[PATCH] kprobe: safely access memory specified by userspace

From: Changbin Du
Date: Fri Jan 25 2019 - 10:11:17 EST


The userspace can ask kprobe to intercept strings at any memory address,
including invalid kernel address. In this case, fetch_store_strlen()
would crash since it uses general usercopy function.

For example, we can crash the kernel by doing something as below:

$ sudo kprobe 'p:do_sys_open +0(+0(%si)):string'

[ 103.620391] BUG: GPF in non-whitelisted uaccess (non-canonical address?)
[ 103.622104] general protection fault: 0000 [#1] SMP PTI
[ 103.623424] CPU: 10 PID: 1046 Comm: cat Not tainted 5.0.0-rc3-00130-gd73aba1-dirty #96
[ 103.625321] Hardware name: QEMU Standard PC (Q35 + ICH9, 2009), BIOS rel-1.12.0-2-g628b2e6-dirty-20190104_103505-linux 04/01/2014
[ 103.628284] RIP: 0010:process_fetch_insn+0x1ab/0x4b0
[ 103.629518] Code: 10 83 80 28 2e 00 00 01 31 d2 31 ff 48 8b 74 24 28 eb 0c 81 fa ff 0f 00 00 7f 1c 85 c0 75 18 66 66 90 0f ae e8 48 63
ca 89 f8 <8a> 0c 31 66 66 90 83 c2 01 84 c9 75 dc 89 54 24 34 89 44 24 28 48
[ 103.634032] RSP: 0018:ffff88845eb37ce0 EFLAGS: 00010246
[ 103.635312] RAX: 0000000000000000 RBX: ffff888456c4e5a8 RCX: 0000000000000000
[ 103.637057] RDX: 0000000000000000 RSI: 2e646c2f6374652f RDI: 0000000000000000
[ 103.638795] RBP: 0000000000000000 R08: 0000000000000000 R09: 0000000000000000
[ 103.640556] R10: 0000000000000001 R11: 0000000000000000 R12: 0000000000000000
[ 103.642297] R13: 0000000000000000 R14: 0000000000000000 R15: 0000000000000000
[ 103.644040] FS: 0000000000000000(0000) GS:ffff88846f000000(0000) knlGS:0000000000000000
[ 103.646019] CS: 0010 DS: 0000 ES: 0000 CR0: 0000000080050033
[ 103.647436] CR2: 00007ffc79758038 CR3: 0000000463360006 CR4: 0000000000020ee0
[ 103.649147] Call Trace:
[ 103.649781] ? sched_clock_cpu+0xc/0xa0
[ 103.650747] ? do_sys_open+0x5/0x220
[ 103.651635] kprobe_trace_func+0x303/0x380
[ 103.652645] ? do_sys_open+0x5/0x220
[ 103.653528] kprobe_dispatcher+0x45/0x50
[ 103.654682] ? do_sys_open+0x1/0x220
[ 103.655875] kprobe_ftrace_handler+0x90/0xf0
[ 103.657282] ftrace_ops_assist_func+0x54/0xf0
[ 103.658564] ? __call_rcu+0x1dc/0x280
[ 103.659482] 0xffffffffc00000bf
[ 103.660384] ? __ia32_sys_open+0x20/0x20
[ 103.661682] ? do_sys_open+0x1/0x220
[ 103.662863] do_sys_open+0x5/0x220
[ 103.663988] do_syscall_64+0x60/0x210
[ 103.665201] entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x49/0xbe
[ 103.666862] RIP: 0033:0x7fc22fadccdd
[ 103.668034] Code: 48 89 54 24 e0 41 83 e2 40 75 32 89 f0 25 00 00 41 00 3d 00 00 41 00 74 24 89 f2 b8 01 01 00 00 48 89 fe bf 9c ff ff
ff 0f 05 <48> 3d 00 f0 ff ff 77 33 f3 c3 66 0f 1f 84 00 00 00 00 00 48 8d 44
[ 103.674029] RSP: 002b:00007ffc7972c3a8 EFLAGS: 00000287 ORIG_RAX: 0000000000000101
[ 103.676512] RAX: ffffffffffffffda RBX: 0000562f86147a21 RCX: 00007fc22fadccdd
[ 103.678853] RDX: 0000000000080000 RSI: 00007fc22fae1428 RDI: 00000000ffffff9c
[ 103.681151] RBP: ffffffffffffffff R08: 0000000000000000 R09: 0000000000000000
[ 103.683489] R10: 0000000000000000 R11: 0000000000000287 R12: 00007fc22fce90a8
[ 103.685774] R13: 0000000000000001 R14: 0000000000000000 R15: 0000000000000000
[ 103.688056] Modules linked in:
[ 103.689131] ---[ end trace 43792035c28984a1 ]---

This can be fixed by using probe_mem_read() instead.

Signed-off-by: Changbin Du <changbin.du@xxxxxxxxx>
Cc: stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
---
kernel/trace/trace_kprobe.c | 10 +---------
1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 9 deletions(-)

diff --git a/kernel/trace/trace_kprobe.c b/kernel/trace/trace_kprobe.c
index d5fb09ebba8b..9eaf07f99212 100644
--- a/kernel/trace/trace_kprobe.c
+++ b/kernel/trace/trace_kprobe.c
@@ -861,22 +861,14 @@ static const struct file_operations kprobe_profile_ops = {
static nokprobe_inline int
fetch_store_strlen(unsigned long addr)
{
- mm_segment_t old_fs;
int ret, len = 0;
u8 c;

- old_fs = get_fs();
- set_fs(KERNEL_DS);
- pagefault_disable();
-
do {
- ret = __copy_from_user_inatomic(&c, (u8 *)addr + len, 1);
+ ret = probe_mem_read(&c, (u8 *)addr + len, 1);
len++;
} while (c && ret == 0 && len < MAX_STRING_SIZE);

- pagefault_enable();
- set_fs(old_fs);
-
return (ret < 0) ? ret : len;
}

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2.19.1