From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1751161AbdE2QiS (ORCPT ); Mon, 29 May 2017 12:38:18 -0400 Received: from mx2.suse.de ([195.135.220.15]:36596 "EHLO mx1.suse.de" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-FAIL) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751078AbdE2QiR (ORCPT ); Mon, 29 May 2017 12:38:17 -0400 Date: Mon, 29 May 2017 18:37:49 +0200 From: Borislav Petkov To: Ricardo Neri Cc: Ingo Molnar , Thomas Gleixner , "H. Peter Anvin" , Andy Lutomirski , Peter Zijlstra , Andrew Morton , Brian Gerst , Chris Metcalf , Dave Hansen , Paolo Bonzini , Masami Hiramatsu , Huang Rui , Jiri Slaby , Jonathan Corbet , "Michael S. Tsirkin" , Paul Gortmaker , Vlastimil Babka , Chen Yucong , Alexandre Julliard , Stas Sergeev , Fenghua Yu , "Ravi V. Shankar" , Shuah Khan , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, x86@kernel.org, linux-msdos@vger.kernel.org, wine-devel@winehq.org, Adam Buchbinder , Colin Ian King , Lorenzo Stoakes , Qiaowei Ren , Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo , Adrian Hunter , Kees Cook , Thomas Garnier , Dmitry Vyukov Subject: Re: [PATCH v7 07/26] x86/insn-eval: Do not BUG on invalid register type Message-ID: <20170529163748.bmihhr4j3hznbhcn@pd.tnic> References: <20170505181724.55000-1-ricardo.neri-calderon@linux.intel.com> <20170505181724.55000-8-ricardo.neri-calderon@linux.intel.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit In-Reply-To: <20170505181724.55000-8-ricardo.neri-calderon@linux.intel.com> User-Agent: NeoMutt/20170113 (1.7.2) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Fri, May 05, 2017 at 11:17:05AM -0700, Ricardo Neri wrote: > We are not in a critical failure path. The invalid register type is caused > when trying to decode invalid instruction bytes from a user-space program. > Thus, simply print an error message. To prevent this warning from being > abused from user space programs, use the rate-limited variant of printk. > > Cc: Borislav Petkov > Cc: Andy Lutomirski > Cc: Dave Hansen > Cc: Adam Buchbinder > Cc: Colin Ian King > Cc: Lorenzo Stoakes > Cc: Qiaowei Ren > Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo > Cc: Masami Hiramatsu > Cc: Adrian Hunter > Cc: Kees Cook > Cc: Thomas Garnier > Cc: Peter Zijlstra > Cc: Dmitry Vyukov > Cc: Ravi V. Shankar > Cc: x86@kernel.org > Signed-off-by: Ricardo Neri > --- > arch/x86/lib/insn-eval.c | 6 +++--- > 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-) > > diff --git a/arch/x86/lib/insn-eval.c b/arch/x86/lib/insn-eval.c > index e746a6f..182e2ae 100644 > --- a/arch/x86/lib/insn-eval.c > +++ b/arch/x86/lib/insn-eval.c > @@ -5,6 +5,7 @@ > */ > #include > #include > +#include > #include > #include > #include > @@ -85,9 +86,8 @@ static int get_reg_offset(struct insn *insn, struct pt_regs *regs, > break; > > default: > - pr_err("invalid register type"); > - BUG(); > - break; > + printk_ratelimited(KERN_ERR "insn-eval: x86: invalid register type"); You can use pr_err_ratelimited() and define "insn-eval" with pr_fmt. Look for examples in the tree. Btw, "insn-eval" is perhaps not the right name - since we're building an instruction decoder, maybe it should be called "insn-dec" or so. I'm looking at those other arch/x86/lib/insn.c, arch/x86/include/asm/inat.h things and how they're starting to morph into one decoding facility, AFAICT. -- Regards/Gruss, Boris. SUSE Linux GmbH, GF: Felix Imendörffer, Jane Smithard, Graham Norton, HRB 21284 (AG Nürnberg) --