Re: [PATCH 1/3] x86/perf/hw_breakpoint: Disallow kernel breakpoints unless kprobe-safe

From: Frederic Weisbecker
Date: Tue Sep 01 2015 - 06:57:17 EST


2015-08-05 1:29 GMT+02:00 åæéå / HIRAMATUïMASAMI
<masami.hiramatsu.pt@xxxxxxxxxxx>:
> Hi,
>
>> From: Frederic Weisbecker [mailto:fweisbec@xxxxxxxxx]
>>
>> On Thu, Jul 30, 2015 at 08:32:40PM -0700, Andy Lutomirski wrote:
>> > Code on the kprobe blacklist doesn't want unexpected int3
>> > exceptions. It probably doesn't want unexpected debug exceptions
>> > either. Be safe: disallow breakpoints in nokprobes code.
>> >
>> > On non-CONFIG_KPROBES kernels, there is no kprobe blacklist. In
>> > that case, disallow kernel breakpoints entirely.
>> >
>> > It will be particularly important to keep hw breakpoints out of the
>> > entry and NMI code once we move debug exceptions off the IST stack.
>> >
>> > Signed-off-by: Andy Lutomirski <luto@xxxxxxxxxx>
>> > ---
>> > arch/x86/kernel/hw_breakpoint.c | 15 +++++++++++++++
>> > include/linux/kprobes.h | 2 ++
>> > kernel/kprobes.c | 2 +-
>> > 3 files changed, 18 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
>> >
>> > diff --git a/arch/x86/kernel/hw_breakpoint.c b/arch/x86/kernel/hw_breakpoint.c
>> > index 7114ba220fd4..78f3e90c5659 100644
>> > --- a/arch/x86/kernel/hw_breakpoint.c
>> > +++ b/arch/x86/kernel/hw_breakpoint.c
>> > @@ -32,6 +32,7 @@
>> > #include <linux/irqflags.h>
>> > #include <linux/notifier.h>
>> > #include <linux/kallsyms.h>
>> > +#include <linux/kprobes.h>
>> > #include <linux/percpu.h>
>> > #include <linux/kdebug.h>
>> > #include <linux/kernel.h>
>> > @@ -243,6 +244,20 @@ static int arch_build_bp_info(struct perf_event *bp)
>> > info->type = X86_BREAKPOINT_RW;
>> > break;
>> > case HW_BREAKPOINT_X:
>> > + /*
>> > + * We don't allow kernel breakpoints in places that are not
>> > + * acceptable for kprobes. On non-kprobes kernels, we don't
>> > + * allow kernel breakpoints at all.
>> > + */
>> > + if (bp->attr.bp_addr >= TASK_SIZE_MAX) {
>> > +#ifdef CONFIG_KPROBES
>> > + if (within_kprobe_blacklist(bp->attr.bp_addr))
>> > + return -EINVAL;
>> > +#else
>> > + return -EINVAL;
>> > +#endif
>> > + }
>> > +
>>
>> It should be done on generic code I think. In validate_hw_breakpoint()
>> under the arch_check_bp_in_kernelspace() check.
>
> Agreed, kprobes also does it in generic code.

Well, the patchset got applied anyway and the reviews ignored...
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