Re: arch_check_bp_in_kernelspace: fix the range check

[Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>]

forgot to mention...

On 11/23, Oleg Nesterov wrote:
>
> On 11/23, Amnon Shiloh wrote:
> >
> > Or, there is an alternative: if only I (the ptracer or the traced process)
> > was allowed to munmap the vsyscall page,
>
> It is not possible to unmap it. The kernel (swapper_pg_dir) has this
> mapping, not the process. Unlike vdso. IOW, you can only "unmap" it
> globally and obviously you can't do this from the userspace.

And even if this were possible, this can't help. Please look at
__bad_area_nosemaphore()->emulate_vsyscall(), the process won't get
SIGSEGV. IOW, in fact EMULATE already "unmaps" this page (sets _NX)
to trigger the fault.

Sure, we can do something like below, but it doesn't look very nice
too.

Oleg.

--- x/arch/x86/mm/fault.c
+++ x/arch/x86/mm/fault.c
@@ -744,7 +744,8 @@ __bad_area_nosemaphore(struct pt_regs *r
 		 */
 		if (unlikely((error_code & PF_INSTR) &&
 			     ((address & ~0xfff) == VSYSCALL_START))) {
-			if (emulate_vsyscall(regs, address))
+			if (!(tsk->ptrace & PTRACE_O_DONTEMULATE) &&
+			    emulate_vsyscall(regs, address))
 				return;
 		}
 #endif