@@ -230,6 +230,16 @@ Currently the caret ('^') for an error always appears at the beginning of
the filter string; the error message should still be useful though
even without more accurate position info.
+5.2.1 Filter limitations
+------------------------
+
+If a filter is placed on a string pointer ``(char *)`` that does not point
+to a string on the ring buffer, but instead points to kernel or user space
+memory, then, for safety reasons, at most 1024 bytes of the content is
+copied onto a temporary buffer to do the compare. If the copy of the memory
+faults (the pointer points to memory that should not be accessed), then the
+string compare will be treated as not matching.
+
5.3 Clearing filters
--------------------
@@ -5,6 +5,7 @@
* Copyright (C) 2009 Tom Zanussi <tzanussi@gmail.com>
*/
+#include <linux/uaccess.h>
#include <linux/module.h>
#include <linux/ctype.h>
#include <linux/mutex.h>
@@ -654,6 +655,40 @@ DEFINE_EQUALITY_PRED(32);
DEFINE_EQUALITY_PRED(16);
DEFINE_EQUALITY_PRED(8);
+/* user space strings temp buffer */
+#define USTRING_BUF_SIZE 1024
+
+struct ustring_buffer {
+ char buffer[USTRING_BUF_SIZE];
+};
+
+static __percpu struct ustring_buffer *ustring_per_cpu;
+
+static __always_inline char *test_string(char *str)
+{
+ struct ustring_buffer *ubuf;
+ char __user *ustr;
+ char *kstr;
+
+ if (!ustring_per_cpu)
+ return NULL;
+
+ ubuf = this_cpu_ptr(ustring_per_cpu);
+ kstr = ubuf->buffer;
+
+ if (likely((unsigned long)str >= TASK_SIZE)) {
+ /* For safety, do not trust the string pointer */
+ if (!strncpy_from_kernel_nofault(kstr, str, USTRING_BUF_SIZE))
+ return NULL;
+ } else {
+ /* user space address? */
+ ustr = (char __user *)str;
+ if (!strncpy_from_user_nofault(kstr, ustr, USTRING_BUF_SIZE))
+ return NULL;
+ }
+ return kstr;
+}
+
/* Filter predicate for fixed sized arrays of characters */
static int filter_pred_string(struct filter_pred *pred, void *event)
{
@@ -671,10 +706,16 @@ static int filter_pred_string(struct filter_pred *pred, void *event)
static int filter_pred_pchar(struct filter_pred *pred, void *event)
{
char **addr = (char **)(event + pred->offset);
+ char *str;
int cmp, match;
- int len = strlen(*addr) + 1; /* including tailing '\0' */
+ int len;
- cmp = pred->regex.match(*addr, &pred->regex, len);
+ str = test_string(*addr);
+ if (!str)
+ return 0;
+
+ len = strlen(str) + 1; /* including tailing '\0' */
+ cmp = pred->regex.match(str, &pred->regex, len);
match = cmp ^ pred->not;
@@ -1348,8 +1389,17 @@ static int parse_pred(const char *str, void *data,
pred->fn = filter_pred_strloc;
} else if (field->filter_type == FILTER_RDYN_STRING)
pred->fn = filter_pred_strrelloc;
- else
+ else {
+
+ if (!ustring_per_cpu) {
+ /* Once allocated, keep it around for good */
+ ustring_per_cpu = alloc_percpu(struct ustring_buffer);
+ if (!ustring_per_cpu)
+ goto err_mem;
+ }
+
pred->fn = filter_pred_pchar;
+ }
/* go past the last quote */
i++;
@@ -1415,6 +1465,9 @@ static int parse_pred(const char *str, void *data,
err_free:
kfree(pred);
return -EINVAL;
+err_mem:
+ kfree(pred);
+ return -ENOMEM;
}
enum {