This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled
x86/kprobes: Fix kernel crash when probing .entry_trampoline code
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:
x86-kprobes-fix-kernel-crash-when-probing-.entry_trampoline-code.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 c07a8f8b08ba683ea24f3ac9159f37ae94daf47f Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Francis Deslauriers <francis.deslauriers@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Thu, 8 Mar 2018 22:18:12 -0500
Subject: x86/kprobes: Fix kernel crash when probing .entry_trampoline code
From: Francis Deslauriers <francis.deslauriers@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
commit c07a8f8b08ba683ea24f3ac9159f37ae94daf47f upstream.
Disable the kprobe probing of the entry trampoline:
.entry_trampoline is a code area that is used to ensure page table
isolation between userspace and kernelspace.
At the beginning of the execution of the trampoline, we load the
kernel's CR3 register. This has the effect of enabling the translation
of the kernel virtual addresses to physical addresses. Before this
happens most kernel addresses can not be translated because the running
process' CR3 is still used.
If a kprobe is placed on the trampoline code before that change of the
CR3 register happens the kernel crashes because int3 handling pages are
not accessible.
To fix this, add the .entry_trampoline section to the kprobe blacklist
to prohibit the probing of code before all the kernel pages are
accessible.
Signed-off-by: Francis Deslauriers <francis.deslauriers@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Reviewed-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Andy Lutomirski <luto@xxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Borislav Petkov <bp@xxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Brian Gerst <brgerst@xxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Denys Vlasenko <dvlasenk@xxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@xxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Josh Poimboeuf <jpoimboe@xxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: mathieu.desnoyers@xxxxxxxxxxxx
Cc: mhiramat@xxxxxxxxxx
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1520565492-4637-2-git-send-email-francis.deslauriers@xxxxxxxxxxxx
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@xxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
arch/x86/include/asm/sections.h | 1 +
arch/x86/kernel/kprobes/core.c | 10 +++++++++-
arch/x86/kernel/vmlinux.lds.S | 2 ++
3 files changed, 12 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
--- a/arch/x86/include/asm/sections.h
+++ b/arch/x86/include/asm/sections.h
@@ -10,6 +10,7 @@ extern struct exception_table_entry __st
#if defined(CONFIG_X86_64)
extern char __end_rodata_hpage_align[];
+extern char __entry_trampoline_start[], __entry_trampoline_end[];
#endif
#endif /* _ASM_X86_SECTIONS_H */
--- a/arch/x86/kernel/kprobes/core.c
+++ b/arch/x86/kernel/kprobes/core.c
@@ -1168,10 +1168,18 @@ NOKPROBE_SYMBOL(longjmp_break_handler);
bool arch_within_kprobe_blacklist(unsigned long addr)
{
+ bool is_in_entry_trampoline_section = false;
+
+#ifdef CONFIG_X86_64
+ is_in_entry_trampoline_section =
+ (addr >= (unsigned long)__entry_trampoline_start &&
+ addr < (unsigned long)__entry_trampoline_end);
+#endif
return (addr >= (unsigned long)__kprobes_text_start &&
addr < (unsigned long)__kprobes_text_end) ||
(addr >= (unsigned long)__entry_text_start &&
- addr < (unsigned long)__entry_text_end);
+ addr < (unsigned long)__entry_text_end) ||
+ is_in_entry_trampoline_section;
}
int __init arch_init_kprobes(void)
--- a/arch/x86/kernel/vmlinux.lds.S
+++ b/arch/x86/kernel/vmlinux.lds.S
@@ -118,9 +118,11 @@ SECTIONS
#ifdef CONFIG_X86_64
. = ALIGN(PAGE_SIZE);
+ VMLINUX_SYMBOL(__entry_trampoline_start) = .;
_entry_trampoline = .;
*(.entry_trampoline)
. = ALIGN(PAGE_SIZE);
+ VMLINUX_SYMBOL(__entry_trampoline_end) = .;
ASSERT(. - _entry_trampoline == PAGE_SIZE, "entry trampoline is too big");
#endif
Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from francis.deslauriers@xxxxxxxxxxxx are
queue-4.15/x86-kprobes-fix-kernel-crash-when-probing-.entry_trampoline-code.patch