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Date:   Thu, 20 Aug 2020 14:09:15 -0700
From:   Kees Cook <keescook@...omium.org>
To:     Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>
Cc:     Kyle Huey <me@...ehuey.com>,
        Robert O'Callahan <rocallahan@...il.com>,
        LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
        "maintainer:X86 ARCHITECTURE (32-BIT AND 64-BIT)" <x86@...nel.org>,
        linux-arch@...r.kernel.org, Will Deacon <will@...nel.org>,
        Arnd Bergmann <arnd@...db.de>,
        Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@....com>,
        Keno Fischer <keno@...iacomputing.com>,
        Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@...hat.com>,
        kvm list <kvm@...r.kernel.org>,
        Gabriel Krisman Bertazi <krisman@...labora.com>,
        Sean Christopherson <sean.j.christopherson@...el.com>
Subject: Re: [REGRESSION] x86/entry: Tracer no longer has opportunity to
 change the syscall number at entry via orig_ax

On Wed, Aug 19, 2020 at 09:44:39PM +0200, Thomas Gleixner wrote:
> On Wed, Aug 19 2020 at 10:14, Kyle Huey wrote:
> > tl;dr: after 27d6b4d14f5c3ab21c4aef87dd04055a2d7adf14 ptracer
> > modifications to orig_ax in a syscall entry trace stop are not honored
> > and this breaks our code.
> 
> My fault and I have no idead why none of the silly test cases
> noticed. Fix below.

Hmm, which were you trying? Looking just now, I see that the seccomp
selftests were failing for all their syscall-changing tests.

Regardless, I can confirm both the failure and the fix.

Reported-by: Kyle Huey <me@...ehuey.com>
Tested-by: Kees Cook <keescook@...omium.org>
Acked-by: Kees Cook <keescook@...omium.org>


kernelci.org is *so* close to having the kernel selftests actually
running with their builds. :)

https://github.com/kernelci/kernelci-core/issues/331

-Kees

> 
> Thanks,
> 
>         tglx
> ---
> diff --git a/kernel/entry/common.c b/kernel/entry/common.c
> index 9852e0d62d95..fcae019158ca 100644
> --- a/kernel/entry/common.c
> +++ b/kernel/entry/common.c
> @@ -65,7 +65,8 @@ static long syscall_trace_enter(struct pt_regs *regs, long syscall,
>  
>  	syscall_enter_audit(regs, syscall);
>  
> -	return ret ? : syscall;
> +	/* The above might have changed the syscall number */
> +	return ret ? : syscall_get_nr(current, regs);
>  }
>  
>  noinstr long syscall_enter_from_user_mode(struct pt_regs *regs, long syscall)

-- 
Kees Cook