linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v3 2/4] x86/traps: Print non-canonical address on #GP

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Date:   Wed, 20 Nov 2019 13:42:31 +0100
From:   Jann Horn <jannh@...gle.com>
To:     Borislav Petkov <bp@...en8.de>
Cc:     Ingo Molnar <mingo@...nel.org>,
        Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>,
        Ingo Molnar <mingo@...hat.com>,
        "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@...or.com>,
        "the arch/x86 maintainers" <x86@...nel.org>,
        Andrey Ryabinin <aryabinin@...tuozzo.com>,
        Alexander Potapenko <glider@...gle.com>,
        Dmitry Vyukov <dvyukov@...gle.com>,
        kasan-dev <kasan-dev@...glegroups.com>,
        kernel list <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
        Andrey Konovalov <andreyknvl@...gle.com>,
        Andy Lutomirski <luto@...nel.org>,
        Sean Christopherson <sean.j.christopherson@...el.com>,
        Andi Kleen <ak@...ux.intel.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v3 2/4] x86/traps: Print non-canonical address on #GP

On Wed, Nov 20, 2019 at 1:39 PM Borislav Petkov <bp@...en8.de> wrote:
> On Wed, Nov 20, 2019 at 01:30:58PM +0100, Ingo Molnar wrote:
> > * Jann Horn <jannh@...gle.com> wrote:
> >
> > > You mean something like this?
> > >
> > > ========================
> > > diff --git a/arch/x86/kernel/traps.c b/arch/x86/kernel/traps.c
> > > index 9b23c4bda243..16a6bdaccb51 100644
> > > --- a/arch/x86/kernel/traps.c
> > > +++ b/arch/x86/kernel/traps.c
> > > @@ -516,32 +516,36 @@ dotraplinkage void do_bounds(struct pt_regs
> > > *regs, long error_code)
> > >   * On 64-bit, if an uncaught #GP occurs while dereferencing a non-canonical
> > >   * address, return that address.
> > >   */
> > > -static unsigned long get_kernel_gp_address(struct pt_regs *regs)
> > > +static bool get_kernel_gp_address(struct pt_regs *regs, unsigned long *addr,
> > > +                                          bool *non_canonical)
> >
> > Yeah, that's pretty much the perfect end result!
>
> Why do we need the bool thing? Can't we rely on the assumption that an
> address of 0 is the error case and use that to determine whether the
> resolving succeeded or not?

True, that'd work, too. I didn't really want to special-case an
integer here - especially one that has the same value as NULL - but I
guess it's fine.