Re: [PATCH 0/1] x86/kprobes: Prohibit probing of .entry_trampoline code

[Masami Hiramatsu]

On Thu,  8 Mar 2018 22:18:11 -0500
Francis Deslauriers <francis.deslauriers@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> Hi all,
> 
> While fuzzing the Perf kprobe interface, I found that adding a probe on
> the 'entry_SYSCALL_64_trampoline' symbol will crash my 4.16-rc4
> kernel(661e50bc853209e41a5c14a290ca4decc43cbfd1) on a x86_64 Qemu VM.
> 
> How to reproduce:
> 	echo 'p:event1 entry_SYSCALL_64_trampoline' > ./kprobe_events
> 	echo 1 >  events/kprobes/enable
> Crash log:[1]
> 
> My understanding is that the userspace CR3 register has not yet been
> replaced by the kernel's CR3, when the kprobe is triggered. This means
> that the kernel addresses can not be translated, thus making the
> handling of the kprobe impossible.

Thanks for reporting!
And yes, all entry code must be nokprobe.

> 
> This can be fixed by blacklisting the .entry_trampoline section. See
> patch[1/1].
> 
> Here is the config I am using[2].
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> Francis Deslauriers
> EfficiOS inc.
> 
> 1:http://paste.ubuntu.com/p/djnpZCzQKv/
> 2:http://paste.ubuntu.com/p/3jrFYt6XQB/
> 
> Francis Deslauriers (1):
>   x86/kprobes: Prohibit probing of .entry_trampoline code
> 
>  arch/x86/include/asm/sections.h |  1 +
>  arch/x86/kernel/kprobes/core.c  | 10 +++++++++-
>  arch/x86/kernel/vmlinux.lds.S   |  2 ++
>  3 files changed, 12 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
> 
> -- 
> 2.7.4
> 


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Masami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@xxxxxxxxxx>