linux-kernel - [PATCH] tracing: Allow raw_syscall tracepoints to work from boot

lists.openwall.net		lists / announce owl-users owl-dev john-users john-dev passwdqc-users yescrypt popa3d-users / oss-security kernel-hardening musl sabotage tlsify passwords / crypt-dev xvendor / Bugtraq Full-Disclosure linux-kernel linux-netdev linux-ext4 linux-hardening linux-cve-announce PHC
Open Source and information security mailing list archives

Hash Suite: Windows password security audit tool. GUI, reports in PDF.

[<prev] [next>] [thread-next>] [day] [month] [year] [list]

Date:	Wed, 14 Jan 2015 09:35:17 +1100
From:	Michael Ellerman <mpe@...erman.id.au>
To:	rostedt@...dmis.org
Cc:	<linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>, mingo@...hat.com,
	paulmck@...ux.vnet.ibm.com, Andrew Morton <akpm@...l.org>,
	tglx@...utronix.de, mathieu.desnoyers@...icios.com,
	xiakaixu@...wei.com
Subject: [PATCH] tracing: Allow raw_syscall tracepoints to work from boot

In commit 5f893b2639b2 "tracing: Move enabling tracepoints to just after
rcu_init()", tracing was enabled earlier in boot.

This broke tracing of the raw_syscall tracepoints from boot using the
trace_event kernel parameter.

When the registration function for the raw_syscall tracepoints runs, it
iterates over all tasks setting TIF_SYSCALL_TRACEPOINT. However now that
this happens earlier in boot, the loop has no effect because there are
no tasks in existence other than init_task, which is skipped by the
for_each_process_thread() macro.

We can fix it by explicitly setting TIF_SYSCALL_TRACEPOINT for the
init_task. That way when pid 1 is cloned from init_task it will inherit
TIF_SYSCALL_TRACEPOINT.

Fixes: 5f893b2639b2 ("tracing: Move enabling tracepoints to just after rcu_init()")
Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman <mpe@...erman.id.au>
---
 kernel/tracepoint.c | 6 ++++++
 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+)

It feels a bit naughty to be whacking init_task like this, but it also
seems like the right fix?

Should we also clear it in the unregfunc? I can't see how that would
ever be needed in practice?

diff --git a/kernel/tracepoint.c b/kernel/tracepoint.c
index 3490407dc7b7..43a03e22c16c 100644
--- a/kernel/tracepoint.c
+++ b/kernel/tracepoint.c
@@ -496,6 +496,12 @@ void syscall_regfunc(void)

 	if (!sys_tracepoint_refcount) {
 		read_lock(&tasklist_lock);
+		/*
+		 * If we run very early in boot then we need to hit init_task
+		 * directly so that pid 1 will inherit the TIF flag.
+		 */
+		set_tsk_thread_flag(&init_task, TIF_SYSCALL_TRACEPOINT);
+
 		for_each_process_thread(p, t) {
 			set_tsk_thread_flag(t, TIF_SYSCALL_TRACEPOINT);
 		}
-- 
2.1.0

--
To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in
the body of a message to majordomo@...r.kernel.org
More majordomo info at  http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
Please read the FAQ at  http://www.tux.org/lkml/