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