linux-kernel - BUG: optimized kprobes illegal instructions in v4.19 stable kernels

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Date:   Mon, 4 Feb 2019 14:15:21 -0500 (EST)
From:   Mathieu Desnoyers <mathieu.desnoyers@...icios.com>
To:     Kees Cook <keescook@...omium.org>
Cc:     William Cohen <wcohen@...hat.com>, stable@...r.kernel.org,
        Laura Abbott <labbott@...hat.com>,
        Masami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@...nel.org>,
        Russell King <rmk+kernel@...linux.org.uk>,
        linux-kernel <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
        lttng@...iableembeddedsystems.com,
        lttng-dev <lttng-dev@...ts.lttng.org>
Subject: BUG: optimized kprobes illegal instructions in v4.19 stable kernels

Hi,

I notice this commit as a possible culprit of the illegal instructions my lttng
users are noticing on arm32 when using kprobes on a v4.19.13 Linux kernel
in a Yocto environment [1]. They were able to reproduce the issue with perf
as well.

commit e46daee53bb50bde38805f1823a182979724c229
Author: Kees Cook <keescook@...omium.org>
Date:   Tue Oct 30 22:12:56 2018 +0100

    ARM: 8806/1: kprobes: Fix false positive with FORTIFY_SOURCE

I *think* the intent there was to do

-       memcpy(code, &optprobe_template_entry,
+       memcpy(code, (unsigned long *)&optprobe_template_entry,

But if you look at the commit, the "&" seems to have been stripped away,
which happens to change the behavior significantly.

Has this change ever been runtime-tested ?

It has been backported to:
- 4.19 stable as commit 3fe0c68aea21
- 4.14 stable as commit f9e0bc710347

Thanks,

Mathieu

[1] https://bugs.lttng.org/issues/1174

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Mathieu Desnoyers
EfficiOS Inc.
http://www.efficios.com