Re: [PATCH RESEND] kprobes: be more permissive when user specifies both symbol name and address

From: Masami Hiramatsu
Date: Mon Jul 28 2014 - 05:22:00 EST


(2014/06/20 16:34), Jianyu Zhan wrote:
> Hi, I found that this patch wasn't merged into mainline during this merge
> window(maybe it wasn't cooked in any tree), while it has been acked-by for
> a couple of days.
>
> Ingo, would you mind queueing this one? Thanks.

Ping? I've already acked this.

>
> -----<8-----
>
> Currently, if user specifies both symbol name and address, we just
> bail out.
>
> This might be too rude. This patch makes it give more tolerance.
> If both are specified, check address first, if the symbol found
> does not match the one user specify, print a waring. If not found,
> return -ENOENT, because some symbols might have muplitple instances,
> we don't bother to check symbol name.
>
> Acked-by: Masami Hiramatsu <masami.hiramatsu.pt@xxxxxxxxxxx>
> Signed-off-by: Jianyu Zhan <nasa4836@xxxxxxxxx>
> ---
> Documentation/kprobes.txt | 4 +++-
> kernel/kprobes.c | 32 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++---
> 2 files changed, 32 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/Documentation/kprobes.txt b/Documentation/kprobes.txt
> index 4bbeca8..49af14e 100644
> --- a/Documentation/kprobes.txt
> +++ b/Documentation/kprobes.txt
> @@ -358,7 +358,9 @@ to install a probepoint is known. This field is used to calculate the
> probepoint.
>
> 3. Specify either the kprobe "symbol_name" OR the "addr". If both are
> -specified, kprobe registration will fail with -EINVAL.
> +specified, only check "addr", because some symbols might have muplitple
> +instances. If neither is specified, kprobe registration will fail
> +with -EINVAL.
>
> 4. With CISC architectures (such as i386 and x86_64), the kprobes code
> does not validate if the kprobe.addr is at an instruction boundary.
> diff --git a/kernel/kprobes.c b/kernel/kprobes.c
> index 3214289..81d891b 100644
> --- a/kernel/kprobes.c
> +++ b/kernel/kprobes.c
> @@ -1358,15 +1358,41 @@ static bool within_kprobe_blacklist(unsigned long addr)
> static kprobe_opcode_t *kprobe_addr(struct kprobe *p)
> {
> kprobe_opcode_t *addr = p->addr;
> + char namebuf[KSYM_NAME_LEN];
> + const char *sym_name = NULL;
> + unsigned long offset;
>
> - if ((p->symbol_name && p->addr) ||
> - (!p->symbol_name && !p->addr))
> + if (!p->symbol_name && !p->addr)
> goto invalid;
>
> - if (p->symbol_name) {
> + /*
> + * Some symbols might have muplitple instances,
> + * so if both specified, only check address.
> + */
> + if (unlikely(p->addr && p->symbol_name)) {
> + sym_name = kallsyms_lookup((unsigned long)(p->addr),
> + NULL, &offset, NULL, namebuf);
> + if (!sym_name)
> + return ERR_PTR(-ENOENT);
> +
> + if (strncmp(sym_name, p->symbol_name, KSYM_NAME_LEN)
> + || offset != p->offset) {
> + pr_err("Incorrect symbol or offset, should be "
> + "symbol=%s, offset=%ld.\n", sym_name, offset);
> + goto invalid;
> + }
> + } else if (p->symbol_name) {
> + /* Only symbol case */
> kprobe_lookup_name(p->symbol_name, addr);
> if (!addr)
> return ERR_PTR(-ENOENT);
> + } else {
> + /*
> + * Only address case.
> + * Since we later will do sanity check of the
> + * address range in check_kprobe_address_safe(),
> + * do nothing here.
> + */
> }
>
> addr = (kprobe_opcode_t *)(((char *)addr) + p->offset);
>


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Masami HIRAMATSU
Software Platform Research Dept. Linux Technology Research Center
Hitachi, Ltd., Yokohama Research Laboratory
E-mail: masami.hiramatsu.pt@xxxxxxxxxxx


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