[PATCH v2] x86/kprobes: Fix 1 byte conditional jump target

From: Nadav Amit
Date: Wed Feb 08 2023 - 02:17:51 EST


From: Nadav Amit <namit@xxxxxxxxxx>

Commit 3bc753c06dd0 ("kbuild: treat char as always unsigned") broke
kprobes. Setting a probe-point on 1 byte conditional jump can cause the
kernel to crash, as the branch target is not sign-extended and instead
zero-extended.

In fact, there is no need for any casting of immediate.value since sign
extension is already done during its decoding in insn_get_immediate().

Fix by removing the casting of the 1 byte conditional jump target.
Future patches can also remove the casting (and sign extension) in other
cases in which immediate.value is being used.

Fixes: 3bc753c06dd0 ("kbuild: treat char as always unsigned")
Suggested-by: Masami Hiramatsu (Google) <mhiramat@xxxxxxxxxx>
Suggested-by: Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@xxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Nadav Amit <namit@xxxxxxxxxx>

---

v1->v2: Removing the casting completely [Dave]
---
arch/x86/kernel/kprobes/core.c | 2 +-
1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/arch/x86/kernel/kprobes/core.c b/arch/x86/kernel/kprobes/core.c
index b36f3c367cb2..695873c0f50b 100644
--- a/arch/x86/kernel/kprobes/core.c
+++ b/arch/x86/kernel/kprobes/core.c
@@ -625,7 +625,7 @@ static int prepare_emulation(struct kprobe *p, struct insn *insn)
/* 1 byte conditional jump */
p->ainsn.emulate_op = kprobe_emulate_jcc;
p->ainsn.jcc.type = opcode & 0xf;
- p->ainsn.rel32 = *(char *)insn->immediate.bytes;
+ p->ainsn.rel32 = insn->immediate.value;
break;
case 0x0f:
opcode = insn->opcode.bytes[1];
--
2.34.1