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| author | Masami Hiramatsu (Google) <mhiramat@kernel.org> | 2026-07-17 11:51:49 +0900 |
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| committer | Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org> | 2026-07-24 13:43:17 -0400 |
| commit | b4eb07bde606c2096b24252be589e735eff6d413 (patch) | |
| tree | 434f147f5da10ecde3491c8c559fb26ffbf0d293 /kernel | |
| parent | 144f29e85702234b23d2a62abf723e6a17eb5427 (diff) | |
tracing: Fix union collision of module and refcnt for dynamic events
In 'struct trace_event_call', the 'module' pointer and the 'refcnt'
atomic variable share the same memory space in a union. For dynamic
events, the union member is 'refcnt', which acts as an active
reference counter.
When a dynamic event (such as kprobe, uprobe, fprobe, eprobe, or
wprobe) has a non-zero reference count (e.g. due to active event
triggers or perf attachments), its 'call->module' evaluates to a
small non-zero integer instead of NULL.
When filtering or setting events for a specific module (e.g., writing
':mod:<module>' to 'set_event'), the code in
'__ftrace_set_clr_event_nolock()' and 'update_event_fields()' reads
'call->module' directly without checking whether the event is dynamic.
This causes the kernel to treat the small integer (refcnt) as a
'struct module' pointer, leading to a NULL/invalid pointer dereference
(Oops) when dereferencing the module name.
Fix this by ensuring that the 'TRACE_EVENT_FL_DYNAMIC' flag is checked
before treating 'call->module' as a valid pointer in these code paths.
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/178425670947.84440.11344393611899824907.stgit@devnote2
Fixes: 4c86bc531e60 ("tracing: Add :mod: command to enabled module events")
Assisted-by: Antigravity:gemini-3.5-flash
Signed-off-by: Masami Hiramatsu (Google) <mhiramat@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'kernel')
| -rw-r--r-- | kernel/trace/trace_events.c | 4 |
1 files changed, 3 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/kernel/trace/trace_events.c b/kernel/trace/trace_events.c index c46e623e7e0d..956692856fa8 100644 --- a/kernel/trace/trace_events.c +++ b/kernel/trace/trace_events.c @@ -1350,7 +1350,9 @@ __ftrace_set_clr_event_nolock(struct trace_array *tr, const char *match, call = file->event_call; /* If a module is specified, skip events that are not that module */ - if (module && (!call->module || strcmp(module_name(call->module), module))) + if (module && + ((call->flags & TRACE_EVENT_FL_DYNAMIC) || + !call->module || strcmp(module_name(call->module), module))) continue; name = trace_event_name(call); |