Re: [PATCH v8 1/4] fs/proc/kcore: avoid bounce buffer for ktext data

Linux regression tracking (Thorsten Leemhuis)
2023-07-24T09:38:26Z

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On 31.05.23 13:58, Jiri Olsa wrote:
> On Thu, Mar 23, 2023 at 10:15:16AM +0000, Lorenzo Stoakes wrote:
>> Commit df04abfd181a ("fs/proc/kcore.c: Add bounce buffer for ktext data")
>> introduced the use of a bounce buffer to retrieve kernel text data for
>> /proc/kcore in order to avoid failures arising from hardened user copies
>> enabled by CONFIG_HARDENED_USERCOPY in check_kernel_text_object().
>> [...]
>> Signed-off-by: Lorenzo Stoakes <lstoakes@gmail.com>
>> Reviewed-by: David Hildenbrand <david@redhat.com>
>
> sorry for late feedback, but looks like this one breaks reading
> /proc/kcore with objdump for me:
>
> # cat /proc/kallsyms | grep ksys_read
> ffffffff8150ebc0 T ksys_read
> # objdump -d --start-address=0xffffffff8150ebc0 --stop-address=0xffffffff8150ebd0 /proc/kcore
>
> /proc/kcore: file format elf64-x86-64
>
> objdump: Reading section load1 failed because: Bad address
>
> reverting this makes it work again

Thanks for the report. To be sure the issue doesn't fall through the
cracks unnoticed, I'm adding it to regzbot, the Linux kernel regression
tracking bot:

#regzbot ^introduced 2e1c017077
#regzbot title mm / fs/proc/kcore: reading /proc/kcore with objdump broke
#regzbot ignore-activity

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