jprobes: make jprobes a little safer for users

I realise jprobes are a razor-blades-included type of interface, but that
doesn't mean we can't try and make them safer to use.  This guy I know once
wrote code like this:

struct jprobe jp = { .kp.symbol_name = "foo", .entry = "jprobe_foo" };

And then his kernel exploded. Oops.

This patch adds an arch hook, arch_deref_entry_point() (I don't like it
either) which takes the void * in a struct jprobe, and gives back the text
address that it represents.

We can then use that in register_jprobe() to check that the entry point we're
passed is actually in the kernel text, rather than just some random value.

Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman <[email protected]>
Cc: Prasanna S Panchamukhi <[email protected]>
Acked-by: Ananth N Mavinakayanahalli <[email protected]>
Cc: Anil S Keshavamurthy <[email protected]>
Cc: David S. Miller <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <[email protected]>
This commit is contained in:
Michael Ellerman 2007-07-19 01:48:11 -07:00 • committed by Linus Torvalds
commit 3d7e33825d
4 changed files with 24 additions and 4 deletions

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@ -675,9 +675,18 @@ static struct notifier_block kprobe_exceptions_nb = {
.priority = 0x7fffffff /* we need to be notified first */
};
unsigned long __weak arch_deref_entry_point(void *entry)
{
return (unsigned long)entry;
}
int __kprobes register_jprobe(struct jprobe *jp)
{
unsigned long addr = arch_deref_entry_point(jp->entry);
if (!kernel_text_address(addr))
return -EINVAL;
/* Todo: Verify probepoint is a function entry point */
jp->kp.pre_handler = setjmp_pre_handler;
jp->kp.break_handler = longjmp_break_handler;