[PATCH] tracing/probes: bound symstr stores to reserved length

From: Yifan Zhang

Date: Mon Nov 02 2026 - 07:05:36 EST


Traceprobe calculates dynamic string sizes before storing the values. A
probed pointer can change between those passes, so fetch_store_symstrlen()
can reserve space for a short symbol while fetch_store_symstring() observes
a longer one. The store path reads the reserved length but ignores it and
uses sprint_symbol(), allowing the second symbol to overwrite the trace
record.

KASAN reports:

BUG: KASAN: slab-out-of-bounds in sized_strscpy
Write of size 8
sized_strscpy
module_address_lookup
__sprint_symbol
process_fetch_insn

Format the symbol using the reserved length as the destination bound.

The patched kernel completes the same pointer-switching workload without a
KASAN report.

Fixes: b26a124cbfa8 ("tracing/probes: Add symstr type for dynamic events")
Signed-off-by: Yifan Zhang <yfzhang23@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
kernel/trace/trace_probe_tmpl.h | 2 +-
1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/kernel/trace/trace_probe_tmpl.h b/kernel/trace/trace_probe_tmpl.h
index 8db12f758fdae..cc317cb444e43 100644
--- a/kernel/trace/trace_probe_tmpl.h
+++ b/kernel/trace/trace_probe_tmpl.h
@@ -95,7 +95,7 @@ fetch_store_symstring(unsigned long addr, void *dest, void *base)

__dest = get_loc_data(dest, base);

- return sprint_symbol(__dest, addr);
+ return scnprintf(__dest, maxlen, "%pS", (void *)addr) + 1;
}

/* common part of process_fetch_insn*/
--
2.39.5 (Apple Git-154)