tracing: kprobe-event: Fix null-ptr-deref in trace_kprobe_create_internal()
A crash was observed with the following output:
Oops: general protection fault, probably for non-canonical address 0xdffffc0000000000: 0000 [#1] SMP KASAN PTI
KASAN: null-ptr-deref in range [0x0000000000000000-0x0000000000000007]
CPU: 1 UID: 0 PID: 2899 Comm: syz.2.399 Not tainted 6.17.0-rc5+ #5 PREEMPT(none)
RIP: 0010:trace_kprobe_create_internal+0x3fc/0x1440 kernel/trace/trace_kprobe.c:911
Call Trace:
<TASK>
trace_kprobe_create_cb+0xa2/0xf0 kernel/trace/trace_kprobe.c:1089
trace_probe_create+0xf1/0x110 kernel/trace/trace_probe.c:2246
dyn_event_create+0x45/0x70 kernel/trace/trace_dynevent.c:128
create_or_delete_trace_kprobe+0x5e/0xc0 kernel/trace/trace_kprobe.c:1107
trace_parse_run_command+0x1a5/0x330 kernel/trace/trace.c:10785
vfs_write+0x2b6/0xd00 fs/read_write.c:684
ksys_write+0x129/0x240 fs/read_write.c:738
do_syscall_x64 arch/x86/entry/syscall_64.c:63 [inline]
do_syscall_64+0x5d/0x2d0 arch/x86/entry/syscall_64.c:94
</TASK>
Function kmemdup() may return NULL in trace_kprobe_create_internal(), add
check for it's return value.
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/all/20250916075816.3181175-1-wangliang74@huawei.com/
Fixes: 33b4e38baa03 ("tracing: kprobe-event: Allocate string buffers from heap")
Signed-off-by: Wang Liang <wangliang74@huawei.com>
Signed-off-by: Masami Hiramatsu (Google) <mhiramat@kernel.org>
diff --git a/kernel/trace/trace_kprobe.c b/kernel/trace/trace_kprobe.c
index ccae62d..fa60362 100644
--- a/kernel/trace/trace_kprobe.c
+++ b/kernel/trace/trace_kprobe.c
@@ -908,6 +908,8 @@ static int trace_kprobe_create_internal(int argc, const char *argv[],
return -EINVAL;
}
buf = kmemdup(&argv[0][1], len + 1, GFP_KERNEL);
+ if (!buf)
+ return -ENOMEM;
buf[len] = '\0';
ret = kstrtouint(buf, 0, &maxactive);
if (ret || !maxactive) {
