[PATCH v5 1/6] arm64: kprobe: add checks for ARMv8.3-PAuth combined instructions

Amit Kachhap amit.kachhap at arm.com
Fri Sep 4 02:15:12 EDT 2020


Hi,

On 9/2/20 9:09 PM, Dave Martin wrote:
> On Tue, Aug 18, 2020 at 12:41:06PM +0530, Amit Daniel Kachhap wrote:
>> Currently the ARMv8.3-PAuth combined branch instructions (braa, retaa
>> etc.) are not simulated. However the uprobe of such instructions leads
>> to kernel warnings in a loop as they are not explicitly checked.
>>
>> This is fixed by adding definitions of all such instructions and
>> rejecting their probes.
> 
> For my understanding, this patch addresses that fact that uprobes
> expects the pc to be at xol_addr + 4 after a stepped instruction, except
> for branch instructions that it explicitly knows about?
> 
> If so, this indeed makes sense as a fix to the existing code.

ok
> 
> 
> LDRAA/LDRAB are not affected by this, right?
> 
> I'm wondering what happens if these generate an FPAC exception rather
> than the data abort that would be expected in v8.3.  I think the ptrauth
> enhancements allow this, but don't require it.

LDRAA/LDRAB can be simulated by uprobe. As per the Arm Arm(C6.2.134) for 
LDRAA/LDRBB,
"If the authentication fails, a Translation fault is generated"

This is similar to ldr behaviour so did't do anything for those 
instructions. Although, I should explicitly mention it.

> 
> If uprobes can't cope with SIGILLs in xol instructions then we probably
> have bigger problems.
> 
> I _think_ the logic in handle_singlestep(), uprobe_deny_signal(),
> arch_uprobe_xol_was_trapped() etc. does handle this scenario, but I
> confess I don't fully understand all the details of it.

I verified with a SIGILL generating xol instruction and it behaved 
properly with a SIGILL signal so probably it is fine.

> 
> Modulo that:
> 
> Reviewed-by: Dave Martin <Dave.Martin at arm.com>

Thanks,
Amit
> 
> Cheers
> ---Dave
> 
> 
>>
>> Warning log:
>>   WARNING: CPU: 5 PID: 249 at arch/arm64/kernel/probes/uprobes.c:182 uprobe_single_step_handler+0x34/0x50
>>   Modules linked in:
>>   CPU: 5 PID: 249 Comm: func Tainted: G        W         5.8.0-rc4-00005-ge658591d66d1-dirty #160
>>   Hardware name: Foundation-v8A (DT)
>>   pstate: 204003c9 (nzCv DAIF +PAN -UAO BTYPE=--)
>>   pc : uprobe_single_step_handler+0x34/0x50
>>   lr : single_step_handler+0x70/0xf8
>>   sp : ffff800012afbe30
>>   x29: ffff800012afbe30 x28: ffff000879f00ec0
>>   x27: 0000000000000000 x26: 0000000000000000
>>   x25: 0000000000000000 x24: 0000000000000000
>>   x23: 0000000060001000 x22: 00000000cb000022
>>   x21: ffff800011fc5a68 x20: ffff800012afbec0
>>   x19: ffff800011fc86c0 x18: 0000000000000000
>>   x17: 0000000000000000 x16: 0000000000000000
>>   x15: 0000000000000000 x14: 0000000000000000
>>   x13: 0000000000000000 x12: 0000000000000000
>>   x11: 0000000000000000 x10: 0000000000000000
>>   x9 : ffff800010085d50 x8 : 0000000000000000
>>   x7 : 0000000000000000 x6 : ffff800011fba9c0
>>   x5 : ffff800011fba000 x4 : ffff800012283070
>>   x3 : ffff8000100a78e0 x2 : 00000000004005f0
>>   x1 : 0000fffffffff008 x0 : ffff800012afbec0
>>   Call trace:
>>    uprobe_single_step_handler+0x34/0x50
>>    single_step_handler+0x70/0xf8
>>    do_debug_exception+0xb8/0x130
>>    el0_sync_handler+0x7c/0x188
>>    el0_sync+0x158/0x180
>>
>> Fixes: 74afda4016a7 ("arm64: compile the kernel with ptrauth return address signing")
>> Fixes: 04ca3204fa09 ("arm64: enable pointer authentication")
>> Signed-off-by: Amit Daniel Kachhap <amit.kachhap at arm.com>
>> ---
>> Changes since v4:
>> * New patch.
>>
>>   arch/arm64/include/asm/insn.h          | 12 ++++++++++++
>>   arch/arm64/kernel/insn.c               | 14 ++++++++++++--
>>   arch/arm64/kernel/probes/decode-insn.c |  4 +++-
>>   3 files changed, 27 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)
>>
>> diff --git a/arch/arm64/include/asm/insn.h b/arch/arm64/include/asm/insn.h
>> index 0bc46149e491..324234068fee 100644
>> --- a/arch/arm64/include/asm/insn.h
>> +++ b/arch/arm64/include/asm/insn.h
>> @@ -359,9 +359,21 @@ __AARCH64_INSN_FUNCS(brk,	0xFFE0001F, 0xD4200000)
>>   __AARCH64_INSN_FUNCS(exception,	0xFF000000, 0xD4000000)
>>   __AARCH64_INSN_FUNCS(hint,	0xFFFFF01F, 0xD503201F)
>>   __AARCH64_INSN_FUNCS(br,	0xFFFFFC1F, 0xD61F0000)
>> +__AARCH64_INSN_FUNCS(braaz,	0xFFFFFC1F, 0xD61F081F)
>> +__AARCH64_INSN_FUNCS(brabz,	0xFFFFFC1F, 0xD61F0C1F)
>> +__AARCH64_INSN_FUNCS(braa,	0xFFFFFC00, 0xD71F0800)
>> +__AARCH64_INSN_FUNCS(brab,	0xFFFFFC00, 0xD71F0C00)
>>   __AARCH64_INSN_FUNCS(blr,	0xFFFFFC1F, 0xD63F0000)
>> +__AARCH64_INSN_FUNCS(blraaz,	0xFFFFFC1F, 0xD63F081F)
>> +__AARCH64_INSN_FUNCS(blrabz,	0xFFFFFC1F, 0xD63F0C1F)
>> +__AARCH64_INSN_FUNCS(blraa,	0xFFFFFC00, 0xD73F0800)
>> +__AARCH64_INSN_FUNCS(blrab,	0xFFFFFC00, 0xD73F0C00)
>>   __AARCH64_INSN_FUNCS(ret,	0xFFFFFC1F, 0xD65F0000)
>> +__AARCH64_INSN_FUNCS(retaa,	0xFFFFFFFF, 0xD65F0BFF)
>> +__AARCH64_INSN_FUNCS(retab,	0xFFFFFFFF, 0xD65F0FFF)
>>   __AARCH64_INSN_FUNCS(eret,	0xFFFFFFFF, 0xD69F03E0)
>> +__AARCH64_INSN_FUNCS(eretaa,	0xFFFFFFFF, 0xD69F0BFF)
>> +__AARCH64_INSN_FUNCS(eretab,	0xFFFFFFFF, 0xD69F0FFF)
>>   __AARCH64_INSN_FUNCS(mrs,	0xFFF00000, 0xD5300000)
>>   __AARCH64_INSN_FUNCS(msr_imm,	0xFFF8F01F, 0xD500401F)
>>   __AARCH64_INSN_FUNCS(msr_reg,	0xFFF00000, 0xD5100000)
>> diff --git a/arch/arm64/kernel/insn.c b/arch/arm64/kernel/insn.c
>> index a107375005bc..27d5a52d5058 100644
>> --- a/arch/arm64/kernel/insn.c
>> +++ b/arch/arm64/kernel/insn.c
>> @@ -176,7 +176,7 @@ bool __kprobes aarch64_insn_uses_literal(u32 insn)
>>   
>>   bool __kprobes aarch64_insn_is_branch(u32 insn)
>>   {
>> -	/* b, bl, cb*, tb*, b.cond, br, blr */
>> +	/* b, bl, cb*, tb*, ret*, b.cond, br*, blr* */
>>   
>>   	return aarch64_insn_is_b(insn) ||
>>   		aarch64_insn_is_bl(insn) ||
>> @@ -185,9 +185,19 @@ bool __kprobes aarch64_insn_is_branch(u32 insn)
>>   		aarch64_insn_is_tbz(insn) ||
>>   		aarch64_insn_is_tbnz(insn) ||
>>   		aarch64_insn_is_ret(insn) ||
>> +		aarch64_insn_is_retaa(insn) ||
>> +		aarch64_insn_is_retab(insn) ||
>>   		aarch64_insn_is_br(insn) ||
>>   		aarch64_insn_is_blr(insn) ||
>> -		aarch64_insn_is_bcond(insn);
>> +		aarch64_insn_is_bcond(insn) ||
>> +		aarch64_insn_is_braaz(insn) ||
>> +		aarch64_insn_is_brabz(insn) ||
>> +		aarch64_insn_is_braa(insn) ||
>> +		aarch64_insn_is_brab(insn) ||
>> +		aarch64_insn_is_blraaz(insn) ||
>> +		aarch64_insn_is_blrabz(insn) ||
>> +		aarch64_insn_is_blraa(insn) ||
>> +		aarch64_insn_is_blrab(insn);
>>   }
>>   
>>   int __kprobes aarch64_insn_patch_text_nosync(void *addr, u32 insn)
>> diff --git a/arch/arm64/kernel/probes/decode-insn.c b/arch/arm64/kernel/probes/decode-insn.c
>> index 263d5fba4c8a..f9eb8210d6d3 100644
>> --- a/arch/arm64/kernel/probes/decode-insn.c
>> +++ b/arch/arm64/kernel/probes/decode-insn.c
>> @@ -29,7 +29,9 @@ static bool __kprobes aarch64_insn_is_steppable(u32 insn)
>>   		    aarch64_insn_is_msr_imm(insn) ||
>>   		    aarch64_insn_is_msr_reg(insn) ||
>>   		    aarch64_insn_is_exception(insn) ||
>> -		    aarch64_insn_is_eret(insn))
>> +		    aarch64_insn_is_eret(insn) ||
>> +		    aarch64_insn_is_eretaa(insn) ||
>> +		    aarch64_insn_is_eretab(insn))
>>   			return false;
>>   
>>   		/*
>> -- 
>> 2.17.1
>>
>>
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