Ensure safeness of inserting kprobes by checking whether the specified
address is at the first byte of a instruction on x86.
This is done by decoding probed function from its head to the probe point.

Signed-off-by: Masami Hiramatsu <mhira...@redhat.com>
Cc: Ananth N Mavinakayanahalli <ana...@in.ibm.com>
Cc: Jim Keniston <jkeni...@us.ibm.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mi...@elte.hu>
---

 arch/x86/kernel/kprobes.c |   54 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
 1 files changed, 54 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-)

diff --git a/arch/x86/kernel/kprobes.c b/arch/x86/kernel/kprobes.c
index 7b5169d..3d5e85f 100644
--- a/arch/x86/kernel/kprobes.c
+++ b/arch/x86/kernel/kprobes.c
@@ -48,12 +48,14 @@
 #include <linux/preempt.h>
 #include <linux/module.h>
 #include <linux/kdebug.h>
+#include <linux/kallsyms.h>
 
 #include <asm/cacheflush.h>
 #include <asm/desc.h>
 #include <asm/pgtable.h>
 #include <asm/uaccess.h>
 #include <asm/alternative.h>
+#include <asm/insn.h>
 
 void jprobe_return_end(void);
 
@@ -244,6 +246,56 @@ retry:
        }
 }
 
+/* Recover the probed instruction at addr for further analysis. */
+static int recover_probed_instruction(kprobe_opcode_t *buf, unsigned long addr)
+{
+       struct kprobe *kp;
+       kp = get_kprobe((void *)addr);
+       if (!kp)
+               return -EINVAL;
+
+       /*
+        * Don't use p->ainsn.insn, which could be modified -- e.g.,
+        * by fix_riprel().
+        */
+       memcpy(buf, kp->addr, MAX_INSN_SIZE * sizeof(kprobe_opcode_t));
+       buf[0] = kp->opcode;
+       return 0;
+}
+
+/* Dummy buffers for kallsyms_lookup */
+static char __dummy_buf[KSYM_NAME_LEN];
+
+/* Check if paddr is at an instruction boundary */
+static int __kprobes can_probe(unsigned long paddr)
+{
+       int ret;
+       unsigned long addr, offset = 0;
+       struct insn insn;
+       kprobe_opcode_t buf[MAX_INSN_SIZE];
+
+       /* Lookup symbol including addr */
+       if (!kallsyms_lookup(paddr, NULL, &offset, NULL, __dummy_buf))
+               return 0;
+
+       /* Decode instructions */
+       addr = paddr - offset;
+       while (addr < paddr) {
+               insn_init_kernel(&insn, (void *)addr);
+               insn_get_opcode(&insn);
+               if (OPCODE1(&insn) == BREAKPOINT_INSTRUCTION) {
+                       ret = recover_probed_instruction(buf, addr);
+                       if (ret)
+                               return 0;
+                       insn_init_kernel(&insn, buf);
+               }
+               insn_get_length(&insn);
+               addr += insn.length;
+       }
+
+       return (addr == paddr);
+}
+
 /*
  * Returns non-zero if opcode modifies the interrupt flag.
  */
@@ -359,6 +411,8 @@ static void __kprobes arch_copy_kprobe(struct kprobe *p)
 
 int __kprobes arch_prepare_kprobe(struct kprobe *p)
 {
+       if (!can_probe((unsigned long)p->addr))
+               return -EILSEQ;
        /* insn: must be on special executable page on x86. */
        p->ainsn.insn = get_insn_slot();
        if (!p->ainsn.insn)


-- 
Masami Hiramatsu

Software Engineer
Hitachi Computer Products (America) Inc.
Software Solutions Division

e-mail: mhira...@redhat.com
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