The patch titled
Subject: kcov: ensure irq code sees a valid area
has been added to the -mm tree. Its filename is
kcov-ensure-irq-code-sees-a-valid-area.patch
This patch should soon appear at
http://ozlabs.org/~akpm/mmots/broken-out/kcov-ensure-irq-code-sees-a-valid-area.patch
and later at
http://ozlabs.org/~akpm/mmotm/broken-out/kcov-ensure-irq-code-sees-a-valid-area.patch
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From: Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@xxxxxxx>
Subject: kcov: ensure irq code sees a valid area
Patch series "kcov: fix unexpected faults".
These patches fix a few issues where KCOV code could trigger recursive
faults, discovered while debugging a patch enabling KCOV for arch/arm:
* On CONFIG_PREEMPT kernels, there's a small race window where
__sanitizer_cov_trace_pc() can see a bogus kcov_area.
* Lazy faulting of the vmalloc area can cause mutual recursion between
fault handling code and __sanitizer_cov_trace_pc().
* During the context switch, switching the mm can cause the kcov_area to
be transiently unmapped.
These are prerequisites for enabling KCOV on arm, but the issues
themsevles are generic -- we just happen to avoid them by chance rather
than design on x86-64 and arm64.
This patch (of 3):
For kernels built with CONFIG_PREEMPT, some C code may execute before or
after the interrupt handler, while the hardirq count is zero. In these
cases, in_task() can return true.
A task can be interrupted in the middle of a KCOV_DISABLE ioctl while it
resets the task's kcov data via kcov_task_init(). Instrumented code
executed during this period will call __sanitizer_cov_trace_pc(), and as
in_task() returns true, will inspect t->kcov_mode before trying to write
to t->kcov_area.
In kcov_init_task() we update t->kcov_{mode,area,size} with plain stores,
which may be re-ordered, torn, etc. Thus __sanitizer_cov_trace_pc() may
see bogus values for any of these fields, and may attempt to write to
memory which is not mapped.
Let's avoid this by using WRITE_ONCE() to set t->kcov_mode, with a
barrier() to ensure this is ordered before we clear t->kov_{area,size}.
This ensures that any code execute while kcov_init_task() is preempted
will either see valid values for t->kcov_{area,size}, or will see that
t->kcov_mode is KCOV_MODE_DISABLED, and bail out without touching
t->kcov_area.
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20180504135535.53744-2-mark.rutland@xxxxxxx
Signed-off-by: Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@xxxxxxx>
Acked-by: Andrey Ryabinin <aryabinin@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Dmitry Vyukov <dvyukov@xxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@xxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
kernel/kcov.c | 3 ++-
1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
diff -puN kernel/kcov.c~kcov-ensure-irq-code-sees-a-valid-area kernel/kcov.c
--- a/kernel/kcov.c~kcov-ensure-irq-code-sees-a-valid-area
+++ a/kernel/kcov.c
@@ -241,7 +241,8 @@ static void kcov_put(struct kcov *kcov)
void kcov_task_init(struct task_struct *t)
{
- t->kcov_mode = KCOV_MODE_DISABLED;
+ WRITE_ONCE(t->kcov_mode, KCOV_MODE_DISABLED);
+ barrier();
t->kcov_size = 0;
t->kcov_area = NULL;
t->kcov = NULL;
_
Patches currently in -mm which might be from mark.rutland@xxxxxxx are
kcov-ensure-irq-code-sees-a-valid-area.patch
kcov-prefault-the-kcov_area.patch
sched-core-kcov-avoid-kcov_area-during-task-switch.patch
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