linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] tracepoint: Allow trace events in modules with TAINT

lists.openwall.net		lists / announce owl-users owl-dev john-users john-dev passwdqc-users yescrypt popa3d-users / oss-security kernel-hardening musl sabotage tlsify passwords / crypt-dev xvendor / Bugtraq Full-Disclosure linux-kernel linux-netdev linux-ext4 linux-hardening linux-cve-announce PHC
Open Source and information security mailing list archives

Hash Suite: Windows password security audit tool. GUI, reports in PDF.

[<prev] [next>] [<thread-prev] [thread-next>] [day] [month] [year] [list]

Date:   Fri, 26 Aug 2022 16:36:42 -0700
From:   Alison Schofield <alison.schofield@...el.com>
To:     Dave Jiang <dave.jiang@...el.com>
Cc:     Steven Rostedt <rostedt@...dmis.org>, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
        linux-cxl@...r.kernel.org, Ira Weiny <ira.weiny@...el.com>,
        Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@...el.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] tracepoint: Allow trace events in modules with TAINT_TEST

On Fri, Aug 26, 2022 at 03:48:42PM -0700, Dave Jiang wrote:
> 
> On 8/26/2022 3:35 PM, alison.schofield@...el.com wrote:
> > From: Alison Schofield <alison.schofield@...el.com>
> > 
> > Commit 2852ca7fba9f ("panic: Taint kernel if tests are run")
> > introduced a new taint type, TAINT_TEST, to signal that an
> > in-kernel test has been run.
> 
> has been loaded?
> 

I took that explanation directly from the mentioned commit, where
it seems that 'run' was the intended word when referring to KUnit 
tests. Reviewer feedback led the submitter to make the taint per
module to handle 'longer lasting' modules.

> > 
> > TAINT_TEST taint type defaults into a 'bad_taint' list for
> > kernel tracing and blocks the creation of trace events. This
> > causes a problem for CXL testing where loading the cxl_test
> > module makes all CXL modules out-of-tree, blocking any trace
> > events.
> > 
> > Trace events are in development for CXL at the moment and this
> > issue was found in test with v6.0-rc1.
> > 
> > Reported-by: Ira Weiny <ira.weiny@...el.com>
> > Suggested-by: Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@...el.com>
> > Signed-off-by: Alison Schofield <alison.schofield@...el.com>
> > ---
> >   kernel/tracepoint.c | 3 ++-
> >   1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
> > 
> > diff --git a/kernel/tracepoint.c b/kernel/tracepoint.c
> > index 64ea283f2f86..5f17378c9dc2 100644
> > --- a/kernel/tracepoint.c
> > +++ b/kernel/tracepoint.c
> > @@ -571,7 +571,8 @@ static void for_each_tracepoint_range(
> >   bool trace_module_has_bad_taint(struct module *mod)
> >   {
> >   	return mod->taints & ~((1 << TAINT_OOT_MODULE) | (1 << TAINT_CRAP) |
> > -			       (1 << TAINT_UNSIGNED_MODULE));
> > +			       (1 << TAINT_UNSIGNED_MODULE) |
> > +			       (1 << TAINT_TEST));
> >   }
> >   static BLOCKING_NOTIFIER_HEAD(tracepoint_notify_list);
> > 
> > base-commit: 4c612826bec1441214816827979b62f84a097e91