This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled powerpc/kprobes: Fix null pointer reference in arch_prepare_kprobe() to the 5.15-stable tree which can be found at: http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/stable/stable-queue.git;a=summary The filename of the patch is: powerpc-kprobes-fix-null-pointer-reference-in-arch_p.patch and it can be found in the queue-5.15 subdirectory. If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree, please let <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> know about it. commit 4a2b2cbb41285b2434273ffa455e6dc1c9eab44a Author: Li Huafei <lihuafei1@xxxxxxxxxx> Date: Fri Sep 23 17:32:53 2022 +0800 powerpc/kprobes: Fix null pointer reference in arch_prepare_kprobe() [ Upstream commit 97f88a3d723162781d6cbfdc7b9617eefab55b19 ] I found a null pointer reference in arch_prepare_kprobe(): # echo 'p cmdline_proc_show' > kprobe_events # echo 'p cmdline_proc_show+16' >> kprobe_events Kernel attempted to read user page (0) - exploit attempt? (uid: 0) BUG: Kernel NULL pointer dereference on read at 0x00000000 Faulting instruction address: 0xc000000000050bfc Oops: Kernel access of bad area, sig: 11 [#1] LE PAGE_SIZE=64K MMU=Radix SMP NR_CPUS=2048 NUMA PowerNV Modules linked in: CPU: 0 PID: 122 Comm: sh Not tainted 6.0.0-rc3-00007-gdcf8e5633e2e #10 NIP: c000000000050bfc LR: c000000000050bec CTR: 0000000000005bdc REGS: c0000000348475b0 TRAP: 0300 Not tainted (6.0.0-rc3-00007-gdcf8e5633e2e) MSR: 9000000000009033 <SF,HV,EE,ME,IR,DR,RI,LE> CR: 88002444 XER: 20040006 CFAR: c00000000022d100 DAR: 0000000000000000 DSISR: 40000000 IRQMASK: 0 ... NIP arch_prepare_kprobe+0x10c/0x2d0 LR arch_prepare_kprobe+0xfc/0x2d0 Call Trace: 0xc0000000012f77a0 (unreliable) register_kprobe+0x3c0/0x7a0 __register_trace_kprobe+0x140/0x1a0 __trace_kprobe_create+0x794/0x1040 trace_probe_create+0xc4/0xe0 create_or_delete_trace_kprobe+0x2c/0x80 trace_parse_run_command+0xf0/0x210 probes_write+0x20/0x40 vfs_write+0xfc/0x450 ksys_write+0x84/0x140 system_call_exception+0x17c/0x3a0 system_call_vectored_common+0xe8/0x278 --- interrupt: 3000 at 0x7fffa5682de0 NIP: 00007fffa5682de0 LR: 0000000000000000 CTR: 0000000000000000 REGS: c000000034847e80 TRAP: 3000 Not tainted (6.0.0-rc3-00007-gdcf8e5633e2e) MSR: 900000000280f033 <SF,HV,VEC,VSX,EE,PR,FP,ME,IR,DR,RI,LE> CR: 44002408 XER: 00000000 The address being probed has some special: cmdline_proc_show: Probe based on ftrace cmdline_proc_show+16: Probe for the next instruction at the ftrace location The ftrace-based kprobe does not generate kprobe::ainsn::insn, it gets set to NULL. In arch_prepare_kprobe() it will check for: ... prev = get_kprobe(p->addr - 1); preempt_enable_no_resched(); if (prev && ppc_inst_prefixed(ppc_inst_read(prev->ainsn.insn))) { ... If prev is based on ftrace, 'ppc_inst_read(prev->ainsn.insn)' will occur with a null pointer reference. At this point prev->addr will not be a prefixed instruction, so the check can be skipped. Check if prev is ftrace-based kprobe before reading 'prev->ainsn.insn' to fix this problem. Fixes: b4657f7650ba ("powerpc/kprobes: Don't allow breakpoints on suffixes") Signed-off-by: Li Huafei <lihuafei1@xxxxxxxxxx> [mpe: Trim oops] Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman <mpe@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20220923093253.177298-1-lihuafei1@xxxxxxxxxx Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sashal@xxxxxxxxxx> diff --git a/arch/powerpc/kernel/kprobes.c b/arch/powerpc/kernel/kprobes.c index 7a7cd6bda53e..61552f57db0b 100644 --- a/arch/powerpc/kernel/kprobes.c +++ b/arch/powerpc/kernel/kprobes.c @@ -140,7 +140,13 @@ int arch_prepare_kprobe(struct kprobe *p) preempt_disable(); prev = get_kprobe(p->addr - 1); preempt_enable_no_resched(); - if (prev && ppc_inst_prefixed(ppc_inst_read(prev->ainsn.insn))) { + + /* + * When prev is a ftrace-based kprobe, we don't have an insn, and it + * doesn't probe for prefixed instruction. + */ + if (prev && !kprobe_ftrace(prev) && + ppc_inst_prefixed(ppc_inst_read(prev->ainsn.insn))) { printk("Cannot register a kprobe on the second word of prefixed instruction\n"); ret = -EINVAL; }