Re: [PATCH -tip v2 0/7] kprobes: Fix %p in kprobes

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On Thu, Apr 26, 2018 at 05:08:00PM +0900, Masami Hiramatsu wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> This 2nd version of the series which fixes %p uses in kprobes.
> Some by replacing with %pS, some by replacing with %px but
> masking with kallsyms_show_value().
> 
> V1 series is here:
>  https://lkml.org/lkml/2018/1/25/1
> 
> I've read the thread about %pK and if I understand correctly
> we shouldn't print kernel addresses. However, kprobes debugfs
> interface can not stop to show the actual probe address because
> it should be compared with addresses in kallsyms for debugging.
> So, it depends on that kallsyms_show_value() allows to show
> address to user, because if it returns true, anyway that user
> can dump /proc/kallsyms.
> 
> Other error messages are replaced it with %pS, and one critical
> function uses %px which is called right before BUG().
> 
> Also, I tried to fix this issue on each arch port. I searched
> it by
> 
>  # find arch/* | grep -e 'kprobe.*c' | xargs grep -w %p
> 
> And fixed all %p uses in those files.
> 
> Changes in this version;
>  - [1/7] is newly added.
>  - patches for MN10300(deleted) and s390(merged) are removed.
> 
> Thank you,
> 
> ---
> 
> Masami Hiramatsu (7):
>       kprobes: Make blacklist root user read only
>       kprobes: Show blacklist addresses as same as kallsyms does
>       kprobes: Show address of kprobes if kallsyms does
>       kprobes: Replace %p with other pointer types
>       kprobes/x86: Fix %p uses in error messages
>       kprobes/arm: Fix %p uses in error messages
>       kprobes/arm64: Fix %p uses in error messages
> 
> 
>  arch/arm/probes/kprobes/core.c      |   10 ++++----
>  arch/arm/probes/kprobes/test-core.c |    1 -
>  arch/arm64/kernel/probes/kprobes.c  |    4 ++-
>  arch/x86/kernel/kprobes/core.c      |   12 +++------
>  kernel/kprobes.c                    |   46 ++++++++++++++++++++++-------------
>  5 files changed, 40 insertions(+), 33 deletions(-)
> 
> --
> Masami Hiramatsu (Linaro) <mhiramat@xxxxxxxxxx>

<formletter>

This is not the correct way to submit patches for inclusion in the
stable kernel tree.  Please read:
    https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/process/stable-kernel-rules.html
for how to do this properly.

</formletter>



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