[PATCH v3 perf-tools-next 6/7] perf trace beauty: Validate payload size in augmented sockaddr beautifier
From: Aaron Tomlin
Date: Fri Sep 18 2026 - 20:58:02 EST
When pretty-printing augmented sockaddr arguments via
syscall_arg__scnprintf_augmented_sockaddr(), &arg->augmented.args->value
is cast to struct sockaddr without checking whether the captured payload
is large enough to hold the socket address.
If a malformed or truncated perf.data record provides an augmented
payload smaller than sizeof(sa->sa_family), accessing sa->sa_family or
dereferencing family-specific fields (e.g. struct sockaddr_in,
sockaddr_in6, or sockaddr_un) reads memory past the available buffer.
Validate that arg->augmented.size contains at least
sizeof(struct augmented_arg) + sizeof(sa->sa_family) bytes before
accessing sa->sa_family. Associate each address family formatter in
af_scnprintfs with its minimum required payload size, and ensure that the
captured payload contains sufficient bytes before invoking the
family-specific formatter. If validation fails, fall back to printing
the raw pointer value.
Fixes: d5a7e6613b00 ("perf trace augmented_syscalls: Augment connect's 'sockaddr' arg")
Reported-by: sashiko-bot <sashiko-bot@xxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Aaron Tomlin <atomlin@xxxxxxxxxxx>
---
tools/perf/trace/beauty/sockaddr.c | 35 ++++++++++++++++++++++--------
1 file changed, 26 insertions(+), 9 deletions(-)
diff --git a/tools/perf/trace/beauty/sockaddr.c b/tools/perf/trace/beauty/sockaddr.c
index a17a27ac2a6f..98fdabc99781 100644
--- a/tools/perf/trace/beauty/sockaddr.c
+++ b/tools/perf/trace/beauty/sockaddr.c
@@ -39,31 +39,48 @@ static size_t af_local__scnprintf(struct sockaddr *sa, char *bf, size_t size)
return scnprintf(bf, size, ", path: %s", sun->sun_path);
}
-static size_t (*af_scnprintfs[])(struct sockaddr *sa, char *bf, size_t size) = {
- [AF_LOCAL] = af_local__scnprintf,
- [AF_INET] = af_inet__scnprintf,
- [AF_INET6] = af_inet6__scnprintf,
+static const struct af_scnprintf {
+ size_t (*scnprintf)(struct sockaddr *sa, char *bf, size_t size);
+ size_t min_size;
+} af_scnprintfs[] = {
+ [AF_LOCAL] = { af_local__scnprintf, offsetof(struct sockaddr_un, sun_path) + 1 },
+ [AF_INET] = { af_inet__scnprintf, sizeof(struct sockaddr_in) },
+ [AF_INET6] = { af_inet6__scnprintf, sizeof(struct sockaddr_in6) },
};
static size_t syscall_arg__scnprintf_augmented_sockaddr(struct syscall_arg *arg, char *bf, size_t size)
{
- struct sockaddr *sa = (struct sockaddr *)&arg->augmented.args->value;
+ struct augmented_arg *augmented_arg = arg->augmented.args;
+ size_t payload_size;
+ struct sockaddr *sa;
char family[32];
size_t printed;
+ if (arg->augmented.size < (int)(sizeof(*augmented_arg) + sizeof(sa->sa_family)))
+ return 0;
+
+ sa = (struct sockaddr *)augmented_arg->value;
+ payload_size = arg->augmented.size - sizeof(*augmented_arg);
+
strarray__scnprintf(&strarray__socket_families, family, sizeof(family), "%d", arg->show_string_prefix, sa->sa_family);
printed = scnprintf(bf, size, "{ .family: %s", family);
- if (sa->sa_family < ARRAY_SIZE(af_scnprintfs) && af_scnprintfs[sa->sa_family])
- printed += af_scnprintfs[sa->sa_family](sa, bf + printed, size - printed);
+ if (sa->sa_family < ARRAY_SIZE(af_scnprintfs) && af_scnprintfs[sa->sa_family].scnprintf &&
+ payload_size >= af_scnprintfs[sa->sa_family].min_size)
+ printed += af_scnprintfs[sa->sa_family].scnprintf(sa, bf + printed,
+ size - printed);
return printed + scnprintf(bf + printed, size - printed, " }");
}
size_t syscall_arg__scnprintf_sockaddr(char *bf, size_t size, struct syscall_arg *arg)
{
- if (arg->augmented.args)
- return syscall_arg__scnprintf_augmented_sockaddr(arg, bf, size);
+ if (arg->augmented.args) {
+ size_t printed = syscall_arg__scnprintf_augmented_sockaddr(arg, bf, size);
+
+ if (printed)
+ return printed;
+ }
return scnprintf(bf, size, "%#lx", arg->val);
}
--
2.55.0