Re: [PATCH v2 12/39] x86/ibt,ftrace: Search for __fentry__ location

From: Peter Zijlstra
Date: Thu Mar 03 2022 - 08:05:23 EST


On Thu, Mar 03, 2022 at 03:15:14PM +0530, Naveen N. Rao wrote:

> > diff --git a/arch/x86/kernel/kprobes/core.c b/arch/x86/kernel/kprobes/core.c
> > index 7f0ce42f8ff9..4c13406e0bc4 100644
> > --- a/arch/x86/kernel/kprobes/core.c
> > +++ b/arch/x86/kernel/kprobes/core.c
> > @@ -198,13 +198,14 @@ __recover_probed_insn(kprobe_opcode_t *buf, unsigned long addr)
> >
> > kp = get_kprobe((void *)addr);
> > faddr = ftrace_location(addr);
> > +
> > /*
> > - * Addresses inside the ftrace location are refused by
> > - * arch_check_ftrace_location(). Something went terribly wrong
> > - * if such an address is checked here.
> > + * In case addr maps to sym+0 ftrace_location() might return something
> > + * other than faddr. In that case consider it the same as !faddr.
> > */
> > - if (WARN_ON(faddr && faddr != addr))
> > - return 0UL;
> > + if (faddr && faddr != addr)
> > + faddr = 0;
> > +
> > /*
> > * Use the current code if it is not modified by Kprobe
> > * and it cannot be modified by ftrace.
>
> I hit this issue yesterday in kprobe generic code in
> check_ftrace_location().

What exactly where you running to trigger this? (so that I can extend my
test coverage etc..)

> In both these scenarios, we just want to check if a
> particular instruction is reserved by ftrace. ftrace_location_range()
> should still work for that purpose, so that may be the easier fix:
>
> diff --git a/kernel/kprobes.c b/kernel/kprobes.c
> index 066fa644e9dfa3..ee3cd035403ca2 100644
> --- a/kernel/kprobes.c
> +++ b/kernel/kprobes.c
> @@ -1596,7 +1596,7 @@ static int check_ftrace_location(struct kprobe *p)
> {
> unsigned long ftrace_addr;
>
> - ftrace_addr = ftrace_location((unsigned long)p->addr);
> + ftrace_addr = ftrace_location_range((unsigned long)p->addr, (unsigned long)p->addr);

Yes, although perhaps a new helper. I'll go ponder during lunch.

PS. I posted v3 but forgot to Cc you:

https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20220303112321.422525803@xxxxxxxxxxxxx

I think the above hunk ended up in the kprobe patch, but on second
thought I should've put it in the ftrace one. I'll go ammend and add
this other site you found.