tracing: Fix regex_match_front() to not over compare the test string

The regex match function regex_match_front() in the tracing filter logic,
was fixed to test just the pattern length from testing the entire test
string. That is, it went from strncmp(str, r->pattern, len) to
strcmp(str, r->pattern, r->len).

The issue is that str is not guaranteed to be nul terminated, and if r->len
is greater than the length of str, it can access more memory than is
allocated.

The solution is to add a simple test if (len < r->len) return 0.

Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Fixes: 285caad415f45 ("tracing/filters: Fix MATCH_FRONT_ONLY filter matching")
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (VMware) <rostedt@goodmis.org>

diff --git a/kernel/trace/trace_events_filter.c b/kernel/trace/trace_events_filter.c
index 1f951b3..7d306b7 100644 (file)
--- a/kernel/trace/trace_events_filter.c
+++ b/kernel/trace/trace_events_filter.c
@@ -762,6 +762,9 @@ static int regex_match_full(char *str, struct regex *r, int len)
 
 static int regex_match_front(char *str, struct regex *r, int len)
 {
+       if (len < r->len)
+               return 0;
+
        if (strncmp(str, r->pattern, r->len) == 0)
                return 1;
        return 0;