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Masami Hiramatsu ee6a7354a3 kprobes/x86: Prohibit probing on exception masking instructions
Since MOV SS and POP SS instructions will delay the exceptions until the
next instruction is executed, single-stepping on it by kprobes must be
prohibited.

However, kprobes usually executes those instructions directly on trampoline
buffer (a.k.a. kprobe-booster), except for the kprobes which has
post_handler. Thus if kprobe user probes MOV SS with post_handler, it will
do single-stepping on the MOV SS.

This means it is safe that if it is used via ftrace or perf/bpf since those
don't use the post_handler.

Anyway, since the stack switching is a rare case, it is safer just
rejecting kprobes on such instructions.

Signed-off-by: Masami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: Ricardo Neri <ricardo.neri-calderon@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Francis Deslauriers <francis.deslauriers@efficios.com>
Cc: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>
Cc: Alexei Starovoitov <ast@kernel.org>
Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Cc: Andy Lutomirski <luto@kernel.org>
Cc: "H . Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
Cc: Yonghong Song <yhs@fb.com>
Cc: Borislav Petkov <bp@suse.de>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: "David S . Miller" <davem@davemloft.net>
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/152587069574.17316.3311695234863248641.stgit@devbox
2018-05-13 19:52:55 +02:00
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Makefile kprobes/x86: Move kprobes stuff under arch/x86/kernel/kprobes/ 2013-01-21 13:22:37 -05:00
common.h Merge branch 'linus' into perf/core, to fix conflicts 2017-11-07 10:30:18 +01:00
core.c kprobes/x86: Prohibit probing on exception masking instructions 2018-05-13 19:52:55 +02:00
ftrace.c kprobes/x86: Remove IRQ disabling from ftrace-based/optimized kprobes 2017-09-28 09:25:50 +02:00
opt.c Merge branch 'x86-pti-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip 2018-01-21 10:48:35 -08:00