linux-kernel - [RFC PATCH 1/2] kprobes: Prohibit probing on CFI preamble symbol

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Date:   Mon, 10 Jul 2023 21:14:24 +0900
From:   "Masami Hiramatsu (Google)" <mhiramat@...nel.org>
To:     Peter Zijlstra <peterz@...radead.org>
Cc:     Petr Pavlu <petr.pavlu@...e.com>, tglx@...utronix.de,
        mingo@...hat.com, bp@...en8.de, dave.hansen@...ux.intel.com,
        hpa@...or.com, samitolvanen@...gle.com, x86@...nel.org,
        linux-trace-kernel@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
        Masami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@...nel.org>
Subject: [RFC PATCH 1/2] kprobes: Prohibit probing on CFI preamble symbol

From: Masami Hiramatsu (Google) <mhiramat@...nel.org>

Do not allow to probe on "__cfi_" started symbol, because it includes
a typeid value in the code for CFI. Probing it will break the typeid
checking.

Signed-off-by: Masami Hiramatsu (Google) <mhiramat@...nel.org>
---
 kernel/kprobes.c |   17 ++++++++++++++++-
 1 file changed, 16 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/kernel/kprobes.c b/kernel/kprobes.c
index 00e177de91cc..ce2e460c1f79 100644
--- a/kernel/kprobes.c
+++ b/kernel/kprobes.c
@@ -1545,6 +1545,20 @@ static int check_ftrace_location(struct kprobe *p)
 	return 0;
 }
 
+#ifdef CONFIG_CFI_CLANG
+static bool is_cfi_preamble_symbol(unsigned long addr)
+{
+	char symbuf[KSYM_NAME_LEN];
+
+	if (lookup_symbol_name(addr, symbuf))
+		return false;
+
+	return str_has_prefix("__cfi_", symbuf);
+}
+#else
+#define is_cfi_preamble_symbol(addr)	(0)
+#endif
+
 static int check_kprobe_address_safe(struct kprobe *p,
 				     struct module **probed_mod)
 {
@@ -1563,7 +1577,8 @@ static int check_kprobe_address_safe(struct kprobe *p,
 	    within_kprobe_blacklist((unsigned long) p->addr) ||
 	    jump_label_text_reserved(p->addr, p->addr) ||
 	    static_call_text_reserved(p->addr, p->addr) ||
-	    find_bug((unsigned long)p->addr)) {
+	    find_bug((unsigned long)p->addr) ||
+	    is_cfi_preamble_symbol((unsigned long)p->addr)) {
 		ret = -EINVAL;
 		goto out;
 	}