[PATCH v8 2/7] powerpc/kprobes: Mark newly allocated probes as RO

Russell Currey ruscur at russell.cc
Thu Apr 2 19:40:47 AEDT 2020


With CONFIG_STRICT_KERNEL_RWX=y and CONFIG_KPROBES=y, there will be one
W+X page at boot by default.  This can be tested with
CONFIG_PPC_PTDUMP=y and CONFIG_PPC_DEBUG_WX=y set, and checking the
kernel log during boot.

powerpc doesn't implement its own alloc() for kprobes like other
architectures do, but we couldn't immediately mark RO anyway since we do
a memcpy to the page we allocate later.  After that, nothing should be
allowed to modify the page, and write permissions are removed well
before the kprobe is armed.

The memcpy() would fail if >1 probes were allocated, so use
patch_instruction() instead which is safe for RO.

Reviewed-by: Daniel Axtens <dja at axtens.net>
Signed-off-by: Russell Currey <ruscur at russell.cc>
Signed-off-by: Christophe Leroy <christophe.leroy at c-s.fr>
---
 arch/powerpc/kernel/kprobes.c | 17 +++++++++++++----
 1 file changed, 13 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)

diff --git a/arch/powerpc/kernel/kprobes.c b/arch/powerpc/kernel/kprobes.c
index 81efb605113e..fa4502b4de35 100644
--- a/arch/powerpc/kernel/kprobes.c
+++ b/arch/powerpc/kernel/kprobes.c
@@ -24,6 +24,8 @@
 #include <asm/sstep.h>
 #include <asm/sections.h>
 #include <linux/uaccess.h>
+#include <linux/set_memory.h>
+#include <linux/vmalloc.h>
 
 DEFINE_PER_CPU(struct kprobe *, current_kprobe) = NULL;
 DEFINE_PER_CPU(struct kprobe_ctlblk, kprobe_ctlblk);
@@ -102,6 +104,16 @@ kprobe_opcode_t *kprobe_lookup_name(const char *name, unsigned int offset)
 	return addr;
 }
 
+void *alloc_insn_page(void)
+{
+	void *page = vmalloc_exec(PAGE_SIZE);
+
+	if (page)
+		set_memory_ro((unsigned long)page, 1);
+
+	return page;
+}
+
 int arch_prepare_kprobe(struct kprobe *p)
 {
 	int ret = 0;
@@ -124,11 +136,8 @@ int arch_prepare_kprobe(struct kprobe *p)
 	}
 
 	if (!ret) {
-		memcpy(p->ainsn.insn, p->addr,
-				MAX_INSN_SIZE * sizeof(kprobe_opcode_t));
+		patch_instruction(p->ainsn.insn, *p->addr);
 		p->opcode = *p->addr;
-		flush_icache_range((unsigned long)p->ainsn.insn,
-			(unsigned long)p->ainsn.insn + sizeof(kprobe_opcode_t));
 	}
 
 	p->ainsn.boostable = 0;
-- 
2.26.0



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