From: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
To: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Cc: Andy Lutomirski <luto@amacapital.net>,
Linux List Kernel Mailing <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>,
Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
stable <stable@vger.kernel.org>,
Changbin Du <changbin.du@gmail.com>, Jann Horn <jannh@google.com>,
Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>,
Andy Lutomirski <luto@kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/2 v2] kprobe: Do not use uaccess functions to access kernel memory that can fault
Date: Mon, 18 Feb 2019 10:23:44 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAHk-=wh9XrOykA5J9RQ7zaBio-S_D+1AE+rGnBYWSd==pCXh+w@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAHk-=wgJzNp0R3cVhjBPHTR4X9sOvHdqK4UVFfbsOKQ6L=A_eQ@mail.gmail.com>
On Mon, Feb 18, 2019 at 9:58 AM Linus Torvalds
<torvalds@linux-foundation.org> wrote:
>
> So I've pulled the existing pull request, because it papers over one
> particular issue, but the real fix would require:
>
> - knowing whether it's kernel or user space you access
Actually, it would be good to split the "kernel space" access into
finer granularities, because it would be good to limit those addresses
by what you expect to happen.
For example, on x86-64, we have a separate virtual mapping for kernel
text. If you're following a data pointer, you probably shouldn't even
look at that area, and just disallow it up-front.
And the vmalloc space, we should probably look up the vmalloc
descriptor for the address, to make sure we don't go into ioremap'ed
areas (but we'd generally *do* want to follow pages for module data,
or for vmap'ed stacks).
And fixmap and/or percpu pointers may or may not be something that
we'd want to follow.
Etc.
So it would be good to not just say "user or kernel", but actually say
what *kind* of kernel access it expects.
Linus
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2019-02-18 18:24 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 85+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2019-02-15 17:47 [PATCH 0/2 v2] [GIT PULL (take two)] tracing: Two more fixes Steven Rostedt
2019-02-15 17:47 ` [PATCH 1/2 v2] kprobe: Do not use uaccess functions to access kernel memory that can fault Steven Rostedt
2019-02-15 17:55 ` Linus Torvalds
2019-02-15 22:15 ` Steven Rostedt
2019-02-15 23:49 ` Andy Lutomirski
2019-02-16 0:19 ` Steven Rostedt
2019-02-16 1:32 ` Andy Lutomirski
2019-02-16 2:08 ` Steven Rostedt
2019-02-16 2:14 ` Andy Lutomirski
2019-02-16 2:21 ` Steven Rostedt
2019-02-18 17:58 ` Linus Torvalds
2019-02-18 18:23 ` Linus Torvalds [this message]
2019-02-19 16:18 ` Steven Rostedt
2019-02-19 18:43 ` Linus Torvalds
2019-02-19 19:03 ` Steven Rostedt
2019-02-20 8:10 ` Masami Hiramatsu
2019-02-20 13:57 ` Jann Horn
2019-02-20 14:47 ` Steven Rostedt
2019-02-20 15:08 ` Masami Hiramatsu
2019-02-20 14:49 ` Steven Rostedt
2019-02-20 16:04 ` Masami Hiramatsu
2019-02-20 16:42 ` Steven Rostedt
2019-02-21 7:37 ` Masami Hiramatsu
2019-02-22 8:27 ` Masami Hiramatsu
2019-02-22 8:35 ` Masami Hiramatsu
2019-02-22 17:43 ` Linus Torvalds
2019-02-22 17:48 ` Andy Lutomirski
2019-02-22 18:28 ` Linus Torvalds
2019-02-22 19:52 ` Andy Lutomirski
2019-02-22 19:27 ` Alexei Starovoitov
2019-02-22 19:30 ` Steven Rostedt
2019-02-22 19:34 ` Alexei Starovoitov
2019-02-22 19:39 ` Steven Rostedt
2019-02-22 19:55 ` Andy Lutomirski
2019-02-22 21:43 ` Jann Horn
2019-02-22 22:08 ` Nadav Amit
2019-02-22 22:17 ` Jann Horn
2019-02-22 22:21 ` Nadav Amit
2019-02-22 22:39 ` Nadav Amit
2019-02-22 23:02 ` Jann Horn
2019-02-22 23:22 ` Nadav Amit
2019-02-22 23:59 ` Andy Lutomirski
2019-02-23 0:03 ` Alexei Starovoitov
2019-02-23 0:15 ` Nadav Amit
2019-02-24 19:35 ` Andy Lutomirski
2019-02-25 13:36 ` Masami Hiramatsu
2019-02-22 21:20 ` Linus Torvalds
2019-02-22 21:38 ` David Miller
2019-02-22 21:59 ` Linus Torvalds
2019-02-22 22:51 ` Alexei Starovoitov
2019-02-22 23:11 ` Jann Horn
2019-02-22 23:16 ` David Miller
2019-02-22 23:16 ` Linus Torvalds
2019-02-22 23:56 ` Alexei Starovoitov
2019-02-23 0:08 ` Linus Torvalds
2019-02-23 2:28 ` Alexei Starovoitov
2019-02-23 2:32 ` Linus Torvalds
2019-02-23 3:02 ` Steven Rostedt
2019-02-23 4:51 ` Masami Hiramatsu
2019-02-26 3:57 ` Christoph Hellwig
2019-02-26 15:24 ` Joel Fernandes
2019-02-28 12:29 ` Masami Hiramatsu
2019-02-28 15:18 ` Joel Fernandes
2019-02-23 3:47 ` Masami Hiramatsu
2019-02-24 0:44 ` Steven Rostedt
2019-02-24 4:38 ` Andy Lutomirski
2019-02-24 15:17 ` Masami Hiramatsu
2019-02-24 17:26 ` Linus Torvalds
2019-02-25 2:40 ` Masami Hiramatsu
2019-02-25 4:49 ` Andy Lutomirski
2019-02-25 8:09 ` Masami Hiramatsu
2019-02-25 16:40 ` Steven Rostedt
2019-02-26 1:35 ` Masami Hiramatsu
2019-02-25 8:33 ` Peter Zijlstra
2019-02-25 14:52 ` Peter Zijlstra
2019-02-25 16:48 ` Kees Cook
2019-02-25 16:58 ` Andy Lutomirski
2019-02-25 17:07 ` Kees Cook
2019-02-21 7:52 ` Masami Hiramatsu
2019-02-21 14:36 ` Steven Rostedt
2019-02-21 15:58 ` Masami Hiramatsu
2019-02-21 16:16 ` Masami Hiramatsu
2019-02-21 16:32 ` Steven Rostedt
2019-02-23 14:48 ` Masami Hiramatsu
2019-02-15 17:47 ` [PATCH 2/2 v2] tracing: Fix number of entries in trace header Steven Rostedt
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