Christophe LEROY <christophe.le...@c-s.fr> writes: > Le 05/10/2018 à 15:21, Michael Ellerman a écrit : >> Recently we implemented show_user_instructions() which dumps the code >> around the NIP when a user space process dies with an unhandled >> signal. This was modelled on the x86 code, and we even went so far as >> to implement the exact same bug, namely that if the user process >> crashed with its NIP pointing into the kernel we will dump kernel text >> to dmesg. eg: >> >> bad-bctr[2996]: segfault (11) at c000000000010000 nip c000000000010000 lr >> 12d0b0894 code 1 >> bad-bctr[2996]: code: fbe10068 7cbe2b78 7c7f1b78 fb610048 38a10028 >> 38810020 fb810050 7f8802a6 >> bad-bctr[2996]: code: 3860001c f8010080 48242371 60000000 <7c7b1b79> >> 4082002c e8010080 eb610048 >> >> This was discovered on x86 by Jann Horn and fixed in commit >> 342db04ae712 ("x86/dumpstack: Don't dump kernel memory based on usermode >> RIP"). >> >> Fix it by checking the adjusted NIP value (pc) and number of >> instructions against USER_DS, and bail if we fail the check, eg: >> >> bad-bctr[2969]: segfault (11) at c000000000010000 nip c000000000010000 lr >> 107930894 code 1 >> bad-bctr[2969]: Bad NIP, not dumping instructions. >> >> Fixes: 88b0fe175735 ("powerpc: Add show_user_instructions()") >> Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman <m...@ellerman.id.au> >> --- >> arch/powerpc/kernel/process.c | 10 ++++++++++ >> 1 file changed, 10 insertions(+) >> >> diff --git a/arch/powerpc/kernel/process.c b/arch/powerpc/kernel/process.c >> index 913c5725cdb2..bb6ac471a784 100644 >> --- a/arch/powerpc/kernel/process.c >> +++ b/arch/powerpc/kernel/process.c >> @@ -1306,6 +1306,16 @@ void show_user_instructions(struct pt_regs *regs) >> >> pc = regs->nip - (instructions_to_print * 3 / 4 * sizeof(int)); >> >> + /* >> + * Make sure the NIP points at userspace, not kernel text/data or >> + * elsewhere. >> + */ >> + if (!__access_ok(pc, instructions_to_print * sizeof(int), USER_DS)) { >> + pr_info("%s[%d]: Bad NIP, not dumping instructions.\n", >> + current->comm, current->pid); >> + return; >> + } >> + > > Is there any reason for not using access_ok() here ?
I wanted to check against USER_DS explicitly. But maybe that was over-paranoid of me. cheers