[PATCH 1/2] arm64: kprobes: Remove unneeded address sanity check

[David Long]

On 02/01/2018 04:34 AM, AKASHI Takahiro wrote:
> From: Masami Hiramatsu <mhiramat at kernel.org>
>
> Remove unneeded address sanity check in arch_prepare_kprobe().
> Since do_debug_exception() is already blacklisted for kprobes, no need
> to reject all __exception functions. Also, since generic kprobe
> framework already ensures the address is in kernel text, no need to
> check it is in rodata again.
>
> Signed-off-by: Masami Hiramatsu <mhiramat at kernel.org>
> Reported-by: AKASHI Takahiro <takahiro.akashi at linaro.org>
> ---
>   arch/arm64/kernel/probes/kprobes.c | 8 --------
>   1 file changed, 8 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/arch/arm64/kernel/probes/kprobes.c b/arch/arm64/kernel/probes/kprobes.c
> index d849d9804011..3c487a389252 100644
> --- a/arch/arm64/kernel/probes/kprobes.c
> +++ b/arch/arm64/kernel/probes/kprobes.c
> @@ -78,8 +78,6 @@ static void __kprobes arch_simulate_insn(struct kprobe *p, struct pt_regs *regs)
>   int __kprobes arch_prepare_kprobe(struct kprobe *p)
>   {
>   	unsigned long probe_addr = (unsigned long)p->addr;
> -	extern char __start_rodata[];
> -	extern char __end_rodata[];
>
>   	if (probe_addr & 0x3)
>   		return -EINVAL;
> @@ -87,12 +85,6 @@ int __kprobes arch_prepare_kprobe(struct kprobe *p)
>   	/* copy instruction */
>   	p->opcode = le32_to_cpu(*p->addr);
>
> -	if (in_exception_text(probe_addr))
> -		return -EINVAL;
> -	if (probe_addr >= (unsigned long) __start_rodata &&
> -	    probe_addr <= (unsigned long) __end_rodata)
> -		return -EINVAL;
> -
>   	/* decode instruction */
>   	switch (arm_kprobe_decode_insn(p->addr, &p->ainsn)) {
>   	case INSN_REJECTED:	/* insn not supported */
>

I have tested this change on v4.15 using kprobes events and I find it 
allows kprobes to be placed in exception text when they were previously 
rejected. Is there some other recent change I need to test this with for 
the previous behavior to be preserved?

-dl