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From: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
To: "Masami Hiramatsu (Google)" <mhiramat@kernel.org>
Cc: Petr Pavlu <petr.pavlu@suse.com>,
	tglx@linutronix.de, mingo@redhat.com, bp@alien8.de,
	dave.hansen@linux.intel.com, hpa@zytor.com,
	samitolvanen@google.com, x86@kernel.org,
	linux-trace-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [RFC PATCH 1/2] kprobes: Prohibit probing on CFI preamble symbol
Date: Mon, 10 Jul 2023 17:37:24 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20230710153724.GA3040258@hirez.programming.kicks-ass.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <168899126450.80889.16200438320430187434.stgit@devnote2>

On Mon, Jul 10, 2023 at 09:14:24PM +0900, Masami Hiramatsu (Google) wrote:


> +#ifdef CONFIG_CFI_CLANG
> +static bool is_cfi_preamble_symbol(unsigned long addr)
> +{
> +	char symbuf[KSYM_NAME_LEN];
> +
> +	if (lookup_symbol_name(addr, symbuf))
> +		return false;
> +
> +	return str_has_prefix("__cfi_", symbuf)
		|| str_has_prefix("__pfx_", symbol);

The __pfx_ symbols can happen when !CFI_CLANG but still having
FUNCTION_PADDING_BYTES.

> +}
> +#else
> +#define is_cfi_preamble_symbol(addr)	(0)
> +#endif

As such I think we can do the above unconditionally, without either
there should not be any matching symbols.


  reply	other threads:[~2023-07-10 15:37 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 15+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2023-07-10 12:14 [RFC PATCH 0/2] x86: kprobes: Fix CFI_CLANG related issues Masami Hiramatsu (Google)
2023-07-10 12:14 ` [RFC PATCH 1/2] kprobes: Prohibit probing on CFI preamble symbol Masami Hiramatsu (Google)
2023-07-10 15:37   ` Peter Zijlstra [this message]
2023-07-10 23:50     ` Masami Hiramatsu
2023-07-10 12:14 ` [RFC PATCH 2/2] x86/kprobes: Prohibit probing on compiler generated CFI checking code Masami Hiramatsu (Google)
2023-07-10 16:16   ` Peter Zijlstra
2023-07-10 16:21     ` Peter Zijlstra
2023-07-10 23:58     ` Masami Hiramatsu
2023-07-11  7:04       ` Peter Zijlstra
2023-07-11  7:15       ` Peter Zijlstra
2023-07-10 13:46 ` [RFC PATCH 0/2] x86: kprobes: Fix CFI_CLANG related issues Peter Zijlstra
2023-07-10 15:57 ` Nathan Chancellor
2023-07-11  1:33   ` Masami Hiramatsu
2023-07-11 18:37     ` Nathan Chancellor
2023-07-11 19:54       ` Greg Kroah-Hartman

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