From: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@redhat.com>
To: mingo@elte.hu
Cc: masami.hiramatsu.pt@hitachi.com, acme@redhat.com,
fweisbec@gmail.com, hpa@zytor.com, ananth@in.ibm.com,
davem@davemloft.net, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
tglx@linutronix.de, a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl,
eric.dumazet@gmail.com, 2nddept-manager@sdl.hitachi.co.jp,
Jiri Olsa <jolsa@redhat.com>
Subject: [PATCH 2/2] kprobes: disabling optimized kprobes for entry text section
Date: Mon, 21 Feb 2011 15:25:13 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1298298313-5980-3-git-send-email-jolsa@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1298298313-5980-1-git-send-email-jolsa@redhat.com>
You can crash the kernel using kprobe tracer by running:
echo "p system_call_after_swapgs" > ./kprobe_events
echo 1 > ./events/kprobes/enable
The reason is that at the system_call_after_swapgs label, the kernel
stack is not set up. If optimized kprobes are enabled, the user space
stack is being used in this case (see optimized kprobe template) and
this might result in a crash.
There are several places like this over the entry code (entry_$BIT).
As it seems there's no any reasonable/maintainable way to disable only
those places where the stack is not ready, I switched off the whole
entry code from kprobe optimizing.
wbr,
jirka
Signed-off-by: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@redhat.com>
---
arch/x86/kernel/kprobes.c | 8 ++++++++
1 files changed, 8 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-)
diff --git a/arch/x86/kernel/kprobes.c b/arch/x86/kernel/kprobes.c
index d91c477..d03bc1e 100644
--- a/arch/x86/kernel/kprobes.c
+++ b/arch/x86/kernel/kprobes.c
@@ -1276,6 +1276,14 @@ static int __kprobes can_optimize(unsigned long paddr)
if (!kallsyms_lookup_size_offset(paddr, &size, &offset))
return 0;
+ /*
+ * Do not optimize in the entry code due to the unstable
+ * stack handling.
+ */
+ if ((paddr >= (unsigned long ) __entry_text_start) &&
+ (paddr < (unsigned long ) __entry_text_end))
+ return 0;
+
/* Check there is enough space for a relative jump. */
if (size - offset < RELATIVEJUMP_SIZE)
return 0;
--
1.7.1
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2011-02-21 14:25 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 26+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2011-02-14 15:12 [RFC,PATCH] kprobes - optimized kprobes might crash before setting kernel stack Jiri Olsa
2011-02-15 9:41 ` Masami Hiramatsu
2011-02-15 12:30 ` Jiri Olsa
2011-02-15 15:55 ` Masami Hiramatsu
2011-02-15 16:54 ` Jiri Olsa
2011-02-15 17:05 ` [PATCH] kprobes - do not allow optimized kprobes in entry code Jiri Olsa
2011-02-16 3:36 ` Masami Hiramatsu
2011-02-17 15:11 ` Ingo Molnar
2011-02-17 15:20 ` Jiri Olsa
2011-02-18 16:26 ` Jiri Olsa
2011-02-19 14:14 ` Masami Hiramatsu
2011-02-20 12:59 ` Ingo Molnar
2011-02-21 11:54 ` Jiri Olsa
2011-02-21 14:25 ` [PATCH 0/2] x86: separating entry text section + kprobes fix Jiri Olsa
2011-02-21 14:25 ` [PATCH 1/2] x86: separating entry text section Jiri Olsa
2011-02-22 3:22 ` Masami Hiramatsu
2011-02-22 8:09 ` Ingo Molnar
2011-02-22 12:52 ` Jiri Olsa
2011-03-07 10:44 ` Jiri Olsa
2011-03-07 15:29 ` Ingo Molnar
2011-03-07 18:10 ` Jiri Olsa
2011-03-08 16:15 ` Ingo Molnar
2011-03-08 20:15 ` [tip:perf/core] x86: Separate out " tip-bot for Jiri Olsa
2011-02-21 14:25 ` Jiri Olsa [this message]
2011-02-22 3:22 ` [PATCH 2/2] kprobes: disabling optimized kprobes for " Masami Hiramatsu
2011-03-08 20:16 ` [tip:perf/core] kprobes: Disabling " tip-bot for Jiri Olsa
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