Re: [PATCH v2 2/3] x86/traps: Print non-canonical address on #GP

[Jann Horn]

On Sun, Nov 24, 2019 at 12:08 AM Andy Lutomirski <luto@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On Fri, Nov 15, 2019 at 11:17 AM Jann Horn <jannh@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > A frequent cause of #GP exceptions are memory accesses to non-canonical
> > addresses. Unlike #PF, #GP doesn't come with a fault address in CR2, so
> > the kernel doesn't currently print the fault address for #GP.
> > Luckily, we already have the necessary infrastructure for decoding X86
> > instructions and computing the memory address that is being accessed;
> > hook it up to the #GP handler so that we can figure out whether the #GP
> > looks like it was caused by a non-canonical address, and if so, print
> > that address.
[...]
> > +static void print_kernel_gp_address(struct pt_regs *regs)
> > +{
> > +#ifdef CONFIG_X86_64
> > +       u8 insn_bytes[MAX_INSN_SIZE];
> > +       struct insn insn;
> > +       unsigned long addr_ref;
> > +
> > +       if (probe_kernel_read(insn_bytes, (void *)regs->ip, MAX_INSN_SIZE))
> > +               return;
> > +
> > +       kernel_insn_init(&insn, insn_bytes, MAX_INSN_SIZE);
> > +       insn_get_modrm(&insn);
> > +       insn_get_sib(&insn);
> > +       addr_ref = (unsigned long)insn_get_addr_ref(&insn, regs);
[...]
> > +}
>
> Could you refactor this a little bit so that we end up with a helper
> that does the computation?  Something like:
>
> int probe_insn_get_memory_ref(void **addr, size_t *len, void *insn_addr);
>
> returns 1 if there was a memory operand and fills in addr and len,
> returns 0 if there was no memory operand, and returns a negative error
> on error.
>
> I think we're going to want this for #AC handling, too :)

Mmmh... the instruction decoder doesn't currently give us a reliable
access size though. (I know, I'm using it here regardless, but it
doesn't really matter here if the decoded size is too big from time to
time... whereas I imagine that that'd matter quite a bit for #AC
handling.) IIRC e.g. a MOVZX that loads 1 byte into a 4-byte register
is decoded as having .opnd_bytes==4; and if you look through
arch/x86/lib/insn.c, there isn't even anything that would ever set
->opnd_bytes to 1. You'd have to add some plumbing to get reliable
access sizes. I don't want to add a helper for this before the
underlying infrastructure actually works properly.