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| author | Andy Lutomirski <luto@kernel.org> | 2019-06-26 21:45:04 -0700 |
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| committer | Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> | 2019-06-28 00:04:39 +0200 |
| commit | 918ce325098a4eef99daad7b6796da33cebaf03a (patch) | |
| tree | 350e3c5a1bae0686cb0050a466b85917792e4b7f /arch/x86/entry/vsyscall/vsyscall_64.c | |
| parent | bd49e16e3339f052fae05fb3e955c5db0c9c6445 (diff) | |
| download | linux-918ce325098a4eef99daad7b6796da33cebaf03a.tar.gz | |
x86/vsyscall: Show something useful on a read fault
Just segfaulting the application when it tries to read the vsyscall page in xonly mode is not helpful for those who need to debug it. Emit a hint. Signed-off-by: Andy Lutomirski <luto@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Reviewed-by: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org> Cc: Florian Weimer <fweimer@redhat.com> Cc: Jann Horn <jannh@google.com> Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/8016afffe0eab497be32017ad7f6f7030dc3ba66.1561610354.git.luto@kernel.org
Diffstat (limited to 'arch/x86/entry/vsyscall/vsyscall_64.c')
| -rw-r--r-- | arch/x86/entry/vsyscall/vsyscall_64.c | 19 |
1 files changed, 18 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/arch/x86/entry/vsyscall/vsyscall_64.c b/arch/x86/entry/vsyscall/vsyscall_64.c index fedd7628f3a6..9c58ab807aeb 100644 --- a/arch/x86/entry/vsyscall/vsyscall_64.c +++ b/arch/x86/entry/vsyscall/vsyscall_64.c @@ -117,7 +117,8 @@ static bool write_ok_or_segv(unsigned long ptr, size_t size) } } -bool emulate_vsyscall(struct pt_regs *regs, unsigned long address) +bool emulate_vsyscall(unsigned long error_code, + struct pt_regs *regs, unsigned long address) { struct task_struct *tsk; unsigned long caller; @@ -126,6 +127,22 @@ bool emulate_vsyscall(struct pt_regs *regs, unsigned long address) long ret; unsigned long orig_dx; + /* Write faults or kernel-privilege faults never get fixed up. */ + if ((error_code & (X86_PF_WRITE | X86_PF_USER)) != X86_PF_USER) + return false; + + if (!(error_code & X86_PF_INSTR)) { + /* Failed vsyscall read */ + if (vsyscall_mode == EMULATE) + return false; + + /* + * User code tried and failed to read the vsyscall page. + */ + warn_bad_vsyscall(KERN_INFO, regs, "vsyscall read attempt denied -- look up the vsyscall kernel parameter if you need a workaround"); + return false; + } + /* * No point in checking CS -- the only way to get here is a user mode * trap to a high address, which means that we're in 64-bit user code. |