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| -rw-r--r-- | kernel/trace/trace.c | 21 |
1 files changed, 19 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/kernel/trace/trace.c b/kernel/trace/trace.c index 4529e264cb86..20122eeccf97 100644 --- a/kernel/trace/trace.c +++ b/kernel/trace/trace.c @@ -3118,6 +3118,7 @@ static void __ftrace_trace_stack(struct trace_buffer *buffer, struct ftrace_stack *fstack; struct stack_entry *entry; int stackidx; + void *ptr; /* * Add one, for this function and the call to save_stack_trace() @@ -3161,9 +3162,25 @@ static void __ftrace_trace_stack(struct trace_buffer *buffer, trace_ctx); if (!event) goto out; - entry = ring_buffer_event_data(event); + ptr = ring_buffer_event_data(event); + entry = ptr; + + /* + * For backward compatibility reasons, the entry->caller is an + * array of 8 slots to store the stack. This is also exported + * to user space. The amount allocated on the ring buffer actually + * holds enough for the stack specified by nr_entries. This will + * go into the location of entry->caller. Due to string fortifiers + * checking the size of the destination of memcpy() it triggers + * when it detects that size is greater than 8. To hide this from + * the fortifiers, we use "ptr" and pointer arithmetic to assign caller. + * + * The below is really just: + * memcpy(&entry->caller, fstack->calls, size); + */ + ptr += offsetof(typeof(*entry), caller); + memcpy(ptr, fstack->calls, size); - memcpy(&entry->caller, fstack->calls, size); entry->size = nr_entries; if (!call_filter_check_discard(call, entry, buffer, event)) |