[PATCH 4.9 41/42] ftrace: Do not blindly read the ip address in ftrace_bug()

From: Greg Kroah-Hartman
Date: Mon Jun 14 2021 - 06:34:24 EST


From: Steven Rostedt (VMware) <rostedt@xxxxxxxxxxx>

commit 6c14133d2d3f768e0a35128faac8aa6ed4815051 upstream.

It was reported that a bug on arm64 caused a bad ip address to be used for
updating into a nop in ftrace_init(), but the error path (rightfully)
returned -EINVAL and not -EFAULT, as the bug caused more than one error to
occur. But because -EINVAL was returned, the ftrace_bug() tried to report
what was at the location of the ip address, and read it directly. This
caused the machine to panic, as the ip was not pointing to a valid memory
address.

Instead, read the ip address with copy_from_kernel_nofault() to safely
access the memory, and if it faults, report that the address faulted,
otherwise report what was in that location.

Link: https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/20210607032329.28671-1-mark-pk.tsai@xxxxxxxxxxxx/

Cc: stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Fixes: 05736a427f7e1 ("ftrace: warn on failure to disable mcount callers")
Reported-by: Mark-PK Tsai <mark-pk.tsai@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Tested-by: Mark-PK Tsai <mark-pk.tsai@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (VMware) <rostedt@xxxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
kernel/trace/ftrace.c | 8 +++++++-
1 file changed, 7 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

--- a/kernel/trace/ftrace.c
+++ b/kernel/trace/ftrace.c
@@ -1961,12 +1961,18 @@ static int ftrace_hash_ipmodify_update(s

static void print_ip_ins(const char *fmt, const unsigned char *p)
{
+ char ins[MCOUNT_INSN_SIZE];
int i;

+ if (probe_kernel_read(ins, p, MCOUNT_INSN_SIZE)) {
+ printk(KERN_CONT "%s[FAULT] %px\n", fmt, p);
+ return;
+ }
+
printk(KERN_CONT "%s", fmt);

for (i = 0; i < MCOUNT_INSN_SIZE; i++)
- printk(KERN_CONT "%s%02x", i ? ":" : "", p[i]);
+ printk(KERN_CONT "%s%02x", i ? ":" : "", ins[i]);
}

enum ftrace_bug_type ftrace_bug_type;