[lttng-dev] BUG: optimized kprobes illegal instructions in v4.19 stable kernels

[Greg KH]

On Wed, Feb 06, 2019 at 01:41:15PM +0900, Masami Hiramatsu wrote:
> On Tue, 5 Feb 2019 15:06:10 +0000
> Kees Cook <keescook at chromium.org> wrote:
> 
> > On Mon, Feb 4, 2019 at 7:15 PM Mathieu Desnoyers
> > <mathieu.desnoyers at efficios.com> wrote:
> > >
> > > Hi,
> > >
> > > I notice this commit as a possible culprit of the illegal instructions my lttng
> > > users are noticing on arm32 when using kprobes on a v4.19.13 Linux kernel
> > > in a Yocto environment [1]. They were able to reproduce the issue with perf
> > > as well.
> > >
> > > commit e46daee53bb50bde38805f1823a182979724c229
> > > Author: Kees Cook <keescook at chromium.org>
> > > Date:   Tue Oct 30 22:12:56 2018 +0100
> > >
> > >     ARM: 8806/1: kprobes: Fix false positive with FORTIFY_SOURCE
> > >
> > > I *think* the intent there was to do
> > >
> > > -       memcpy(code, &optprobe_template_entry,
> > > +       memcpy(code, (unsigned long *)&optprobe_template_entry,
> > >
> > > But if you look at the commit, the "&" seems to have been stripped away,
> > > which happens to change the behavior significantly.
> > 
> > Yeah, this was a typo on my part. :(
> 
> Ah, I thought it had been fixed as same as x86.
> On x86, all optprobe_template_* are defined as kprobe_opcode_t [],
> but on arm, it still be kprobe_opcode_t.
> 
> Hmm, but I think we should use kprobe_opcode_t [] or char[] as asm/sections.h does.
> OK, I'll prepare for the change.

Did this ever get fixed in Linus's tree?  If so, what is the git commit
id, I can't seem to find anything...

thanks,

greg k-h