Re: [PATCH v3] module: Fix display of wrong module .text address

From: Kees Cook
Date: Tue May 01 2018 - 22:20:56 EST


On Wed, Apr 18, 2018 at 12:14 AM, Thomas Richter <tmricht@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Reading file /proc/modules shows the correct address:
> [root@s35lp76 ~]# cat /proc/modules | egrep '^qeth_l2'
> qeth_l2 94208 1 - Live 0x000003ff80401000
>
> and reading file /sys/module/qeth_l2/sections/.text
> [root@s35lp76 ~]# cat /sys/module/qeth_l2/sections/.text
> 0x0000000018ea8363
> displays a random address.
>
> This breaks the perf tool which uses this address on s390
> to calculate start of .text section in memory.
>
> Fix this by printing the correct (unhashed) address.
>
> Thanks to Jessica Yu for helping on this.
>
> Fixes: ef0010a30935 ("vsprintf: don't use 'restricted_pointer()' when not restricting")
> Cc: <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> # v4.15+
> Suggested-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Signed-off-by: Thomas Richter <tmricht@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Cc: Jessica Yu <jeyu@xxxxxxxxxx>
> ---
> kernel/module.c | 3 ++-
> 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
>
> diff --git a/kernel/module.c b/kernel/module.c
> index a6e43a5806a1..40b42000bd80 100644
> --- a/kernel/module.c
> +++ b/kernel/module.c
> @@ -1472,7 +1472,8 @@ static ssize_t module_sect_show(struct module_attribute *mattr,
> {
> struct module_sect_attr *sattr =
> container_of(mattr, struct module_sect_attr, mattr);
> - return sprintf(buf, "0x%pK\n", (void *)sattr->address);
> + return sprintf(buf, "0x%px\n", kptr_restrict < 2 ?
> + (void *)sattr->address : NULL);

Errr... this looks reversed to me.

I would expect: "kptr_restrict < 2 ? NULL : (void *)sattr->address"

-Kees

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Kees Cook
Pixel Security