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From: Masami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@kernel.org>
To: Andy Lutomirski <luto@kernel.org>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>,
	Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>,
	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>,
	Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/2 v2] kprobe: Do not use uaccess functions to access kernel memory that can fault
Date: Mon, 25 Feb 2019 17:09:45 +0900	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20190225170945.d808659362b364298c3206e9@kernel.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CALCETrUHASYthoWGB-CLcvtNEhAp83aA4+iGHtqjtX4ML6chfA@mail.gmail.com>

On Sun, 24 Feb 2019 20:49:45 -0800
Andy Lutomirski <luto@kernel.org> wrote:

> On Sun, Feb 24, 2019 at 6:40 PM Masami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@kernel.org> wrote:
> >
> > On Sun, 24 Feb 2019 09:26:45 -0800
> > Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> wrote:
> >
> > > On Sun, Feb 24, 2019 at 7:18 AM Masami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@kernel.org> wrote:
> > > >
> > > > On Sat, 23 Feb 2019 20:38:03 -0800
> > > > Andy Lutomirski <luto@kernel.org> wrote:
> > > > >
> > > > > Can we just get rid of this might_sleep()?  access_ok() doesn't sleep
> > > > > as far as I know.
> > > >
> > > > Hmm, which might_sleep() would you pointed? What I talked was a
> > > > WARN_ON_ONCE(!in_task()) in access_ok() on x86 (only!), and in_task() just
> > > > checks preempt_count.
> > >
> > > So the in_task() check does kind of make sense. Using "access_ok()"
> > > outside of task context is certainly an odd thing, for several
> > > reasons. The main one being simply that outside of task context, the
> > > whole "which task" question is open, and you don't know if the task is
> > > the active one, and so it's not clear if whatever task you interrupt
> > > might have done "set_fs()" or not.
> >
> > Ah I got it. Usual case access_ok() in IRQ handler is strange.
> >
> > >
> > > So PeterZ isn't wrong:
> > >
> > > > I guess PeterZ assumed that access_ok() is used only with user space access
> > > > APIs (e.g. copy_from_user) which can cause page-fault and locks mm (and might
> > > > sleep :)), but now we are trying to use access_ok() with new functions which
> > > > disables page-fault and just return -EFAULT.
> > >
> > > .. but in this case, if we do it all *within* code that saves and
> > > restores the user access flag with get_fs/set_fs, access_ok() would be
> > > ok and it doesn't have the above issue.
> > >
> > > So access_ok() in _general_ is absolutely not safe to do from
> > > interrupts, but within the context of probing user memory from a
> > > tracing event it just happens to be ok.
> >
> > Hmm, but user can specify user-memory access from the tracing event
> > which is located in interrupt handler. So I understand that it is safe
> > only if we correctly setup access flag with get_fs/set_fs, is that
> > correct?
> >
> > > It would be lovely to have a special macro for this, and keep the
> > > warning for the general case, but because this is a "every
> > > architecture needs to build their own" it's probably too painful.
> >
> > Agreed.
> 
> This should probably go with whatever effort makes nmi_uaccess_ok()
> available on all architectures.  That being said, how about just
> making copy_from_user_nmi() work on all architectures, even if it just
> fails unconditionally on some of them?

I think even if we have copy_from_user_nmi(), we need something like
nmi_uaccess_ok() because without it we can not correctly use
__copy_from_user_inatomic()...


Thank you,

-- 
Masami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@kernel.org>

  reply	other threads:[~2019-02-25  8:09 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
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 [this message]
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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