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tracing: Stop FORTIFY_SOURCE complaining about stack trace caller

The stack_trace event is an event created by the tracing subsystem to
store stack traces. It originally just contained a hard coded array of 8
words to hold the stack, and a "size" to know how many entries are there.
This is exported to user space as:

name: kernel_stack
ID: 4
format:
	field:unsigned short common_type;	offset:0;	size:2;	signed:0;
	field:unsigned char common_flags;	offset:2;	size:1;	signed:0;
	field:unsigned char common_preempt_count;	offset:3;	size:1;	signed:0;
	field:int common_pid;	offset:4;	size:4;	signed:1;

	field:int size;	offset:8;	size:4;	signed:1;
	field:unsigned long caller[8];	offset:16;	size:64;	signed:0;

print fmt: "\t=> %ps\n\t=> %ps\n\t=> %ps\n" "\t=> %ps\n\t=> %ps\n\t=> %ps\n" "\t=> %ps\n\t=> %ps\n",i
 (void *)REC->caller[0], (void *)REC->caller[1], (void *)REC->caller[2],
 (void *)REC->caller[3], (void *)REC->caller[4], (void *)REC->caller[5],
 (void *)REC->caller[6], (void *)REC->caller[7]

Where the user space tracers could parse the stack. The library was
updated for this specific event to only look at the size, and not the
array. But some older users still look at the array (note, the older code
still checks to make sure the array fits inside the event that it read.
That is, if only 4 words were saved, the parser would not read the fifth
word because it will see that it was outside of the event size).

This event was changed a while ago to be more dynamic, and would save a
full stack even if it was greater than 8 words. It does this by simply
allocating more ring buffer to hold the extra words. Then it copies in the
stack via:

	memcpy(&entry->caller, fstack->calls, size);

As the entry is struct stack_entry, that is created by a macro to both
create the structure and export this to user space, it still had the caller
field of entry defined as: unsigned long caller[8].

When the stack is greater than 8, the FORTIFY_SOURCE code notices that the
amount being copied is greater than the source array and complains about
it. It has no idea that the source is pointing to the ring buffer with the
required allocation.

To hide this from the FORTIFY_SOURCE logic, pointer arithmetic is used:

	ptr = ring_buffer_event_data(event);
	entry = ptr;
	ptr += offsetof(typeof(*entry), caller);
	memcpy(ptr, fstack->calls, size);

Link: https://lore.kernel.org/all/20230612160748.4082850-1-svens@linux.ibm.com/
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/linux-trace-kernel/20230712105235.5fc441aa@gandalf.local.home



Cc: Masami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@kernel.org>
Cc: Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@arm.com>
Reported-by: default avatarSven Schnelle <svens@linux.ibm.com>
Tested-by: default avatarSven Schnelle <svens@linux.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarSteven Rostedt (Google) <rostedt@goodmis.org>
parent 26efd79c
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