forked from Minki/linux
mainlining shenanigans
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It is a common mistake for someone writing a trace event to save a pointer to a string in the TP_fast_assign() and then display that string pointer in the TP_printk() with %s. The problem is that those two events may happen a long time apart, where the source of the string may no longer exist. The proper way to handle displaying any string that is not guaranteed to be in the kernel core rodata section, is to copy it into the ring buffer via the __string(), __assign_str() and __get_str() helper macros. Add a check at run time while displaying the TP_printk() of events to make sure that every %s referenced is safe to dereference, and if it is not, trigger a warning and only show the address of the pointer, and the dereferenced string if it can be safely retrieved with a strncpy_from_kernel_nofault() call. In order to not have to copy the parsing of vsnprintf() formats, or even exporting its code, the verifier relies on vsnprintf() being able to modify the va_list that is passed to it, and it remains modified after it is called. This is the case for some architectures like x86_64, but other architectures like x86_32 pass the va_list to vsnprintf() as a value not a reference, and the verifier can not use it to parse the non string arguments. Thus, at boot up, it is checked if vsnprintf() modifies the passed in va_list or not, and a static branch will disable the verifier if it's not compatible. Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (VMware) <rostedt@goodmis.org> |
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Linux kernel
============
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.