kprobes: Do not use local variable when creating debugfs file
authorPunit Agrawal <punitagrawal@gmail.com>
Tue, 14 Sep 2021 14:38:37 +0000 (23:38 +0900)
committerGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Thu, 18 Nov 2021 13:04:05 +0000 (14:04 +0100)
commit848f1f00c637da8cb5d5b4fb702fade5c03696df
treee23839be98b975864e3139663cdddce9bf8651c0
parentc34bfe4204cdd234195f6695fccf3b2bfb87ecbd
kprobes: Do not use local variable when creating debugfs file

[ Upstream commit 8f7262cd66699a4b02eb7549b35c81b2116aad95 ]

debugfs_create_file() takes a pointer argument that can be used during
file operation callbacks (accessible via i_private in the inode
structure). An obvious requirement is for the pointer to refer to
valid memory when used.

When creating the debugfs file to dynamically enable / disable
kprobes, a pointer to local variable is passed to
debugfs_create_file(); which will go out of scope when the init
function returns. The reason this hasn't triggered random memory
corruption is because the pointer is not accessed during the debugfs
file callbacks.

Since the enabled state is managed by the kprobes_all_disabled global
variable, the local variable is not needed. Fix the incorrect (and
unnecessary) usage of local variable during debugfs_file_create() by
passing NULL instead.

Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/163163031686.489837.4476867635937014973.stgit@devnote2
Fixes: bf8f6e5b3e51 ("Kprobes: The ON/OFF knob thru debugfs")
Signed-off-by: Punit Agrawal <punitagrawal@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Masami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Masami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (VMware) <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sashal@kernel.org>
kernel/kprobes.c