[PATCH AUTOSEL 3.18 21/41] kprobes: Prohibit probing on bsearch()

From: Sasha Levin
Date: Wed Mar 27 2019 - 14:26:11 EST


From: Andrea Righi <righi.andrea@xxxxxxxxx>

[ Upstream commit 02106f883cd745523f7766d90a739f983f19e650 ]

Since kprobe breakpoing handler is using bsearch(), probing on this
routine can cause recursive breakpoint problem.

int3
->do_int3()
->ftrace_int3_handler()
->ftrace_location()
->ftrace_location_range()
->bsearch() -> int3

Prohibit probing on bsearch().

Signed-off-by: Andrea Righi <righi.andrea@xxxxxxxxx>
Acked-by: Masami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@xxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Alexander Shishkin <alexander.shishkin@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@xxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@xxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Mathieu Desnoyers <mathieu.desnoyers@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@xxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/154998813406.31052.8791425358974650922.stgit@devbox
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@xxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sashal@xxxxxxxxxx>
---
lib/bsearch.c | 2 ++
1 file changed, 2 insertions(+)

diff --git a/lib/bsearch.c b/lib/bsearch.c
index e33c179089db..d50048446b77 100644
--- a/lib/bsearch.c
+++ b/lib/bsearch.c
@@ -11,6 +11,7 @@

#include <linux/export.h>
#include <linux/bsearch.h>
+#include <linux/kprobes.h>

/*
* bsearch - binary search an array of elements
@@ -51,3 +52,4 @@ void *bsearch(const void *key, const void *base, size_t num, size_t size,
return NULL;
}
EXPORT_SYMBOL(bsearch);
+NOKPROBE_SYMBOL(bsearch);
--
2.19.1