Re: [PATCH v5 2/5] powerpc/kprobes: Mark newly allocated probes as RO

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Michael Ellerman <mpe@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes:
> Russell Currey <ruscur@xxxxxxxxxx> writes:
>> With CONFIG_STRICT_KERNEL_RWX=y and CONFIG_KPROBES=y, there will be one
>> W+X page at boot by default.  This can be tested with
>> CONFIG_PPC_PTDUMP=y and CONFIG_PPC_DEBUG_WX=y set, and checking the
>> kernel log during boot.
>>
>> powerpc doesn't implement its own alloc() for kprobes like other
>> architectures do, but we couldn't immediately mark RO anyway since we do
>> a memcpy to the page we allocate later.  After that, nothing should be
>> allowed to modify the page, and write permissions are removed well
>> before the kprobe is armed.
>>
>> Thus mark newly allocated probes as read-only once it's safe to do so.
>>
>> Signed-off-by: Russell Currey <ruscur@xxxxxxxxxx>
>> ---
>>  arch/powerpc/kernel/kprobes.c | 3 +++
>>  1 file changed, 3 insertions(+)
>>
>> diff --git a/arch/powerpc/kernel/kprobes.c b/arch/powerpc/kernel/kprobes.c
>> index 2d27ec4feee4..2610496de7c7 100644
>> --- a/arch/powerpc/kernel/kprobes.c
>> +++ b/arch/powerpc/kernel/kprobes.c
>> @@ -24,6 +24,7 @@
>>  #include <asm/sstep.h>
>>  #include <asm/sections.h>
>>  #include <linux/uaccess.h>
>> +#include <linux/set_memory.h>
>>  
>>  DEFINE_PER_CPU(struct kprobe *, current_kprobe) = NULL;
>>  DEFINE_PER_CPU(struct kprobe_ctlblk, kprobe_ctlblk);
>> @@ -131,6 +132,8 @@ int arch_prepare_kprobe(struct kprobe *p)
>>  			(unsigned long)p->ainsn.insn + sizeof(kprobe_opcode_t));
>>  	}
>>  
>> +	set_memory_ro((unsigned long)p->ainsn.insn, 1);
>> +
>
> That comes from:
> 	p->ainsn.insn = get_insn_slot();
>
>
> Which ends up in __get_insn_slot() I think. And that looks very much
> like it's going to hand out multiple slots per page, which isn't going
> to work because you've just marked the whole page RO.
>
> So I would expect this to crash on the 2nd kprobe that's installed. Have
> you tested it somehow?

I'm not sure if this is the issue I was talking about, but it doesn't
survive ftracetest:

  [ 1139.576047] ------------[ cut here ]------------
  [ 1139.576322] kernel BUG at mm/memory.c:2036!
  cpu 0x1f: Vector: 700 (Program Check) at [c000001fd6c675d0]
      pc: c00000000035d018: apply_to_page_range+0x318/0x610
      lr: c0000000000900bc: change_memory_attr+0x4c/0x70
      sp: c000001fd6c67860
     msr: 9000000000029033
    current = 0xc000001fa4a47880
    paca    = 0xc000001ffffe5c80   irqmask: 0x03   irq_happened: 0x01
      pid   = 7168, comm = ftracetest
  kernel BUG at mm/memory.c:2036!
  Linux version 5.4.0-gcc-8.2.0-11694-gf1f9aa266811 (michael@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx) (gcc version 8.2.0 (crosstool-NG 1.24.0-rc1.16-9627a04)) #1384 SMP Thu Dec 5 22:11:09 AEDT 2019
  enter ? for help
  [c000001fd6c67940] c0000000000900bc change_memory_attr+0x4c/0x70
  [c000001fd6c67970] c000000000053c48 arch_prepare_kprobe+0xb8/0x120
  [c000001fd6c679e0] c00000000022f718 register_kprobe+0x608/0x790
  [c000001fd6c67a40] c00000000022fc50 register_kretprobe+0x230/0x350
  [c000001fd6c67a80] c0000000002849b4 __register_trace_kprobe+0xf4/0x1a0
  [c000001fd6c67af0] c000000000285b18 trace_kprobe_create+0x738/0xf70
  [c000001fd6c67c30] c000000000286378 create_or_delete_trace_kprobe+0x28/0x70
  [c000001fd6c67c50] c00000000025f024 trace_run_command+0xc4/0xe0
  [c000001fd6c67ca0] c00000000025f128 trace_parse_run_command+0xe8/0x230
  [c000001fd6c67d40] c0000000002845d0 probes_write+0x20/0x40
  [c000001fd6c67d60] c0000000003eef4c __vfs_write+0x3c/0x70
  [c000001fd6c67d80] c0000000003f26a0 vfs_write+0xd0/0x200
  [c000001fd6c67dd0] c0000000003f2a3c ksys_write+0x7c/0x140
  [c000001fd6c67e20] c00000000000b9e0 system_call+0x5c/0x68
  --- Exception: c01 (System Call) at 00007fff8f06e420
  SP (7ffff93d6830) is in userspace
  1f:mon> client_loop: send disconnect: Broken pipe


Sorry I didn't get any more info on the crash, I lost the console and
then some CI bot stole the machine 8)

You should be able to reproduce just by running ftracetest.

cheers



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