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    tracing/uprobes: Fix output for multiple string arguments · 092fc755
    Andreas Ziegler authored
    commit 0722069a upstream.
    
    When printing multiple uprobe arguments as strings the output for the
    earlier arguments would also include all later string arguments.
    
    This is best explained in an example:
    
    Consider adding a uprobe to a function receiving two strings as
    parameters which is at offset 0xa0 in strlib.so and we want to print
    both parameters when the uprobe is hit (on x86_64):
    
    $ echo 'p:func /lib/strlib.so:0xa0 +0(%di):string +0(%si):string' > \
        /sys/kernel/debug/tracing/uprobe_events
    
    When the function is called as func("foo", "bar") and we hit the probe,
    the trace file shows a line like the following:
    
      [...] func: (0x7f7e683706a0) arg1="foobar" arg2="bar"
    
    Note the extra "bar" printed as part of arg1. This behaviour stacks up
    for additional string arguments.
    
    The strings are stored in a dynamically growing part of the uprobe
    buffer by fetch_store_string() after copying them from userspace via
    strncpy_from_user(). The return value of strncpy_from_user() is then
    directly used as the required size for the string. However, this does
    not take the terminating null byte into account as the documentation
    for strncpy_from_user() cleary states that it "[...] returns the
    length of the string (not including the trailing NUL)" even though the
    null byte will be copied to the destination.
    
    Therefore, subsequent calls to fetch_store_string() will overwrite
    the terminating null byte of the most recently fetched string with
    the first character of the current string, leading to the
    "accumulation" of strings in earlier arguments in the output.
    
    Fix this by incrementing the return value of strncpy_from_user() by
    one if we did not hit the maximum buffer size.
    
    Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20190116141629.5752-1-andreas.ziegler@fau.de
    
    Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com>
    Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
    Fixes: 5baaa59e
    
     ("tracing/probes: Implement 'memory' fetch method for uprobes")
    Acked-by: default avatarMasami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@kernel.org>
    Signed-off-by: default avatarAndreas Ziegler <andreas.ziegler@fau.de>
    Signed-off-by: default avatarSteven Rostedt (VMware) <rostedt@goodmis.org>
    Signed-off-by: default avatarMasami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@kernel.org>
    Signed-off-by: default avatarGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
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