This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled
lib/bug.c: exclude non-BUG/WARN exceptions from report_bug()
to the 4.15-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:
lib-bug.c-exclude-non-bug-warn-exceptions-from-report_bug.patch
and it can be found in the queue-4.15 subdirectory.
If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree,
please let <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> know about it.
>From 1b4cfe3c0a30dde968fb43c577a8d7e262a145ee Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Kees Cook <keescook@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Fri, 9 Mar 2018 15:51:02 -0800
Subject: lib/bug.c: exclude non-BUG/WARN exceptions from report_bug()
From: Kees Cook <keescook@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
commit 1b4cfe3c0a30dde968fb43c577a8d7e262a145ee upstream.
Commit b8347c219649 ("x86/debug: Handle warnings before the notifier
chain, to fix KGDB crash") changed the ordering of fixups, and did not
take into account the case of x86 processing non-WARN() and non-BUG()
exceptions. This would lead to output of a false BUG line with no other
information.
In the case of a refcount exception, it would be immediately followed by
the refcount WARN(), producing very strange double-"cut here":
lkdtm: attempting bad refcount_inc() overflow
------------[ cut here ]------------
Kernel BUG at 0000000065f29de5 [verbose debug info unavailable]
------------[ cut here ]------------
refcount_t overflow at lkdtm_REFCOUNT_INC_OVERFLOW+0x6b/0x90 in cat[3065], uid/euid: 0/0
WARNING: CPU: 0 PID: 3065 at kernel/panic.c:657 refcount_error_report+0x9a/0xa4
...
In the prior ordering, exceptions were searched first:
do_trap_no_signal(struct task_struct *tsk, int trapnr, char *str,
...
if (fixup_exception(regs, trapnr))
return 0;
- if (fixup_bug(regs, trapnr))
- return 0;
-
As a result, fixup_bugs()'s is_valid_bugaddr() didn't take into account
needing to search the exception list first, since that had already
happened.
So, instead of searching the exception list twice (once in
is_valid_bugaddr() and then again in fixup_exception()), just add a
simple sanity check to report_bug() that will immediately bail out if a
BUG() (or WARN()) entry is not found.
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20180301225934.GA34350@beast
Fixes: b8347c219649 ("x86/debug: Handle warnings before the notifier chain, to fix KGDB crash")
Signed-off-by: Kees Cook <keescook@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@xxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Borislav Petkov <bp@xxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Richard Weinberger <richard.weinberger@xxxxxxxxx>
Cc: <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
lib/bug.c | 2 ++
1 file changed, 2 insertions(+)
--- a/lib/bug.c
+++ b/lib/bug.c
@@ -150,6 +150,8 @@ enum bug_trap_type report_bug(unsigned l
return BUG_TRAP_TYPE_NONE;
bug = find_bug(bugaddr);
+ if (!bug)
+ return BUG_TRAP_TYPE_NONE;
file = NULL;
line = 0;
Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from keescook@xxxxxxxxxxxx are
queue-4.15/bug-use-pb-in-bug-and-stack-protector-failure.patch
queue-4.15/lib-bug.c-exclude-non-bug-warn-exceptions-from-report_bug.patch