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authorAndy Lutomirski <luto@kernel.org>2019-06-26 21:45:04 -0700
committerThomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>2019-06-28 00:04:39 +0200
commit918ce325098a4eef99daad7b6796da33cebaf03a (patch)
tree350e3c5a1bae0686cb0050a466b85917792e4b7f /arch/x86/entry/vsyscall/vsyscall_64.c
parentbd49e16e3339f052fae05fb3e955c5db0c9c6445 (diff)
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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.c19
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.
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