Re: [REGRESSION] x86/entry: Tracer no longer has opportunity to change the syscall number at entry via orig_ax

From: Kees Cook
Date: Thu Aug 20 2020 - 17:09:35 EST


On Wed, Aug 19, 2020 at 09:44:39PM +0200, Thomas Gleixner wrote:
> On Wed, Aug 19 2020 at 10:14, Kyle Huey wrote:
> > tl;dr: after 27d6b4d14f5c3ab21c4aef87dd04055a2d7adf14 ptracer
> > modifications to orig_ax in a syscall entry trace stop are not honored
> > and this breaks our code.
>
> My fault and I have no idead why none of the silly test cases
> noticed. Fix below.

Hmm, which were you trying? Looking just now, I see that the seccomp
selftests were failing for all their syscall-changing tests.

Regardless, I can confirm both the failure and the fix.

Reported-by: Kyle Huey <me@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Tested-by: Kees Cook <keescook@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Acked-by: Kees Cook <keescook@xxxxxxxxxxxx>


kernelci.org is *so* close to having the kernel selftests actually
running with their builds. :)

https://github.com/kernelci/kernelci-core/issues/331

-Kees

>
> Thanks,
>
> tglx
> ---
> diff --git a/kernel/entry/common.c b/kernel/entry/common.c
> index 9852e0d62d95..fcae019158ca 100644
> --- a/kernel/entry/common.c
> +++ b/kernel/entry/common.c
> @@ -65,7 +65,8 @@ static long syscall_trace_enter(struct pt_regs *regs, long syscall,
>
> syscall_enter_audit(regs, syscall);
>
> - return ret ? : syscall;
> + /* The above might have changed the syscall number */
> + return ret ? : syscall_get_nr(current, regs);
> }
>
> noinstr long syscall_enter_from_user_mode(struct pt_regs *regs, long syscall)

--
Kees Cook