[PATCH v3 2/3] kgdb: Add NOKPROBE labels on the trap handler functions

From: Daniel Thompson
Date: Mon Sep 14 2020 - 09:08:44 EST


Currently kgdb honours the kprobe blocklist but doesn't place its own
trap handling code on the list. Add labels to discourage attempting to
use kgdb to debug itself.

Not every functions that executes from the trap handler needs to be
marked up: relatively early in the trap handler execution (just after
we bring the other CPUs to a halt) all breakpoints are replaced with
the original opcodes. This patch marks up code in the debug_core that
executes between trap entry and the breakpoints being deactivated
and, also, code that executes between breakpoint activation and trap
exit.

To be clear these changes are not sufficient to make recursive trapping
impossible since cover all the library calls made during kgdb's
entry/exit logic. However going much further whilst we are sharing the
kprobe blocklist risks reducing the capabilities of kprobe and this
would be a bad trade off (especially so given kgdb's users are currently
conditioned to avoid recursive traps).

Signed-off-by: Daniel Thompson <daniel.thompson@xxxxxxxxxx>
---
kernel/debug/debug_core.c | 11 +++++++++++
1 file changed, 11 insertions(+)

diff --git a/kernel/debug/debug_core.c b/kernel/debug/debug_core.c
index b1277728a835..9618c1e2faf6 100644
--- a/kernel/debug/debug_core.c
+++ b/kernel/debug/debug_core.c
@@ -177,12 +177,14 @@ int __weak kgdb_arch_set_breakpoint(struct kgdb_bkpt *bpt)
arch_kgdb_ops.gdb_bpt_instr, BREAK_INSTR_SIZE);
return err;
}
+NOKPROBE_SYMBOL(kgdb_arch_set_breakpoint);

int __weak kgdb_arch_remove_breakpoint(struct kgdb_bkpt *bpt)
{
return copy_to_kernel_nofault((char *)bpt->bpt_addr,
(char *)bpt->saved_instr, BREAK_INSTR_SIZE);
}
+NOKPROBE_SYMBOL(kgdb_arch_remove_breakpoint);

int __weak kgdb_validate_break_address(unsigned long addr)
{
@@ -302,6 +304,7 @@ static void kgdb_flush_swbreak_addr(unsigned long addr)
/* Force flush instruction cache if it was outside the mm */
flush_icache_range(addr, addr + BREAK_INSTR_SIZE);
}
+NOKPROBE_SYMBOL(kgdb_flush_swbreak_addr);

/*
* SW breakpoint management:
@@ -329,6 +332,7 @@ int dbg_activate_sw_breakpoints(void)
}
return ret;
}
+NOKPROBE_SYMBOL(dbg_activate_sw_breakpoints);

int dbg_set_sw_break(unsigned long addr)
{
@@ -392,6 +396,7 @@ int dbg_deactivate_sw_breakpoints(void)
}
return ret;
}
+NOKPROBE_SYMBOL(dbg_deactivate_sw_breakpoints);

int dbg_remove_sw_break(unsigned long addr)
{
@@ -560,6 +565,7 @@ static int kgdb_reenter_check(struct kgdb_state *ks)

return 1;
}
+NOKPROBE_SYMBOL(kgdb_reenter_check);

static void dbg_touch_watchdogs(void)
{
@@ -567,6 +573,7 @@ static void dbg_touch_watchdogs(void)
clocksource_touch_watchdog();
rcu_cpu_stall_reset();
}
+NOKPROBE_SYMBOL(dbg_touch_watchdogs);

static int kgdb_cpu_enter(struct kgdb_state *ks, struct pt_regs *regs,
int exception_state)
@@ -798,6 +805,7 @@ static int kgdb_cpu_enter(struct kgdb_state *ks, struct pt_regs *regs,

return kgdb_info[cpu].ret_state;
}
+NOKPROBE_SYMBOL(kgdb_cpu_enter);

/*
* kgdb_handle_exception() - main entry point from a kernel exception
@@ -842,6 +850,7 @@ kgdb_handle_exception(int evector, int signo, int ecode, struct pt_regs *regs)
arch_kgdb_ops.enable_nmi(1);
return ret;
}
+NOKPROBE_SYMBOL(kgdb_handle_exception);

/*
* GDB places a breakpoint at this function to know dynamically loaded objects.
@@ -876,6 +885,7 @@ int kgdb_nmicallback(int cpu, void *regs)
#endif
return 1;
}
+NOKPROBE_SYMBOL(kgdb_nmicallback);

int kgdb_nmicallin(int cpu, int trapnr, void *regs, int err_code,
atomic_t *send_ready)
@@ -901,6 +911,7 @@ int kgdb_nmicallin(int cpu, int trapnr, void *regs, int err_code,
#endif
return 1;
}
+NOKPROBE_SYMBOL(kgdb_nmicallin);

static void kgdb_console_write(struct console *co, const char *s,
unsigned count)
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