linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v2] x86/kprobes: Fix 1 byte conditional jump target

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Date:   Wed, 8 Feb 2023 21:01:19 +0100
From:   Peter Zijlstra <peterz@...radead.org>
To:     Nadav Amit <nadav.amit@...il.com>
Cc:     Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>,
        Ingo Molnar <mingo@...hat.com>, Borislav Petkov <bp@...en8.de>,
        Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@...ux.intel.com>, x86@...nel.org,
        linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, Nadav Amit <namit@...are.com>,
        Masami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@...nel.org>,
        Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@...el.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2] x86/kprobes: Fix 1 byte conditional jump target

On Wed, Feb 08, 2023 at 07:17:08AM +0000, Nadav Amit wrote:
> From: Nadav Amit <namit@...are.com>
> 
> Commit 3bc753c06dd0 ("kbuild: treat char as always unsigned") broke
> kprobes.  Setting a probe-point on 1 byte conditional jump can cause the
> kernel to crash, as the branch target is not sign-extended and instead
> zero-extended.
> 
> In fact, there is no need for any casting of immediate.value since sign
> extension is already done during its decoding in insn_get_immediate().
> 
> Fix by removing the casting of the 1 byte conditional jump target.
> Future patches can also remove the casting (and sign extension) in other
> cases in which immediate.value is being used.
> 
> Fixes: 3bc753c06dd0 ("kbuild: treat char as always unsigned")
> Suggested-by: Masami Hiramatsu (Google) <mhiramat@...nel.org>
> Suggested-by: Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@...el.com>
> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@...radead.org>
> Signed-off-by: Nadav Amit <namit@...are.com>

Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@...radead.org>