powerpc: Don't print kernel instructions in show_user_instructions()

Michael Ellerman patch-notifications at ellerman.id.au
Sat Oct 6 22:14:15 AEST 2018


On Fri, 2018-10-05 at 13:21:23 UTC, Michael Ellerman wrote:
> Recently we implemented show_user_instructions() which dumps the code
> around the NIP when a user space process dies with an unhandled
> signal. This was modelled on the x86 code, and we even went so far as
> to implement the exact same bug, namely that if the user process
> crashed with its NIP pointing into the kernel we will dump kernel text
> to dmesg. eg:
> 
>   bad-bctr[2996]: segfault (11) at c000000000010000 nip c000000000010000 lr 12d0b0894 code 1
>   bad-bctr[2996]: code: fbe10068 7cbe2b78 7c7f1b78 fb610048 38a10028 38810020 fb810050 7f8802a6
>   bad-bctr[2996]: code: 3860001c f8010080 48242371 60000000 <7c7b1b79> 4082002c e8010080 eb610048
> 
> This was discovered on x86 by Jann Horn and fixed in commit
> 342db04ae712 ("x86/dumpstack: Don't dump kernel memory based on usermode RIP").
> 
> Fix it by checking the adjusted NIP value (pc) and number of
> instructions against USER_DS, and bail if we fail the check, eg:
> 
>   bad-bctr[2969]: segfault (11) at c000000000010000 nip c000000000010000 lr 107930894 code 1
>   bad-bctr[2969]: Bad NIP, not dumping instructions.
> 
> Fixes: 88b0fe175735 ("powerpc: Add show_user_instructions()")
> Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman <mpe at ellerman.id.au>
> Reviewed-by: Christophe Leroy <christophe.leroy at c-s.fr>
> Reviewed-by: Murilo Opsfelder Araujo <muriloo at linux.ibm.com>

Applied to powerpc fixes.

https://git.kernel.org/powerpc/c/a932ed3b718147c6537da290b7a91e

cheers


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