linux.git/kernel/kprobes.c, branch v6.10-rc6

kprobe/ftrace: fix build error due to bad function definition

2024-05-18T02:17:55+00:00

Commit 1a7d0890dd4a ("kprobe/ftrace: bail out if ftrace was killed")
introduced a bad K&R function definition, which we haven't accepted in a
long long time.

Gcc seems to let it slide, but clang notices with the appropriate error:

  kernel/kprobes.c:1140:24: error: a function declaration without a prototype is deprecated in all >
   1140 | void kprobe_ftrace_kill()
        |                        ^
        |                         void

but this commit was apparently never in linux-next before it was sent
upstream, so it didn't get the appropriate build test coverage.

Fixes: 1a7d0890dd4a kprobe/ftrace: bail out if ftrace was killed
Cc: Stephen Brennan 
Cc: Masami Hiramatsu (Google) 
Cc: Guo Ren 
Cc: Steven Rostedt (Google) 
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

Merge tag 'probes-v6.10' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/trace/linux-trace

2024-05-18T01:29:30+00:00

Pull probes updates from Masami Hiramatsu:

 - tracing/probes: Add new pseudo-types %pd and %pD support for dumping
   dentry name from 'struct dentry *' and file name from 'struct file *'

 - uprobes performance optimizations:
    - Speed up the BPF uprobe event by delaying the fetching of the
      uprobe event arguments that are not used in BPF
    - Avoid locking by speculatively checking whether uprobe event is
      valid
    - Reduce lock contention by using read/write_lock instead of
      spinlock for uprobe list operation. This improved BPF uprobe
      benchmark result 43% on average

 - rethook: Remove non-fatal warning messages when tracing stack from
   BPF and skip rcu_is_watching() validation in rethook if possible

 - objpool: Optimize objpool (which is used by kretprobes and fprobe as
   rethook backend storage) by inlining functions and avoid caching
   nr_cpu_ids because it is a const value

 - fprobe: Add entry/exit callbacks types (code cleanup)

 - kprobes: Check ftrace was killed in kprobes if it uses ftrace

* tag 'probes-v6.10' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/trace/linux-trace:
  kprobe/ftrace: bail out if ftrace was killed
  selftests/ftrace: Fix required features for VFS type test case
  objpool: cache nr_possible_cpus() and avoid caching nr_cpu_ids
  objpool: enable inlining objpool_push() and objpool_pop() operations
  rethook: honor CONFIG_FTRACE_VALIDATE_RCU_IS_WATCHING in rethook_try_get()
  ftrace: make extra rcu_is_watching() validation check optional
  uprobes: reduce contention on uprobes_tree access
  rethook: Remove warning messages printed for finding return address of a frame.
  fprobe: Add entry/exit callbacks types
  selftests/ftrace: add fprobe test cases for VFS type "%pd" and "%pD"
  selftests/ftrace: add kprobe test cases for VFS type "%pd" and "%pD"
  Documentation: tracing: add new type '%pd' and '%pD' for kprobe
  tracing/probes: support '%pD' type for print struct file's name
  tracing/probes: support '%pd' type for print struct dentry's name
  uprobes: add speculative lockless system-wide uprobe filter check
  uprobes: prepare uprobe args buffer lazily
  uprobes: encapsulate preparation of uprobe args buffer

Merge tag 'sysctl-6.10-rc1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/sysctl/sysctl

2024-05-18T00:31:24+00:00

Pull sysctl updates from Joel Granados:

 - Remove sentinel elements from ctl_table structs in kernel/*

   Removing sentinels in ctl_table arrays reduces the build time size
   and runtime memory consumed by ~64 bytes per array. Removals for
   net/, io_uring/, mm/, ipc/ and security/ are set to go into mainline
   through their respective subsystems making the next release the most
   likely place where the final series that removes the check for
   proc_name == NULL will land.

   This adds to removals already in arch/, drivers/ and fs/.

 - Adjust ctl_table definitions and references to allow constification
     - Remove unused ctl_table function arguments
     - Move non-const elements from ctl_table to ctl_table_header
     - Make ctl_table pointers const in ctl_table_root structure

   Making the static ctl_table structs const will increase safety by
   keeping the pointers to proc_handler functions in .rodata. Though no
   ctl_tables where made const in this PR, the ground work for making
   that possible has started with these changes sent by Thomas
   Weißschuh.

* tag 'sysctl-6.10-rc1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/sysctl/sysctl:
  sysctl: drop now unnecessary out-of-bounds check
  sysctl: move sysctl type to ctl_table_header
  sysctl: drop sysctl_is_perm_empty_ctl_table
  sysctl: treewide: constify argument ctl_table_root::permissions(table)
  sysctl: treewide: drop unused argument ctl_table_root::set_ownership(table)
  bpf: Remove the now superfluous sentinel elements from ctl_table array
  delayacct: Remove the now superfluous sentinel elements from ctl_table array
  kprobes: Remove the now superfluous sentinel elements from ctl_table array
  printk: Remove the now superfluous sentinel elements from ctl_table array
  scheduler: Remove the now superfluous sentinel elements from ctl_table array
  seccomp: Remove the now superfluous sentinel elements from ctl_table array
  timekeeping: Remove the now superfluous sentinel elements from ctl_table array
  ftrace: Remove the now superfluous sentinel elements from ctl_table array
  umh: Remove the now superfluous sentinel elements from ctl_table array
  kernel misc: Remove the now superfluous sentinel elements from ctl_table array

kprobe/ftrace: bail out if ftrace was killed

2024-05-15T22:23:30+00:00

If an error happens in ftrace, ftrace_kill() will prevent disarming
kprobes. Eventually, the ftrace_ops associated with the kprobes will be
freed, yet the kprobes will still be active, and when triggered, they
will use the freed memory, likely resulting in a page fault and panic.

This behavior can be reproduced quite easily, by creating a kprobe and
then triggering a ftrace_kill(). For simplicity, we can simulate an
ftrace error with a kernel module like [1]:

[1]: https://github.com/brenns10/kernel_stuff/tree/master/ftrace_killer

  sudo perf probe --add commit_creds
  sudo perf trace -e probe:commit_creds
  # In another terminal
  make
  sudo insmod ftrace_killer.ko  # calls ftrace_kill(), simulating bug
  # Back to perf terminal
  # ctrl-c
  sudo perf probe --del commit_creds

After a short period, a page fault and panic would occur as the kprobe
continues to execute and uses the freed ftrace_ops. While ftrace_kill()
is supposed to be used only in extreme circumstances, it is invoked in
FTRACE_WARN_ON() and so there are many places where an unexpected bug
could be triggered, yet the system may continue operating, possibly
without the administrator noticing. If ftrace_kill() does not panic the
system, then we should do everything we can to continue operating,
rather than leave a ticking time bomb.

Link: https://lore.kernel.org/all/20240501162956.229427-1-stephen.s.brennan@oracle.com/

Signed-off-by: Stephen Brennan 
Acked-by: Masami Hiramatsu (Google) 
Acked-by: Guo Ren 
Reviewed-by: Steven Rostedt (Google) 
Signed-off-by: Masami Hiramatsu (Google)

kprobes: remove dependency on CONFIG_MODULES

2024-05-14T07:35:06+00:00

kprobes depended on CONFIG_MODULES because it has to allocate memory for
code.

Since code allocations are now implemented with execmem, kprobes can be
enabled in non-modular kernels.

Add #ifdef CONFIG_MODULE guards for the code dealing with kprobes inside
modules, make CONFIG_KPROBES select CONFIG_EXECMEM and drop the
dependency of CONFIG_KPROBES on CONFIG_MODULES.

Signed-off-by: Mike Rapoport (IBM) 
Acked-by: Masami Hiramatsu (Google) 
[mcgrof: rebase in light of NEED_TASKS_RCU ]
Signed-off-by: Luis Chamberlain

mm: introduce execmem_alloc() and execmem_free()

2024-05-14T07:31:43+00:00

module_alloc() is used everywhere as a mean to allocate memory for code.

Beside being semantically wrong, this unnecessarily ties all subsystems
that need to allocate code, such as ftrace, kprobes and BPF to modules and
puts the burden of code allocation to the modules code.

Several architectures override module_alloc() because of various
constraints where the executable memory can be located and this causes
additional obstacles for improvements of code allocation.

Start splitting code allocation from modules by introducing execmem_alloc()
and execmem_free() APIs.

Initially, execmem_alloc() is a wrapper for module_alloc() and
execmem_free() is a replacement of module_memfree() to allow updating all
call sites to use the new APIs.

Since architectures define different restrictions on placement,
permissions, alignment and other parameters for memory that can be used by
different subsystems that allocate executable memory, execmem_alloc() takes
a type argument, that will be used to identify the calling subsystem and to
allow architectures define parameters for ranges suitable for that
subsystem.

No functional changes.

Signed-off-by: Mike Rapoport (IBM) 
Acked-by: Masami Hiramatsu (Google) 
Acked-by: Song Liu 
Acked-by: Steven Rostedt (Google) 
Signed-off-by: Luis Chamberlain

kprobes: Remove the now superfluous sentinel elements from ctl_table array

2024-04-24T07:43:54+00:00

This commit comes at the tail end of a greater effort to remove the
empty elements at the end of the ctl_table arrays (sentinels) which
will reduce the overall build time size of the kernel and run time
memory bloat by ~64 bytes per sentinel (further information Link :
https://lore.kernel.org/all/ZO5Yx5JFogGi%2FcBo@bombadil.infradead.org/)

Remove sentinel element from kprobe_sysclts

Acked-by: Masami Hiramatsu (Google) 
Signed-off-by: Joel Granados

kprobes: Fix possible use-after-free issue on kprobe registration

2024-04-10T14:35:51+00:00

When unloading a module, its state is changing MODULE_STATE_LIVE ->
 MODULE_STATE_GOING -> MODULE_STATE_UNFORMED. Each change will take
a time. `is_module_text_address()` and `__module_text_address()`
works with MODULE_STATE_LIVE and MODULE_STATE_GOING.
If we use `is_module_text_address()` and `__module_text_address()`
separately, there is a chance that the first one is succeeded but the
next one is failed because module->state becomes MODULE_STATE_UNFORMED
between those operations.

In `check_kprobe_address_safe()`, if the second `__module_text_address()`
is failed, that is ignored because it expected a kernel_text address.
But it may have failed simply because module->state has been changed
to MODULE_STATE_UNFORMED. In this case, arm_kprobe() will try to modify
non-exist module text address (use-after-free).

To fix this problem, we should not use separated `is_module_text_address()`
and `__module_text_address()`, but use only `__module_text_address()`
once and do `try_module_get(module)` which is only available with
MODULE_STATE_LIVE.

Link: https://lore.kernel.org/all/20240410015802.265220-1-zhengyejian1@huawei.com/

Fixes: 28f6c37a2910 ("kprobes: Forbid probing on trampoline and BPF code areas")
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Zheng Yejian 
Signed-off-by: Masami Hiramatsu (Google)

kprobes: Remove unnecessary initial values of variables

2024-02-08T14:29:29+00:00

ri and sym is assigned first, so it does not need to initialize the
assignment.

Link: https://lore.kernel.org/all/20230919012823.7815-1-zeming@nfschina.com/

Signed-off-by: Li zeming 
Acked-by: Masami Hiramatsu (Google) 
Signed-off-by: Masami Hiramatsu (Google)

kprobes: consistent rcu api usage for kretprobe holder

2023-12-01T05:53:55+00:00

It seems that the pointer-to-kretprobe "rp" within the kretprobe_holder is
RCU-managed, based on the (non-rethook) implementation of get_kretprobe().
The thought behind this patch is to make use of the RCU API where possible
when accessing this pointer so that the needed barriers are always in place
and to self-document the code.

The __rcu annotation to "rp" allows for sparse RCU checking. Plain writes
done to the "rp" pointer are changed to make use of the RCU macro for
assignment. For the single read, the implementation of get_kretprobe()
is simplified by making use of an RCU macro which accomplishes the same,
but note that the log warning text will be more generic.

I did find that there is a difference in assembly generated between the
usage of the RCU macros vs without. For example, on arm64, when using
rcu_assign_pointer(), the corresponding store instruction is a
store-release (STLR) which has an implicit barrier. When normal assignment
is done, a regular store (STR) is found. In the macro case, this seems to
be a result of rcu_assign_pointer() using smp_store_release() when the
value to write is not NULL.

Link: https://lore.kernel.org/all/20231122132058.3359-1-inwardvessel@gmail.com/

Fixes: d741bf41d7c7 ("kprobes: Remove kretprobe hash")
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: JP Kobryn 
Acked-by: Masami Hiramatsu (Google) 
Signed-off-by: Masami Hiramatsu (Google)