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For backward compatibility, older tooling expects to see the kernel_stack event with a "caller" field that is a fixed size array of 8 addresses. The code now supports more than 8 with an added "size" field that states the real number of entries. But the "caller" field still just looks like a fixed size to user space. Since the tracing macros that create the user space format files also creates the structures that those files represent, the kernel_stack event structure had its "caller" field a fixed size of 8, but in reality, when it is allocated on the ring buffer, it can hold more if the stack trace is bigger that 8 functions. The copying of these entries was simply done with a memcpy(): size = nr_entries * sizeof(unsigned long); memcpy(entry->caller, fstack->calls, size); The FORTIFY_SOURCE logic noticed at runtime that when the nr_entries was larger than 8, that the memcpy() was writing more than what the structure stated it can hold and it complained about it. This is because the FORTIFY_SOURCE code is unaware that the amount allocated is actually enough to hold the size. It does not expect that a fixed size field will hold more than the fixed size. This was originally solved by hiding the caller assignment with some pointer arithmetic. ptr = ring_buffer_data(); entry = ptr; ptr += offsetof(typeof(*entry), caller); memcpy(ptr, fstack->calls, size); But it is considered bad form to hide from kernel hardening. Instead, make it work nicely with FORTIFY_SOURCE by adding a new __stack_array() macro that is specific for this one special use case. The macro will take 4 arguments: type, item, len, field (whereas the __array() macro takes just the first three). This macro will act just like the __array() macro when creating the code to deal with the format file that is exposed to user space. But for the kernel, it will turn the caller field into: type item[] __counted_by(field); or for this instance: unsigned long caller[] __counted_by(size); Now the kernel code can expose the assignment of the caller to the FORTIFY_SOURCE and everyone is happy! Link: https://lore.kernel.org/linux-trace-kernel/20230712105235.5fc441aa@gandalf.local.home/ Link: https://lore.kernel.org/linux-trace-kernel/20230713092605.2ddb9788@rorschach.local.home Cc: Masami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@kernel.org> Cc: Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@arm.com> Cc: Sven Schnelle <svens@linux.ibm.com> Suggested-by: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org> Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (Google) <rostedt@goodmis.org> Reviewed-by: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>
Linux kernel
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There are several guides for kernel developers and users. These guides can
be rendered in a number of formats, like HTML and PDF. Please read
Documentation/admin-guide/README.rst first.
In order to build the documentation, use ``make htmldocs`` or
``make pdfdocs``. The formatted documentation can also be read online at:
https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/
There are various text files in the Documentation/ subdirectory,
several of them using the Restructured Text markup notation.
Please read the Documentation/process/changes.rst file, as it contains the
requirements for building and running the kernel, and information about
the problems which may result by upgrading your kernel.