The current x86 instruction decoder steps along through the
instruction stream but always ensures that it never steps farther
than the largest possible instruction size (MAX_INSN_SIZE).
The MPX code is now going to be doing some decoding of userspace
instructions. We copy those from userspace in to the kernel and
they're obviously completely untrusted coming from userspace. In
addition to the constraint that instructions can only be so long,
we also have to be aware of how long the buffer is that came in
from userspace. This _looks_ to be similar to what the perf and
kprobes is doing, but it's unclear to me whether they are
affected.
The whole reason we need this is that it is perfectly valid to be
executing an instruction within MAX_INSN_SIZE bytes of an
unreadable page. We should be able to gracefully handle short
reads in those cases.
This adds support to the decoder to record how long the buffer
being decoded is and to refuse to "validate" the instruction if
we would have gone over the end of the buffer to decode it.
The kprobes code probably needs to be looked at here a bit more
carefully. This patch still respects the MAX_INSN_SIZE limit
there but the kprobes code does look like it might be able to
be a bit more strict than it currently is.
Signed-off-by: Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@linux.intel.com>
Acked-by: Jim Keniston <jkenisto@us.ibm.com>
Acked-by: Masami Hiramatsu <masami.hiramatsu.pt@hitachi.com>
Cc: x86@kernel.org
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@kernel.org>
Cc: Srikar Dronamraju <srikar@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Ananth N Mavinakayanahalli <ananth@in.ibm.com>
Cc: Anil S Keshavamurthy <anil.s.keshavamurthy@intel.com>
Cc: "David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20141114153957.E6B01535@viggo.jf.intel.com
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
The kernel build prints:
Building modules, stage 2.
TEST posttest
MODPOST 3821 modules
TEST posttest
Success: decoded and checked 1000000 random instructions with 0
errors (seed:0xaac4bc47) CC arch/x86/boot/a20.o
CC arch/x86/boot/cmdline.o
AS arch/x86/boot/copy.o
HOSTCC arch/x86/boot/mkcpustr
CC arch/x86/boot/cpucheck.o
CC arch/x86/boot/early_serial_console.o
which is irritating because you don't know what program is
proudly pronouncing its success.
So, as described in "console mode programming user interface
guidelines version 101" which doesn't exist, change this program
to identify the source of its messages.
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
Cc: Masami Hiramatsu <masami.hiramatsu.pt@hitachi.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Fix instruction decoder test (insn_sanity), so that
it doesn't show both info and error messages twice on
same instruction. (In that case, show only error message)
Signed-off-by: Masami Hiramatsu <masami.hiramatsu.pt@hitachi.com>
Cc: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
Cc: yrl.pp-manager.tt@hitachi.com
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20111205120545.15475.7928.stgit@cloud
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Add a sanity test of x86 insn decoder against a stream
of randomly generated input, at build time.
This test is also able to reproduce any bug that might
trigger by allowing the passing of random-seed and
iteration-number to the test, or by passing input
which has invalid byte code.
Changes in V2:
- Code cleanup.
- Show how to reproduce the error by insn_sanity test.
Signed-off-by: Masami Hiramatsu <masami.hiramatsu.pt@hitachi.com>
Cc: acme@redhat.com
Cc: ming.m.lin@intel.com
Cc: robert.richter@amd.com
Cc: ravitillo@lbl.gov
Cc: yrl.pp-manager.tt@hitachi.com
Cc: Andi Kleen <andi@firstfloor.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Stephane Eranian <eranian@google.com>
Cc: Andi Kleen <andi@firstfloor.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20111020140109.20938.92572.stgit@localhost.localdomain
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
