostedt (Google) 49bca0710e tracing: Inform kmemleak of saved_cmdlines allocation
commit 2394ac4145 upstream.

The allocation of the struct saved_cmdlines_buffer structure changed from:

        s = kmalloc(sizeof(*s), GFP_KERNEL);
	s->saved_cmdlines = kmalloc_array(TASK_COMM_LEN, val, GFP_KERNEL);

to:

	orig_size = sizeof(*s) + val * TASK_COMM_LEN;
	order = get_order(orig_size);
	size = 1 << (order + PAGE_SHIFT);
	page = alloc_pages(GFP_KERNEL, order);
	if (!page)
		return NULL;

	s = page_address(page);
	memset(s, 0, sizeof(*s));

	s->saved_cmdlines = kmalloc_array(TASK_COMM_LEN, val, GFP_KERNEL);

Where that s->saved_cmdlines allocation looks to be a dangling allocation
to kmemleak. That's because kmemleak only keeps track of kmalloc()
allocations. For allocations that use page_alloc() directly, the kmemleak
needs to be explicitly informed about it.

Add kmemleak_alloc() and kmemleak_free() around the page allocation so
that it doesn't give the following false positive:

unreferenced object 0xffff8881010c8000 (size 32760):
  comm "swapper", pid 0, jiffies 4294667296
  hex dump (first 32 bytes):
    ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff  ................
    ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff  ................
  backtrace (crc ae6ec1b9):
    [<ffffffff86722405>] kmemleak_alloc+0x45/0x80
    [<ffffffff8414028d>] __kmalloc_large_node+0x10d/0x190
    [<ffffffff84146ab1>] __kmalloc+0x3b1/0x4c0
    [<ffffffff83ed7103>] allocate_cmdlines_buffer+0x113/0x230
    [<ffffffff88649c34>] tracer_alloc_buffers.isra.0+0x124/0x460
    [<ffffffff8864a174>] early_trace_init+0x14/0xa0
    [<ffffffff885dd5ae>] start_kernel+0x12e/0x3c0
    [<ffffffff885f5758>] x86_64_start_reservations+0x18/0x30
    [<ffffffff885f582b>] x86_64_start_kernel+0x7b/0x80
    [<ffffffff83a001c3>] secondary_startup_64_no_verify+0x15e/0x16b

Link: https://lore.kernel.org/linux-trace-kernel/87r0hfnr9r.fsf@kernel.org/
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/linux-trace-kernel/20240214112046.09a322d6@gandalf.local.home

Cc: Masami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@kernel.org>
Cc: Mathieu Desnoyers <mathieu.desnoyers@efficios.com>
Cc: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com>
Fixes: 44dc5c41b5 ("tracing: Fix wasted memory in saved_cmdlines logic")
Reported-by: Kalle Valo <kvalo@kernel.org>
Tested-by: Kalle Valo <kvalo@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (Google) <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
2024-02-23 09:25:17 +01:00
arch LoongArch: Fix earlycon parameter if KASAN enabled 2024-02-23 09:25:16 +01:00
block blk-wbt: Fix detection of dirty-throttled tasks 2024-02-23 09:25:16 +01:00
certs certs: Reference revocation list for all keyrings 2023-08-17 20:12:41 +00:00
crypto crypto: algif_hash - Remove bogus SGL free on zero-length error path 2024-02-23 09:25:11 +01:00
Documentation docs: kernel_feat.py: fix build error for missing files 2024-02-23 09:25:16 +01:00
drivers pmdomain: core: Move the unused cleanup to a _sync initcall 2024-02-23 09:25:17 +01:00
fs fs/proc: do_task_stat: move thread_group_cputime_adjusted() outside of lock_task_sighand() 2024-02-23 09:25:17 +01:00
include blk-wbt: Fix detection of dirty-throttled tasks 2024-02-23 09:25:16 +01:00
init update workarounds for gcc "asm goto" issue 2024-02-23 09:24:47 +01:00
io_uring io_uring/net: fix multishot accept overflow handling 2024-02-23 09:25:10 +01:00
ipc Add x86 shadow stack support 2023-08-31 12:20:12 -07:00
kernel tracing: Inform kmemleak of saved_cmdlines allocation 2024-02-23 09:25:17 +01:00
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net can: j1939: Fix UAF in j1939_sk_match_filter during setsockopt(SO_J1939_FILTER) 2024-02-23 09:25:17 +01:00
rust rust: upgrade to Rust 1.73.0 2024-02-16 19:10:43 +01:00
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