[PATCH 10/12] powerpc/entry32: Blacklist exception entry points for kprobe.

Christophe Leroy christophe.leroy at c-s.fr
Tue Mar 31 16:51:35 AEDT 2020



Le 30/03/2020 à 20:33, Christophe Leroy a écrit :
> 
> 
> Le 30/03/2020 à 19:08, Naveen N. Rao a écrit :
>> Christophe Leroy wrote:
>>> kprobe does not handle events happening in real mode.
>>>
>>> As exception entry points are running with MMU disabled,
>>> blacklist them.
>>>
>>> Signed-off-by: Christophe Leroy <christophe.leroy at c-s.fr>
>>> ---
>>>  arch/powerpc/kernel/entry_32.S | 7 +++++++
>>>  1 file changed, 7 insertions(+)
>>>
>>> diff --git a/arch/powerpc/kernel/entry_32.S 
>>> b/arch/powerpc/kernel/entry_32.S
>>> index 94f78c03cb79..9a1a45d6038a 100644
>>> --- a/arch/powerpc/kernel/entry_32.S
>>> +++ b/arch/powerpc/kernel/entry_32.S
>>> @@ -51,6 +51,7 @@ mcheck_transfer_to_handler:
>>>      mfspr    r0,SPRN_DSRR1
>>>      stw    r0,_DSRR1(r11)
>>>      /* fall through */
>>> +_ASM_NOKPROBE_SYMBOL(mcheck_transfer_to_handler)
>>>
>>>      .globl    debug_transfer_to_handler
>>>  debug_transfer_to_handler:
>>> @@ -59,6 +60,7 @@ debug_transfer_to_handler:
>>>      mfspr    r0,SPRN_CSRR1
>>>      stw    r0,_CSRR1(r11)
>>>      /* fall through */
>>> +_ASM_NOKPROBE_SYMBOL(debug_transfer_to_handler)
>>>
>>>      .globl    crit_transfer_to_handler
>>>  crit_transfer_to_handler:
>>> @@ -94,6 +96,7 @@ crit_transfer_to_handler:
>>>      rlwinm    r0,r1,0,0,(31 - THREAD_SHIFT)
>>>      stw    r0,KSP_LIMIT(r8)
>>>      /* fall through */
>>> +_ASM_NOKPROBE_SYMBOL(crit_transfer_to_handler)
>>>  #endif
>>>
>>>  #ifdef CONFIG_40x
>>> @@ -115,6 +118,7 @@ crit_transfer_to_handler:
>>>      rlwinm    r0,r1,0,0,(31 - THREAD_SHIFT)
>>>      stw    r0,KSP_LIMIT(r8)
>>>      /* fall through */
>>> +_ASM_NOKPROBE_SYMBOL(crit_transfer_to_handler)
>>>  #endif
>>>
>>>  /*
>>> @@ -127,6 +131,7 @@ crit_transfer_to_handler:
>>>      .globl    transfer_to_handler_full
>>>  transfer_to_handler_full:
>>>      SAVE_NVGPRS(r11)
>>> +_ASM_NOKPROBE_SYMBOL(transfer_to_handler_full)
>>>      /* fall through */
>>>
>>>      .globl    transfer_to_handler
>>> @@ -286,6 +291,8 @@ reenable_mmu:
>>>      lwz    r2, GPR2(r11)
>>>      b    fast_exception_return
>>>  #endif
>>> +_ASM_NOKPROBE_SYMBOL(transfer_to_handler)
>>> +_ASM_NOKPROBE_SYMBOL(transfer_to_handler_cont)
>>
>> These are added after 'reenable_mmu', which is itself not blacklisted. 
>> Is that intentional?
> 
> Yes I put it as the complete end of the entry part, ie just before 
> stack_ovf which is a function by itself.
> 
> Note that reenable_mmu is inside an #ifdef CONFIG_TRACE_IRQFLAGS.
> 
> I'm not completely sure where to put the _ASM_NOKPROBE_SYMBOL()s, that's 
> the reason why I put it close to the symbol itself in my first series.
> 
> Could you have a look at the code and tell me what looks the most 
> appropriate as a location to you ?
> 
> https://elixir.bootlin.com/linux/v5.6/source/arch/powerpc/kernel/entry_32.S#L230 

Ok, thinking about it once more, I guess we have a problem as everything 
after that reenable_mmu will be visible.

So I'll respin

Christophe


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