Commit 02b0095e authored by Mateusz Stachyra's avatar Mateusz Stachyra Committed by Steven Rostedt (Google)

tracing: Fix null pointer dereference in tracing_err_log_open()

Fix an issue in function 'tracing_err_log_open'.
The function doesn't call 'seq_open' if the file is opened only with
write permissions, which results in 'file->private_data' being left as null.
If we then use 'lseek' on that opened file, 'seq_lseek' dereferences
'file->private_data' in 'mutex_lock(&m->lock)', resulting in a kernel panic.
Writing to this node requires root privileges, therefore this bug
has very little security impact.

Tracefs node: /sys/kernel/tracing/error_log

Example Kernel panic:

Unable to handle kernel NULL pointer dereference at virtual address 0000000000000038
Call trace:
 mutex_lock+0x30/0x110
 seq_lseek+0x34/0xb8
 __arm64_sys_lseek+0x6c/0xb8
 invoke_syscall+0x58/0x13c
 el0_svc_common+0xc4/0x10c
 do_el0_svc+0x24/0x98
 el0_svc+0x24/0x88
 el0t_64_sync_handler+0x84/0xe4
 el0t_64_sync+0x1b4/0x1b8
Code: d503201f aa0803e0 aa1f03e1 aa0103e9 (c8e97d02)
---[ end trace 561d1b49c12cf8a5 ]---
Kernel panic - not syncing: Oops: Fatal exception

Link: https://lore.kernel.org/linux-trace-kernel/20230703155237eucms1p4dfb6a19caa14c79eb6c823d127b39024@eucms1p4
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/linux-trace-kernel/20230704102706eucms1p30d7ecdcc287f46ad67679fc8491b2e0f@eucms1p3

Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Fixes: 8a062902 ("tracing: Add tracing error log")
Signed-off-by: default avatarMateusz Stachyra <m.stachyra@samsung.com>
Suggested-by: default avatarSteven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Acked-by: default avatarMasami Hiramatsu (Google) <mhiramat@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: default avatarSteven Rostedt (Google) <rostedt@goodmis.org>
parent fc30ace0
...@@ -8135,7 +8135,7 @@ static const struct file_operations tracing_err_log_fops = { ...@@ -8135,7 +8135,7 @@ static const struct file_operations tracing_err_log_fops = {
.open = tracing_err_log_open, .open = tracing_err_log_open,
.write = tracing_err_log_write, .write = tracing_err_log_write,
.read = seq_read, .read = seq_read,
.llseek = seq_lseek, .llseek = tracing_lseek,
.release = tracing_err_log_release, .release = tracing_err_log_release,
}; };
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