On Tue, 06 Feb 2018 17:43:39 -0500
Steven Rostedt <[email protected]> wrote:

> From: "Steven Rostedt (VMware)" <[email protected]>
> 
> __unregister_ftrace_function_probe() will incorrectly parse the glob filter
> because it resets the search variable that was setup by filter_parse_regex().
> 
> Al Viro reported this:
> 
>     After that call of filter_parse_regex() we could have func_g.search not
>     equal to glob only if glob started with '!' or '*'.  In the former case
>     we would've buggered off with -EINVAL (not = 1).  In the latter we
>     would've set func_g.search equal to glob + 1, calculated the length of
>     that thing in func_g.len and proceeded to reset func_g.search back to
>     glob.
> 
>     Suppose the glob is e.g. *foo*.  We end up with
>           func_g.type = MATCH_MIDDLE_ONLY;
>           func_g.len = 3;
>           func_g.search = "*foo";
>     Feeding that to ftrace_match_record() will not do anything sane - we
>     will be looking for names containing "*foo" (->len is ignored for that
>     one).
> 
> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/[email protected]
> 
> Cc: [email protected]
> Cc: Dmitry Safonov <[email protected]>
> Fixes: 3ba009297149f ("ftrace: Introduce ftrace_glob structure")
> Reported-by: Al Viro <[email protected]>
> Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (VMware) <[email protected]>

Reviewed-by: Masami Hiramatsu <[email protected]>

Thank you!

> ---
>  kernel/trace/ftrace.c | 1 -
>  1 file changed, 1 deletion(-)
> 
> diff --git a/kernel/trace/ftrace.c b/kernel/trace/ftrace.c
> index dabd9d167d42..eac9ce2c57a2 100644
> --- a/kernel/trace/ftrace.c
> +++ b/kernel/trace/ftrace.c
> @@ -4456,7 +4456,6 @@ unregister_ftrace_function_probe_func(char *glob, 
> struct trace_array *tr,
>               func_g.type = filter_parse_regex(glob, strlen(glob),
>                                                &func_g.search, &not);
>               func_g.len = strlen(func_g.search);
> -             func_g.search = glob;
>  
>               /* we do not support '!' for function probes */
>               if (WARN_ON(not))
> -- 
> 2.15.1
> 
> 


-- 
Masami Hiramatsu <[email protected]>

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