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authorHendrik Brueckner <brueckner@linux.vnet.ibm.com>2009-08-25 14:50:27 +0200
committerFrederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>2009-08-26 21:29:48 +0200
commitcd0980fc8add25e8ab12fcf1051c0f20cbc7c0c0 (patch)
tree307fe4d60c058c016c650366db2c2761b20cfd6d /kernel
parent7515bf59f87f19b2a17972b74230d2f91756fe3c (diff)
tracing: Check invalid syscall nr while tracing syscalls
Most arch syscall_get_nr() implementations returns -1 if the syscall number is not valid. Accessing the bit field without a check might result in a kernel oops (at least I saw it on s390 for ftrace selftest). Before this change, this problem did not occur, because the invalid syscall number (-1) caused syscall_nr_to_meta() to return NULL. There are at least two scenarios where syscall_get_nr() can return -1: 1. For example, ptrace stores an invalid syscall number, and thus, tracing code resets it. (see do_syscall_trace_enter in arch/s390/kernel/ptrace.c) 2. The syscall_regfunc() (kernel/tracepoint.c) sets the TIF_SYSCALL_FTRACE (now: TIF_SYSCALL_TRACEPOINT) flag for all threads which include kernel threads. However, the ftrace selftest triggers a kernel oops when testing syscall trace points: - The kernel thread is started as ususal (do_fork()), - tracing code sets TIF_SYSCALL_FTRACE, - the ret_from_fork() function is triggered and starts ftrace_syscall_exit() with an invalid syscall number. To avoid these scenarios, I suggest to check the syscall_nr. For instance, the ftrace selftest fails for s390 (with config option CONFIG_FTRACE_SYSCALLS set) and produces the following kernel oops. Unable to handle kernel pointer dereference at virtual kernel address 2000000000 Oops: 0038 [#1] PREEMPT SMP Modules linked in: CPU: 0 Not tainted 2.6.31-rc6-next-20090819-dirty #18 Process kthreadd (pid: 818, task: 000000003ea207e8, ksp: 000000003e813eb8) Krnl PSW : 0704100180000000 00000000000ea54c (ftrace_syscall_exit+0x58/0xdc) R:0 T:1 IO:1 EX:1 Key:0 M:1 W:0 P:0 AS:0 CC:1 PM:0 EA:3 Krnl GPRS: 0000000000000000 00000000000e0000 ffffffffffffffff 20000000008c2650 0000000000000007 0000000000000000 0000000000000000 0000000000000000 0000000000000000 0000000000000000 ffffffffffffffff 000000003e813d78 000000003e813f58 0000000000505ba8 000000003e813e18 000000003e813d78 Krnl Code: 00000000000ea540: e330d0000008 ag %r3,0(%r13) 00000000000ea546: a7480007 lhi %r4,7 00000000000ea54a: 1442 nr %r4,%r2 >00000000000ea54c: e31030000090 llgc %r1,0(%r3) 00000000000ea552: 5410d008 n %r1,8(%r13) 00000000000ea556: 8a104000 sra %r1,0(%r4) 00000000000ea55a: 5410d00c n %r1,12(%r13) 00000000000ea55e: 1211 ltr %r1,%r1 Call Trace: ([<0000000000000000>] 0x0) [<000000000001fa22>] do_syscall_trace_exit+0x132/0x18c [<000000000002d0c4>] sysc_return+0x0/0x8 [<000000000001c738>] kernel_thread_starter+0x0/0xc Last Breaking-Event-Address: [<00000000000ea51e>] ftrace_syscall_exit+0x2a/0xdc Signed-off-by: Hendrik Brueckner <brueckner@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Acked-by: Heiko Carstens <heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com> Cc: Jason Baron <jbaron@redhat.com> Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Cc: Lai Jiangshan <laijs@cn.fujitsu.com> Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Mathieu Desnoyers <mathieu.desnoyers@polymtl.ca> Cc: Jiaying Zhang <jiayingz@google.com> Cc: Martin Bligh <mbligh@google.com> Cc: Li Zefan <lizf@cn.fujitsu.com> Cc: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com> Cc: Paul Mundt <lethal@linux-sh.org> LKML-Reference: <20090825125027.GE4639@cetus.boeblingen.de.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Diffstat (limited to 'kernel')
-rw-r--r--kernel/trace/trace_syscalls.c4
1 files changed, 4 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/kernel/trace/trace_syscalls.c b/kernel/trace/trace_syscalls.c
index 85291c4de40..cb7f600cb02 100644
--- a/kernel/trace/trace_syscalls.c
+++ b/kernel/trace/trace_syscalls.c
@@ -227,6 +227,8 @@ void ftrace_syscall_enter(struct pt_regs *regs, long id)
int syscall_nr;
syscall_nr = syscall_get_nr(current, regs);
+ if (syscall_nr < 0)
+ return;
if (!test_bit(syscall_nr, enabled_enter_syscalls))
return;
@@ -257,6 +259,8 @@ void ftrace_syscall_exit(struct pt_regs *regs, long ret)
int syscall_nr;
syscall_nr = syscall_get_nr(current, regs);
+ if (syscall_nr < 0)
+ return;
if (!test_bit(syscall_nr, enabled_exit_syscalls))
return;