Re: [PATCH v5 2/2] [BUGFIX] kprobes: Fix "Failed to find blacklist" error on ia64 and ppc64

Masami Hiramatsu
2014-07-08T12:07:02Z

Ping?

This patch can be applied without 1/2, and will fix ia64/ppc64 problem.

Thank you,

(2014/07/02 16:00), Masami Hiramatsu wrote:
> On ia64 and ppc64, the function pointer does not point the
> entry address of the function, but the address of function
> discriptor (which contains the entry address and misc
> data.) Since the kprobes passes the function pointer stored
> by NOKPROBE_SYMBOL() to kallsyms_lookup_size_offset() for
> initalizing its blacklist, it fails and reports many errors
> as below.
>
> Failed to find blacklist 0001013168300000
> Failed to find blacklist 0001013000f0a000
> Failed to find blacklist 000101315f70a000
> Failed to find blacklist 000101324c80a000
> Failed to find blacklist 0001013063f0a000
> Failed to find blacklist 000101327800a000
> Failed to find blacklist 0001013277f0a000
> Failed to find blacklist 000101315a70a000
> Failed to find blacklist 0001013277e0a000
> Failed to find blacklist 000101305a20a000
> Failed to find blacklist 0001013277d0a000
> Failed to find blacklist 00010130bdc0a000
> Failed to find blacklist 00010130dc20a000
> Failed to find blacklist 000101309a00a000
> Failed to find blacklist 0001013277c0a000
> Failed to find blacklist 0001013277b0a000
> Failed to find blacklist 0001013277a0a000
> Failed to find blacklist 000101327790a000
> Failed to find blacklist 000101303140a000
> Failed to find blacklist 0001013a3280a000
>
> To fix this bug, this introduces function_entry() macro to
> retrieve the entry address from the given function pointer,
> and uses for kallsyms_lookup_size_offset() while initializing
> blacklist.
>
> Changes in v5:
> - Use arch_deref_entry_point() instead of function_entry().
>
> Changes in v4:
> - Add kernel_text_address() check for verifying the address.
> - Moved on the latest linus tree.
>
> Changes in v3:
> - Fix a bug to get blacklist address based on function entry
> instead of function descriptor. (Suzuki's work, Thanks!)
>
> Changes in V2:
> - Use function_entry() macro when lookin up symbols instead
> of storing it.
> - Update for the latest -next.
>
> Signed-off-by: Masami Hiramatsu <masami.hiramatsu.pt@hitachi.com>
> Reported-by: Tony Luck <tony.luck@gmail.com>
> Tested-by: Tony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com>
> Cc: Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au>
> Cc: Suzuki K. Poulose <suzuki@in.ibm.com>
> Cc: Tony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com>
> Cc: Fenghua Yu <fenghua.yu@intel.com>
> Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
> Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
> Cc: Ananth N Mavinakayanahalli <ananth@in.ibm.com>
> Cc: Kevin Hao <haokexin@gmail.com>
> Cc: linux-ia64@vger.kernel.org
> Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
> Cc: linuxppc-dev@lists.ozlabs.org
> ---
> kernel/kprobes.c | 15 ++++++++++-----
> 1 file changed, 10 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/kernel/kprobes.c b/kernel/kprobes.c
> index 3214289..ec370cc 100644
> --- a/kernel/kprobes.c
> +++ b/kernel/kprobes.c
> @@ -32,6 +32,7 @@
> * <prasanna@in.ibm.com> added function-return probes.
> */
> #include <linux/kprobes.h>
> +#include <linux/types.h>
> #include <linux/hash.h>
> #include <linux/init.h>
> #include <linux/slab.h>
> @@ -2037,19 +2038,23 @@ static int __init populate_kprobe_blacklist(unsigned long *start,
> {
> unsigned long *iter;
> struct kprobe_blacklist_entry *ent;
> - unsigned long offset = 0, size = 0;
> + unsigned long entry, offset = 0, size = 0;
>
> for (iter = start; iter < end; iter++) {
> - if (!kallsyms_lookup_size_offset(*iter, &size, &offset)) {
> - pr_err("Failed to find blacklist %p\n", (void *)*iter);
> + entry = arch_deref_entry_point((void *)*iter);
> +
> + if (!kernel_text_address(entry) ||
> + !kallsyms_lookup_size_offset(entry, &size, &offset)) {
> + pr_err("Failed to find blacklist at %p\n",
> + (void *)entry);
> continue;
> }
>
> ent = kmalloc(sizeof(*ent), GFP_KERNEL);
> if (!ent)
> return -ENOMEM;
> - ent->start_addr = *iter;
> - ent->end_addr = *iter + size;
> + ent->start_addr = entry;
> + ent->end_addr = entry + size;
> INIT_LIST_HEAD(&ent->list);
> list_add_tail(&ent->list, &kprobe_blacklist);
> }
>
>
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Masami HIRAMATSU
Software Platform Research Dept. Linux Technology Research Center
Hitachi, Ltd., Yokohama Research Laboratory
E-mail: masami.hiramatsu.pt@hitachi.com