tracing: Have the user copy of synthetic event address use correct context

A synthetic event is created by the synthetic event interface that can
read both user or kernel address memory. In reality, it reads any
arbitrary memory location from within the kernel. If the address space is
in USER (where CONFIG_ARCH_HAS_NON_OVERLAPPING_ADDRESS_SPACE is set) then
it uses strncpy_from_user_nofault() to copy strings otherwise it uses
strncpy_from_kernel_nofault().

But since both functions use the same variable there's no annotation to
what that variable is (ie. __user). This makes sparse complain.

Quiet sparse by typecasting the strncpy_from_user_nofault() variable to
a __user pointer.

Link: https://lore.kernel.org/linux-trace-kernel/20231031151033.73c42e23@gandalf.local.home
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Cc: Masami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@kernel.org>
Cc: Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@arm.com>
Fixes: 0934ae9977c2 ("tracing: Fix reading strings from synthetic events");
Reported-by: kernel test robot <lkp@intel.com>
Closes: https://lore.kernel.org/oe-kbuild-all/202311010013.fm8WTxa5-lkp@intel.com/
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (Google) <rostedt@goodmis.org>

diff --git a/kernel/trace/trace_events_synth.c b/kernel/trace/trace_events_synth.c
index 14cb275a0bab01ba4e816af6e4df810aa830bee5..846e02c0fb59a27c62577bbfe86572f9a5f572ce 100644 (file)
--- a/kernel/trace/trace_events_synth.c
+++ b/kernel/trace/trace_events_synth.c
@@ -452,7 +452,7 @@ static unsigned int trace_string(struct synth_trace_event *entry,
 
 #ifdef CONFIG_ARCH_HAS_NON_OVERLAPPING_ADDRESS_SPACE
                if ((unsigned long)str_val < TASK_SIZE)
-                       ret = strncpy_from_user_nofault(str_field, str_val, STR_VAR_LEN_MAX);
+                       ret = strncpy_from_user_nofault(str_field, (const void __user *)str_val, STR_VAR_LEN_MAX);
                else
 #endif
                        ret = strncpy_from_kernel_nofault(str_field, str_val, STR_VAR_LEN_MAX);