linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v2 15/39] x86/ibt,kprobes: Fix more +0 assumptions

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Date:   Tue, 1 Mar 2022 20:12:45 +0100
From:   Peter Zijlstra <peterz@...radead.org>
To:     "Naveen N. Rao" <naveen.n.rao@...ux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc:     Masami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@...nel.org>,
        alexei.starovoitov@...il.com, alyssa.milburn@...el.com,
        andrew.cooper3@...rix.com, hjl.tools@...il.com,
        joao@...rdrivepizza.com, jpoimboe@...hat.com,
        keescook@...omium.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
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        rostedt@...dmis.org, samitolvanen@...gle.com, x86@...nel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 15/39] x86/ibt,kprobes: Fix more +0 assumptions

On Tue, Mar 01, 2022 at 10:49:09PM +0530, Naveen N. Rao wrote:
> Peter Zijlstra wrote:
> > On Tue, Mar 01, 2022 at 11:49:05AM +0900, Masami Hiramatsu wrote:
> > 
> > > - the 'offset' is NOT limited under the symbol size.
> > >   (e.g. symbol_name = "_text" and @offset points the offset of target symbol from _text)
> > > 
> > > This means we need to call kallsyms_lookup_size_offset() in this case too.
> > 
> > I'm feeling we should error out in that case. Using sym+offset beyond
> > the limits of sym is just daft.
> > 
> > But if you really want/need to retain that, then yes, we need that
> > else branch unconditionally :/
> 
> I think we will need this. perf always specifies an offset from _text.

The _text section symbol should have an adequate size, no?

> Also, I just noticed:

> > +		if (!kallsyms_lookup_size_offset((unsigned long)addr + offset,
> > +						 NULL, &offset))
> > +			return ERR_PTR(-ENOENT);
> > +		addr = (kprobe_opcode_t *)((unsigned long)addr - offset);
> >  	}
> 
> This looks wrong. I think you need to retain offset to calculate the proper
> function entry address so that you can do:
> 	addr = (kprobe_opcode_t *)((unsigned long)(addr + offset) - func_offset);
> 	offset = func_offset;


Right you are, it needs to be:

	addr += offset;
	kallsyms_lookup_size_offset(addr, &size, &offset);
	addr -= offset;

with all the extra unreadable casts on.