tracing: Verify event formats that have "%*p.."

[ Upstream commit ea8d764 ]

The trace event verifier checks the formats of trace events to make sure
that they do not point at memory that is not in the trace event itself or
in data that will never be freed. If an event references data that was
allocated when the event triggered and that same data is freed before the
event is read, then the kernel can crash by reading freed memory.

The verifier runs at boot up (or module load) and scans the print formats
of the events and checks their arguments to make sure that dereferenced
pointers are safe. If the format uses "%*p.." the verifier will ignore it,
and that could be dangerous. Cover this case as well.

Also add to the sample code a use case of "%*pbl".

Link: https://lore.kernel.org/all/bcba4d76-2c3f-4d11-baf0-02905db953dd@oracle.com/

Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Cc: Masami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@kernel.org>
Cc: Mathieu Desnoyers <mathieu.desnoyers@efficios.com>
Fixes: 5013f45 ("tracing: Add check of trace event print fmts for dereferencing pointers")
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/20250327195311.2d89ec66@gandalf.local.home
Reported-by: Libo Chen <libo.chen@oracle.com>
Reviewed-by: Libo Chen <libo.chen@oracle.com>
Tested-by: Libo Chen <libo.chen@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (Google) <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sashal@kernel.org>

kernel/trace/trace_events.c

@@ -470,6 +470,7 @@ static void test_event_printk(struct trace_event_call *call)
 			case '%':
 				continue;
 			case 'p':
+ do_pointer:
 				/* Find dereferencing fields */
 				switch (fmt[i + 1]) {
 				case 'B': case 'R': case 'r':
@@ -498,6 +499,12 @@ static void test_event_printk(struct trace_event_call *call)
 						continue;
 					if (fmt[i + j] == '*') {
 						star = true;
+						/* Handle %*pbl case */
+						if (!j && fmt[i + 1] == 'p') {
+							arg++;
+							i++;
+							goto do_pointer;
+						}
 						continue;
 					}
 					if ((fmt[i + j] == 's')) {

samples/trace_events/trace-events-sample.h

@@ -319,7 +319,8 @@ TRACE_EVENT(foo_bar,
 		__assign_cpumask(cpum, cpumask_bits(mask));
 	),
 
-	TP_printk("foo %s %d %s %s %s %s %s %s (%s) (%s) %s", __entry->foo, __entry->bar,
+	TP_printk("foo %s %d %s %s %s %s %s %s (%s) (%s) %s [%d] %*pbl",
+		  __entry->foo, __entry->bar,
 
 /*
  * Notice here the use of some helper functions. This includes:
@@ -370,7 +371,10 @@ TRACE_EVENT(foo_bar,
 
 		  __get_str(str), __get_str(lstr),
 		  __get_bitmask(cpus), __get_cpumask(cpum),
-		  __get_str(vstr))
+		  __get_str(vstr),
+		  __get_dynamic_array_len(cpus),
+		  __get_dynamic_array_len(cpus),
+		  __get_dynamic_array(cpus))
 );
 
 /*