[PATCH] arm: ensure dump_instr() checks addr_limit

Mark Rutland mark.rutland at arm.com
Thu Nov 2 09:34:52 PDT 2017


Signed-off-by: Mark Rutland <mark.rutland at arm.com>

When CONFIG_DEBUG_USER is enabled, it's possible for a user to
deliberately trigger dump_instr() with a chosen kernel address.

Let's avoid problems resulting from this by using get_user() rather than
__get_user(), ensuring that we don't erroneously access kernel memory.

So that we can use the same code to dump user instructions and kernel
instructions, the common dumping code is factored out to __dump_instr(),
with the fs manipulated appropriately in dump_instr() around calls to
this.

Signed-off-by: Mark Rutland <mark.rutland at arm.com>
Cc: Russell King <rmk+kernel at armlinux.org.uk>
Cc: stable at vger.kernel.org
---
 arch/arm/kernel/traps.c | 28 ++++++++++++++++++----------
 1 file changed, 18 insertions(+), 10 deletions(-)

diff --git a/arch/arm/kernel/traps.c b/arch/arm/kernel/traps.c
index 948c648fea00..0fcd82f01388 100644
--- a/arch/arm/kernel/traps.c
+++ b/arch/arm/kernel/traps.c
@@ -154,30 +154,26 @@ static void dump_mem(const char *lvl, const char *str, unsigned long bottom,
 	set_fs(fs);
 }
 
-static void dump_instr(const char *lvl, struct pt_regs *regs)
+static void __dump_instr(const char *lvl, struct pt_regs *regs)
 {
 	unsigned long addr = instruction_pointer(regs);
 	const int thumb = thumb_mode(regs);
 	const int width = thumb ? 4 : 8;
-	mm_segment_t fs;
 	char str[sizeof("00000000 ") * 5 + 2 + 1], *p = str;
 	int i;
 
 	/*
-	 * We need to switch to kernel mode so that we can use __get_user
-	 * to safely read from kernel space.  Note that we now dump the
-	 * code first, just in case the backtrace kills us.
+	 * Note that we now dump the code first, just in case the backtrace
+	 * kills us.
 	 */
-	fs = get_fs();
-	set_fs(KERNEL_DS);
 
 	for (i = -4; i < 1 + !!thumb; i++) {
 		unsigned int val, bad;
 
 		if (thumb)
-			bad = __get_user(val, &((u16 *)addr)[i]);
+			bad = get_user(val, &((u16 *)addr)[i]);
 		else
-			bad = __get_user(val, &((u32 *)addr)[i]);
+			bad = get_user(val, &((u32 *)addr)[i]);
 
 		if (!bad)
 			p += sprintf(p, i == 0 ? "(%0*x) " : "%0*x ",
@@ -188,8 +184,20 @@ static void dump_instr(const char *lvl, struct pt_regs *regs)
 		}
 	}
 	printk("%sCode: %s\n", lvl, str);
+}
 
-	set_fs(fs);
+static void dump_instr(const char *lvl, struct pt_regs *regs)
+{
+	mm_segment_t fs;
+
+	if (!user_mode(regs)) {
+		fs = get_fs();
+		set_fs(KERNEL_DS);
+		__dump_instr(lvl, regs);
+		set_fs(fs);
+	} else {
+		__dump_instr(lvl, regs);
+	}
 }
 
 #ifdef CONFIG_ARM_UNWIND
-- 
2.11.0




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