From: Aaron Tomlin <atomlin@atomlin.com>
To: peterz@infradead.org, mingo@redhat.com, acme@kernel.org,
namhyung@kernel.org
Cc: mark.rutland@arm.com, alexander.shishkin@linux.intel.com,
jolsa@kernel.org, irogers@google.com, adrian.hunter@intel.com,
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Subject: [PATCH perf-tools-next] perf trace: Add upper bound checks for augmented BTF struct printing
Date: Sat, 5 Sep 2026 21:11:32 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20260906011132.279321-1-atomlin@atomlin.com> (raw)
When pretty-printing augmented struct payloads using BTF via
btf_struct_scnprintf(), augmented_arg->size is currently only validated
against values <= 0.
However, several edge cases can result in size mismatches or buffer
over-reads:
1. If arg->augmented.size is smaller than sizeof(*augmented_arg),
dereferencing augmented_arg->size reads past the available
buffer.
2. If augmented_arg->size exceeds arg->augmented.size -
sizeof(*augmented_arg), calculating consumed =
sizeof(*augmented_arg) + augmented_arg->size can overflow signed
integer limits (e.g., with crafted INT_MAX values in an
untrusted perf.data file) or cause arg->augmented.size to
underflow. This advances arg->augmented.args out of bounds,
corrupting the parsing state for subsequent arguments in
multi-argument syscalls.
3. If the captured payload is truncated (e.g., short reads in BPF,
or during cross-architecture analysis such as replaying a 32-bit
perf.data on a 64-bit host where host BTF type->size exceeds the
32-bit target payload), passing type->size to
btf_dump__dump_type_data() causes libbpf to read past the end of
the payload buffer.
Enforce an upper bound on augmented_arg->size against the remaining
buffer (arg->augmented.size - sizeof(*augmented_arg)) and verify that the
captured payload contains at least type->size bytes before passing it to
btf_dump__dump_type_data().
Fixes: cb32035214b9 ("perf trace: Pretty print struct data")
Reported-by: sashiko-bot <sashiko-bot@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Aaron Tomlin <atomlin@atomlin.com>
---
tools/perf/builtin-trace.c | 5 +++--
1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
diff --git a/tools/perf/builtin-trace.c b/tools/perf/builtin-trace.c
index be19d70eba09..20fffc24507b 100644
--- a/tools/perf/builtin-trace.c
+++ b/tools/perf/builtin-trace.c
@@ -1133,12 +1133,13 @@ static size_t btf_struct_scnprintf(const struct btf_type *type, struct btf *btf,
LIBBPF_OPTS(btf_dump_opts, dump_opts);
LIBBPF_OPTS(btf_dump_type_data_opts, dump_data_opts);
- if (arg == NULL || arg->augmented.args == NULL || arg->augmented.size <= 0 ||
+ if (arg == NULL || arg->augmented.args == NULL || arg->augmented.size < (int)sizeof(*augmented_arg) ||
arg->fmt == NULL || !arg->fmt->from_user)
return 0;
augmented_arg = arg->augmented.args;
- if (augmented_arg->size <= 0)
+ if (augmented_arg->size <= 0 || augmented_arg->size > arg->augmented.size - (int)sizeof(*augmented_arg) ||
+ (size_t)augmented_arg->size < type->size)
return 0;
dump_data_opts.compact = true;
base-commit: 02f6847e1822714a4201b87e42f92b0d43e8549d
--
2.55.0
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