On Wed,  1 Jul 2026 18:28:46 +0800
Ren Wei <[email protected]> wrote:

> From: Huihui Huang <[email protected]>
> 
> String event fields are not necessarily NUL-terminated, so the filter
> predicate functions (filter_pred_string(), filter_pred_strloc() and
> filter_pred_strrelloc()) pass the field length to the regex match
> callbacks, and the length-aware matchers honour it.
> 
> regex_match_glob() was the exception: it ignored the length and called
> glob_match(), which scans the string until it hits a NUL byte. Some
> string fields are not NUL-terminated. One example is the dynamic char
> array of the xfs_* namespace tracepoints, which is copied without a
> trailing NUL. For such a field, glob matching reads past the end of
> the event field, causing a KASAN slab-out-of-bounds read in
> glob_match(), reached via regex_match_glob() and filter_match_preds()
> from the xfs_lookup tracepoint.
> 
> Add a length-bounded glob_match_len() and use it from regex_match_glob()
> so glob matching always stops at the field boundary. The matching loop
> is factored into a shared helper so glob_match() keeps its behaviour.
> 

Looks good to me.

Acked-by: Masami Hiramatsu (Google) <[email protected]>

Thank you,

> Fixes: 60f1d5e3bac4 ("ftrace: Support full glob matching")
> Cc: [email protected]
> Reported-by: Yuan Tan <[email protected]>
> Reported-by: Yifan Wu <[email protected]>
> Reported-by: Juefei Pu <[email protected]>
> Reported-by: Zhengchuan Liang <[email protected]>
> Reported-by: Xin Liu <[email protected]>
> Assisted-by: Codex:GPT-5.4
> Signed-off-by: Huihui Huang <[email protected]>
> Signed-off-by: Ren Wei <[email protected]>
> ---
>  include/linux/glob.h               |  1 +
>  kernel/trace/trace_events_filter.c |  6 ++----
>  lib/glob.c                         | 31 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++--
>  3 files changed, 32 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/include/linux/glob.h b/include/linux/glob.h
> index 861327b33e..91595e7509 100644
> --- a/include/linux/glob.h
> +++ b/include/linux/glob.h
> @@ -6,5 +6,6 @@
>  #include <linux/compiler.h>  /* For __pure */
>  
>  bool __pure glob_match(char const *pat, char const *str);
> +bool __pure glob_match_len(char const *pat, char const *str, size_t len);
>  
>  #endif       /* _LINUX_GLOB_H */
> diff --git a/kernel/trace/trace_events_filter.c 
> b/kernel/trace/trace_events_filter.c
> index 609325f579..6385cd662d 100644
> --- a/kernel/trace/trace_events_filter.c
> +++ b/kernel/trace/trace_events_filter.c
> @@ -1056,11 +1056,9 @@ static int regex_match_end(char *str, struct regex *r, 
> int len)
>       return 0;
>  }
>  
> -static int regex_match_glob(char *str, struct regex *r, int len 
> __maybe_unused)
> +static int regex_match_glob(char *str, struct regex *r, int len)
>  {
> -     if (glob_match(r->pattern, str))
> -             return 1;
> -     return 0;
> +     return glob_match_len(r->pattern, str, len) ? 1 : 0;
>  }
>  
>  /**
> diff --git a/lib/glob.c b/lib/glob.c
> index 7aca76c25b..c80d9dd736 100644
> --- a/lib/glob.c
> +++ b/lib/glob.c
> @@ -11,6 +11,9 @@
>  MODULE_DESCRIPTION("glob(7) matching");
>  MODULE_LICENSE("Dual MIT/GPL");
>  
> +static bool __pure glob_match_str(char const *pat, char const *str,
> +                               char const *str_end);
> +
>  /**
>   * glob_match - Shell-style pattern matching, like !fnmatch(pat, str, 0)
>   * @pat: Shell-style pattern to match, e.g. "*.[ch]".
> @@ -40,6 +43,29 @@ MODULE_LICENSE("Dual MIT/GPL");
>   * An opening bracket without a matching close is matched literally.
>   */
>  bool __pure glob_match(char const *pat, char const *str)
> +{
> +     return glob_match_str(pat, str, NULL);
> +}
> +EXPORT_SYMBOL(glob_match);
> +
> +/**
> + * glob_match_len - glob match against a length-bounded string
> + * @pat: Shell-style pattern to match.
> + * @str: String to match.  Need not be NUL-terminated.
> + * @len: Number of bytes of @str that may be read.
> + *
> + * Like glob_match(), but @str is only read up to @len bytes, so it can be
> + * used on buffers that are not NUL-terminated (e.g. trace event fields).
> + * A NUL byte within @len still terminates the string.
> + */
> +bool __pure glob_match_len(char const *pat, char const *str, size_t len)
> +{
> +     return glob_match_str(pat, str, str + len);
> +}
> +EXPORT_SYMBOL(glob_match_len);
> +
> +static bool __pure glob_match_str(char const *pat, char const *str,
> +                               char const *str_end)
>  {
>       /*
>        * Backtrack to previous * on mismatch and retry starting one
> @@ -55,9 +81,11 @@ bool __pure glob_match(char const *pat, char const *str)
>        * on mismatch, or true after matching the trailing nul bytes.
>        */
>       for (;;) {
> -             unsigned char c = *str++;
> +             unsigned char c = (str_end && str >= str_end) ? '\0' : *str;
>               unsigned char d = *pat++;
>  
> +             str++;
> +
>               switch (d) {
>               case '?':       /* Wildcard: anything but nul */
>                       if (c == '\0')
> @@ -125,4 +153,3 @@ bool __pure glob_match(char const *pat, char const *str)
>               }
>       }
>  }
> -EXPORT_SYMBOL(glob_match);
> -- 
> 2.50.1
> 


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Masami Hiramatsu (Google) <[email protected]>

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