Re: [PATCH] x86/stacktrace: Do not access user space memory unnecessarily

[Peter Zijlstra]

On Tue, Jul 02, 2019 at 01:39:05PM -0400, Steven Rostedt wrote:
> On Tue, 2 Jul 2019 11:33:55 -0400
> Steven Rostedt <rostedt@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> 
> > On Tue, 2 Jul 2019 16:14:05 +0200 (CEST)
> > Thomas Gleixner <tglx@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > 
> > > On Tue, 2 Jul 2019, Peter Zijlstra wrote:
> > >   
> > > > On Tue, Jul 02, 2019 at 02:31:51PM +0900, Eiichi Tsukata wrote:    
> > > > > Put the boundary check before it accesses user space to prevent unnecessary
> > > > > access which might crash the machine.
> > > > > 
> > > > > Especially, ftrace preemptirq/irq_disable event with user stack trace
> > > > > option can trigger SEGV in pid 1 which leads to panic.    
> > 
> > Note, I'm only able to trigger this crash with the irq_disable event.
> > The irq_enable and preempt_disable/enable events work just fine. This
> > leads me to believe that the TRACE_IRQS_OFF macro (which uses a thunk
> > trampoline) may have some issues and is probably the place to look at.
> 
> I figured it out.
> 
> It's another "corruption of the cr2" register issue. The following

Arrggghhh..

> patch makes the issue go away. I'm not suggesting that we use this
> patch, but it shows where the bug lies.
> 
> IIRC, there was patches posted before that fixed this issue. I'll go
> look to see if I can dig them up. Was it Joel that sent them?

https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20190320221534.165ab87b@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx

I think; lemme re-read that thread.