[RFC PATCH 3/4] kgdb: Add NOKPROBE labels on the trap handler functions

From: Daniel Thompson
Date: Fri Jun 05 2020 - 09:22:36 EST


Currently kgdb honours the kprobe blacklist but doesn't place its own
trap handling code on the list. Add macros to discourage attempting to
use kgdb to debug itself.

These changes do not make it impossible to provoke recursive trapping
since they do not cover all the calls that can be made on kgdb's entry
logic. However going much further whilst we are sharing the kprobe
blacklist risks reducing the capabilities of kprobe and this is a bad
trade off (especially so given kgdb's users are currently conditioned to
avoid recursive traps).

Signed-off-by: Daniel Thompson <daniel.thompson@xxxxxxxxxx>
---
kernel/debug/debug_core.c | 9 ++++++++-
1 file changed, 8 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/kernel/debug/debug_core.c b/kernel/debug/debug_core.c
index 4a2df4509fe1..21d1d91da4bb 100644
--- a/kernel/debug/debug_core.c
+++ b/kernel/debug/debug_core.c
@@ -184,6 +184,7 @@ int __weak kgdb_arch_remove_breakpoint(struct kgdb_bkpt *bpt)
return probe_kernel_write((char *)bpt->bpt_addr,
(char *)bpt->saved_instr, BREAK_INSTR_SIZE);
}
+NOKPROBE_SYMBOL(kgdb_arch_remove_breakpoint);

int __weak kgdb_validate_break_address(unsigned long addr)
{
@@ -321,6 +322,7 @@ static void kgdb_flush_swbreak_addr(unsigned long addr)
/* Force flush instruction cache if it was outside the mm */
flush_icache_range(addr, addr + BREAK_INSTR_SIZE);
}
+NOKPROBE_SYMBOL(kgdb_flush_swbreak_addr);

/*
* SW breakpoint management:
@@ -411,6 +413,7 @@ int dbg_deactivate_sw_breakpoints(void)
}
return ret;
}
+NOKPROBE_SYMBOL(dbg_deactivate_sw_breakpoints);

int dbg_remove_sw_break(unsigned long addr)
{
@@ -567,6 +570,7 @@ static int kgdb_reenter_check(struct kgdb_state *ks)

return 1;
}
+NOKPROBE_SYMBOL(kgdb_reenter_check);

static void dbg_touch_watchdogs(void)
{
@@ -801,6 +805,7 @@ static int kgdb_cpu_enter(struct kgdb_state *ks, struct pt_regs *regs,

return kgdb_info[cpu].ret_state;
}
+NOKPROBE_SYMBOL(kgdb_cpu_enter);

/*
* kgdb_handle_exception() - main entry point from a kernel exception
@@ -845,6 +850,7 @@ kgdb_handle_exception(int evector, int signo, int ecode, struct pt_regs *regs)
arch_kgdb_ops.enable_nmi(1);
return ret;
}
+NOKPROBE_SYMBOL(kgdb_handle_exception);

/*
* GDB places a breakpoint at this function to know dynamically loaded objects.
@@ -879,6 +885,7 @@ int kgdb_nmicallback(int cpu, void *regs)
#endif
return 1;
}
+NOKPROBE_SYMBOL(kgdb_nmicallback);

int kgdb_nmicallin(int cpu, int trapnr, void *regs, int err_code,
atomic_t *send_ready)
@@ -904,6 +911,7 @@ int kgdb_nmicallin(int cpu, int trapnr, void *regs, int err_code,
#endif
return 1;
}
+NOKPROBE_SYMBOL(kgdb_nmicallin);

static void kgdb_console_write(struct console *co, const char *s,
unsigned count)
@@ -1204,7 +1212,6 @@ noinline void kgdb_breakpoint(void)
atomic_dec(&kgdb_setting_breakpoint);
}
EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(kgdb_breakpoint);
-NOKPROBE_SYMBOL(kgdb_breakpoint);

static int __init opt_kgdb_wait(char *str)
{
--
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