linux-kernel - [for-linus][PATCH 3/5] ftrace: Do not blindly read the ip address in ftrace

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Date:   Wed, 09 Jun 2021 20:33:47 -0400
From:   Steven Rostedt <rostedt@...dmis.org>
To:     linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Cc:     Ingo Molnar <mingo@...nel.org>,
        Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
        stable@...r.kernel.org, Mark-PK Tsai <mark-pk.tsai@...iatek.com>
Subject: [for-linus][PATCH 3/5] ftrace: Do not blindly read the ip address in ftrace_bug()

From: "Steven Rostedt (VMware)" <rostedt@...dmis.org>

It was reported that a bug on arm64 caused a bad ip address to be used for
updating into a nop in ftrace_init(), but the error path (rightfully)
returned -EINVAL and not -EFAULT, as the bug caused more than one error to
occur. But because -EINVAL was returned, the ftrace_bug() tried to report
what was at the location of the ip address, and read it directly. This
caused the machine to panic, as the ip was not pointing to a valid memory
address.

Instead, read the ip address with copy_from_kernel_nofault() to safely
access the memory, and if it faults, report that the address faulted,
otherwise report what was in that location.

Link: https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/20210607032329.28671-1-mark-pk.tsai@mediatek.com/

Cc: stable@...r.kernel.org
Fixes: 05736a427f7e1 ("ftrace: warn on failure to disable mcount callers")
Reported-by: Mark-PK Tsai <mark-pk.tsai@...iatek.com>
Tested-by: Mark-PK Tsai <mark-pk.tsai@...iatek.com>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (VMware) <rostedt@...dmis.org>
---
 kernel/trace/ftrace.c | 8 +++++++-
 1 file changed, 7 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/kernel/trace/ftrace.c b/kernel/trace/ftrace.c
index 2e8a3fde7104..72ef4dccbcc4 100644
--- a/kernel/trace/ftrace.c
+++ b/kernel/trace/ftrace.c
@@ -1967,12 +1967,18 @@ static int ftrace_hash_ipmodify_update(struct ftrace_ops *ops,
 
 static void print_ip_ins(const char *fmt, const unsigned char *p)
 {
+	char ins[MCOUNT_INSN_SIZE];
 	int i;
 
+	if (copy_from_kernel_nofault(ins, p, MCOUNT_INSN_SIZE)) {
+		printk(KERN_CONT "%s[FAULT] %px\n", fmt, p);
+		return;
+	}
+
 	printk(KERN_CONT "%s", fmt);
 
 	for (i = 0; i < MCOUNT_INSN_SIZE; i++)
-		printk(KERN_CONT "%s%02x", i ? ":" : "", p[i]);
+		printk(KERN_CONT "%s%02x", i ? ":" : "", ins[i]);
 }
 
 enum ftrace_bug_type ftrace_bug_type;
-- 
2.30.2