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authorFrederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>2011-05-21 20:08:15 +0200
committerFrederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>2011-05-22 03:38:48 +0200
commit98e1da905cbe64bb023a165c7c01eef5e800609e (patch)
treec77e7a64263ecb8fc9f7971a44dd085f14f039f6 /tools/perf/util
parenta285412479b6d5af3e48273a92ec2f1987df8cd1 (diff)
perf tools: Robustify dynamic sample content fetch
Ensure the size of the dynamic fields such as callchains or raw events don't overlap the whole event boundaries. This prevents from dereferencing junk if the given size of the callchain goes too eager. Reported-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Reported-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com> Cc: Stephane Eranian <eranian@google.com>
Diffstat (limited to 'tools/perf/util')
-rw-r--r--tools/perf/util/evsel.c26
1 files changed, 26 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/tools/perf/util/evsel.c b/tools/perf/util/evsel.c
index bfce8bf642f..ee0fe0dffa7 100644
--- a/tools/perf/util/evsel.c
+++ b/tools/perf/util/evsel.c
@@ -303,6 +303,17 @@ static int perf_event__parse_id_sample(const union perf_event *event, u64 type,
return 0;
}
+static bool sample_overlap(const union perf_event *event,
+ const void *offset, u64 size)
+{
+ const void *base = event;
+
+ if (offset + size > base + event->header.size)
+ return true;
+
+ return false;
+}
+
int perf_event__parse_sample(const union perf_event *event, u64 type,
int sample_size, bool sample_id_all,
struct perf_sample *data)
@@ -373,14 +384,29 @@ int perf_event__parse_sample(const union perf_event *event, u64 type,
}
if (type & PERF_SAMPLE_CALLCHAIN) {
+ if (sample_overlap(event, array, sizeof(data->callchain->nr)))
+ return -EFAULT;
+
data->callchain = (struct ip_callchain *)array;
+
+ if (sample_overlap(event, array, data->callchain->nr))
+ return -EFAULT;
+
array += 1 + data->callchain->nr;
}
if (type & PERF_SAMPLE_RAW) {
u32 *p = (u32 *)array;
+
+ if (sample_overlap(event, array, sizeof(u32)))
+ return -EFAULT;
+
data->raw_size = *p;
p++;
+
+ if (sample_overlap(event, p, data->raw_size))
+ return -EFAULT;
+
data->raw_data = p;
}