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Patch series "kallsyms: Prevent invalid access when showing module
buildid", v3.
We have seen nested crashes in __sprint_symbol(), see below. They seem to
be caused by an invalid pointer to "buildid". This patchset cleans up
kallsyms code related to module buildid and fixes this invalid access when
printing backtraces.
I made an audit of __sprint_symbol() and found several situations
when the buildid might be wrong:
+ bpf_address_lookup() does not set @modbuildid
+ ftrace_mod_address_lookup() does not set @modbuildid
+ __sprint_symbol() does not take rcu_read_lock and
the related struct module might get removed before
mod->build_id is printed.
This patchset solves these problems:
+ 1st, 2nd patches are preparatory
+ 3rd, 4th, 6th patches fix the above problems
+ 5th patch cleans up a suspicious initialization code.
This is the backtrace, we have seen. But it is not really important.
The problems fixed by the patchset are obvious:
crash64> bt [62/2029]
PID: 136151 TASK: ffff9f6c981d4000 CPU: 367 COMMAND: "btrfs"
#0 [ffffbdb687635c28] machine_kexec at ffffffffb4c845b3
#1 [ffffbdb687635c80] __crash_kexec at ffffffffb4d86a6a
#2 [ffffbdb687635d08] hex_string at ffffffffb51b3b61
#3 [ffffbdb687635d40] crash_kexec at ffffffffb4d87964
#4 [ffffbdb687635d50] oops_end at ffffffffb4c41fc8
#5 [ffffbdb687635d70] do_trap at ffffffffb4c3e49a
#6 [ffffbdb687635db8] do_error_trap at ffffffffb4c3e6a4
#7 [ffffbdb687635df8] exc_stack_segment at ffffffffb5666b33
#8 [ffffbdb687635e20] asm_exc_stack_segment at ffffffffb5800cf9
...
This patch (of 7)
The function kallsyms_lookup_buildid() initializes the given @namebuf by
clearing the first and the last byte. It is not clear why.
The 1st byte makes sense because some callers ignore the return code and
expect that the buffer contains a valid string, for example:
- function_stat_show()
- kallsyms_lookup()
- kallsyms_lookup_buildid()
The initialization of the last byte does not make much sense because it
can later be overwritten. Fortunately, it seems that all called functions
behave correctly:
- kallsyms_expand_symbol() explicitly adds the trailing '\0'
at the end of the function.
- All *__address_lookup() functions either use the safe strscpy()
or they do not touch the buffer at all.
Document the reason for clearing the first byte. And remove the useless
initialization of the last byte.
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20251128135920.217303-2-pmladek@suse.com
Signed-off-by: Petr Mladek <pmladek@suse.com>
Reviewed-by: Aaron Tomlin <atomlin@atomlin.com>
Cc: Alexei Starovoitov <ast@kernel.org>
Cc: Daniel Borkman <daniel@iogearbox.net>
Cc: John Fastabend <john.fastabend@gmail.com>
Cc: Kees Cook <kees@kernel.org>
Cc: Luis Chamberalin <mcgrof@kernel.org>
Cc: Marc Rutland <mark.rutland@arm.com>
Cc: "Masami Hiramatsu (Google)" <mhiramat@kernel.org>
Cc: Petr Pavlu <petr.pavlu@suse.com>
Cc: Sami Tolvanen <samitolvanen@google.com>
Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Cc: Daniel Gomez <da.gomez@samsung.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
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