[PATCH] tracing/kprobes: fix NULL pointer dereference in trace_kprobe_create()

[Andrea Righi]

It is possible to trigger a NULL pointer dereference by writing an
incorrectly formatted string to krpobe_events (omitting the symbol).

Example:

 echo "r:event_1 " >> /sys/kernel/debug/tracing/kprobe_events

That triggers this:

 BUG: unable to handle kernel NULL pointer dereference at 0000000000000000
 #PF error: [normal kernel read fault]
 PGD 0 P4D 0
 Oops: 0000 [#1] SMP PTI
 CPU: 6 PID: 1757 Comm: bash Not tainted 5.0.0-rc1+ #125
 Hardware name: Dell Inc. XPS 13 9370/0F6P3V, BIOS 1.5.1 08/09/2018
 RIP: 0010:kstrtoull+0x2/0x20
 Code: 28 00 00 00 75 17 48 83 c4 18 5b 41 5c 5d c3 b8 ea ff ff ff eb e1 b8 de ff ff ff eb da e8 d6 36 bb ff 66 0f 1f 44 00 00 31 c0 <80> 3f 2b 55 48 89 e5 0f 94 c0 48 01 c7 e8 5c ff ff ff 5d c3 66 2e
 RSP: 0018:ffffb5d482e57cb8 EFLAGS: 00010246
 RAX: 0000000000000000 RBX: 0000000000000001 RCX: ffffffff82b12720
 RDX: ffffb5d482e57cf8 RSI: 0000000000000000 RDI: 0000000000000000
 RBP: ffffb5d482e57d70 R08: ffffa0c05e5a7080 R09: ffffa0c05e003980
 R10: 0000000000000000 R11: 0000000040000000 R12: ffffa0c04fe87b08
 R13: 0000000000000001 R14: 000000000000000b R15: ffffa0c058d749e1
 FS:  00007f137c7f7740(0000) GS:ffffa0c05e580000(0000) knlGS:0000000000000000
 CS:  0010 DS: 0000 ES: 0000 CR0: 0000000080050033
 CR2: 0000000000000000 CR3: 0000000497d46004 CR4: 00000000003606e0
 Call Trace:
  ? trace_kprobe_create+0xb6/0x840
  ? _cond_resched+0x19/0x40
  ? _cond_resched+0x19/0x40
  ? __kmalloc+0x62/0x210
  ? argv_split+0x8f/0x140
  ? trace_kprobe_create+0x840/0x840
  ? trace_kprobe_create+0x840/0x840
  create_or_delete_trace_kprobe+0x11/0x30
  trace_run_command+0x50/0x90
  trace_parse_run_command+0xc1/0x160
  probes_write+0x10/0x20
  __vfs_write+0x3a/0x1b0
  ? apparmor_file_permission+0x1a/0x20
  ? security_file_permission+0x31/0xf0
  ? _cond_resched+0x19/0x40
  vfs_write+0xb1/0x1a0
  ksys_write+0x55/0xc0
  __x64_sys_write+0x1a/0x20
  do_syscall_64+0x5a/0x120
  entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x44/0xa9

Fix by doing the proper argument check when a NULL symbol is passed in
trace_kprobe_create().

Signed-off-by: Andrea Righi <righi.andrea@xxxxxxxxx>
---
 kernel/trace/trace_kprobe.c | 2 ++
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+)

diff --git a/kernel/trace/trace_kprobe.c b/kernel/trace/trace_kprobe.c
index 5c19b8c41c7e..76410ceeff50 100644
--- a/kernel/trace/trace_kprobe.c
+++ b/kernel/trace/trace_kprobe.c
@@ -644,6 +644,8 @@ static int trace_kprobe_create(int argc, const char *argv[])
 
 	/* try to parse an address. if that fails, try to read the
 	 * input as a symbol. */
+	if (!argv[1])
+		return -EINVAL;
 	if (kstrtoul(argv[1], 0, (unsigned long *)&addr)) {
 		/* Check whether uprobe event specified */
 		if (strchr(argv[1], '/') && strchr(argv[1], ':'))
-- 
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