From 3d7e33825d8799115dd2495c9944badd3272a623 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Michael Ellerman Date: Thu, 19 Jul 2007 01:48:11 -0700 Subject: jprobes: make jprobes a little safer for users I realise jprobes are a razor-blades-included type of interface, but that doesn't mean we can't try and make them safer to use. This guy I know once wrote code like this: struct jprobe jp = { .kp.symbol_name = "foo", .entry = "jprobe_foo" }; And then his kernel exploded. Oops. This patch adds an arch hook, arch_deref_entry_point() (I don't like it either) which takes the void * in a struct jprobe, and gives back the text address that it represents. We can then use that in register_jprobe() to check that the entry point we're passed is actually in the kernel text, rather than just some random value. Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman Cc: Prasanna S Panchamukhi Acked-by: Ananth N Mavinakayanahalli Cc: Anil S Keshavamurthy Cc: David S. Miller Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds --- arch/powerpc/kernel/kprobes.c | 11 ++++++++--- 1 file changed, 8 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-) (limited to 'arch/powerpc/kernel') diff --git a/arch/powerpc/kernel/kprobes.c b/arch/powerpc/kernel/kprobes.c index 0c96611f02f4..440f5a87271f 100644 --- a/arch/powerpc/kernel/kprobes.c +++ b/arch/powerpc/kernel/kprobes.c @@ -492,6 +492,13 @@ int __kprobes kprobe_exceptions_notify(struct notifier_block *self, return ret; } +#ifdef CONFIG_PPC64 +unsigned long arch_deref_entry_point(void *entry) +{ + return (unsigned long)(((func_descr_t *)entry)->entry); +} +#endif + int __kprobes setjmp_pre_handler(struct kprobe *p, struct pt_regs *regs) { struct jprobe *jp = container_of(p, struct jprobe, kp); @@ -500,11 +507,9 @@ int __kprobes setjmp_pre_handler(struct kprobe *p, struct pt_regs *regs) memcpy(&kcb->jprobe_saved_regs, regs, sizeof(struct pt_regs)); /* setup return addr to the jprobe handler routine */ + regs->nip = arch_deref_entry_point(jp->entry); #ifdef CONFIG_PPC64 - regs->nip = (unsigned long)(((func_descr_t *)jp->entry)->entry); regs->gpr[2] = (unsigned long)(((func_descr_t *)jp->entry)->toc); -#else - regs->nip = (unsigned long)jp->entry; #endif return 1; -- cgit v1.2.3