CVE-2021-46957
Vulnerability from cvelistv5
Published
2024-02-27 18:46
Modified
2024-11-04 11:56
Severity ?
5.5 (Medium) - CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
Summary
riscv/kprobe: fix kernel panic when invoking sys_read traced by kprobe
References
416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/b1ebaa0e1318494a7637099a26add50509e37964
416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/fd0f06590d35c99f98d12c7984897ec4201a6263
Impacted products
LinuxLinux
LinuxLinux
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[65.711283] ERROR del kernel [#1] [65.712032] M\u00f3dulos vinculados en: [65.712925] CPU: 0 PID: 51 Comm: sh No contaminado 5.12.0-rc4 #1 [65.714407] Nombre de hardware: riscv-virtio,qemu (DT ) [ 65.715696] epc : __find_get_block+0x218/0x2c8 [ 65.716835] ra : __getblk_gfp+0x1c/0x4a [ 65.717831] epc : ffffffe00019f11e ra : ffffffe00019f56a sp : ffffffe00243 7930 [65.719553] gp: ffffffe000f06030 tp: ffffffe0015abc00 t0: ffffffe00191e038 [65.721290] t1: ffffffe00191e038 t2: 000000000000000a s0: ffffffe002437960 [65.723051] s1: ffffffe00160ad00 a0: ffffffe00160ad00 a1: 000000000000012a [65.724772 ] a2 : 0000000000000400 a3 : 0000000000000008 a4 : 0000000000000040 [ 65.726545] a5 : 00000000000000000 a6 : ffffffe00191e000 a7 : 0000000000000 0000 [65.728308] s2: 000000000000012a s3 : 0000000000000400 s4 : 0000000000000008 [ 65.730049] s5 : 000000000000006c s6 : ffffffe00240f800 s7 : ffffffe000f080a8 [ 65.731802] s8 : 0 000000000000001 s9: 000000000000012a s10: 0000000000000008 [65.733516] s11: 00000000000000008 t3: 00000000000003ff t4: 0000000000 00000f [65.734434] t5: 00000000000003ff t6: 0000000000040000 [65.734613] estado: 0000000000000100 badaddr: 00000000000000000 causa: 0000000000000003 [65.734901] Seguimiento de llamadas: [65.735076] [] __find_get_block+ 0x218/0x2c8 [ 65.735417] [] __ext4_get_inode_loc+0xb2/0x2f6 [ 65.735618] [] ext4_get_inode_loc+0x3a/0x8a [ 65.735802] [] ext4_reserve_inode_write+0x2e/0x8c [ 65.735999] [] __ext4_mark_inode_dirty+0x4c/0x18e [ 65.736208] [] ext4_dirty_inode+0x46/0x66 [ 65.736387] [ ] __mark_inode_dirty+0x12c/0x3da [ 65.736576] [] touch_atime+0x146/0x150 [ 65.736748] [] filemap_read+0x234/0x246 [ 65.736920] [] generic_file_read_iter+0xc0/0x114 [ 65.737114 ] [] ext4_file_read_iter+0x42/0xea [ 65.737310] [] new_sync_read+0xe2/0x15a [ 65.737483] [] vfs_read+0xca/0xf2 [ 65.737641] [] ksys_read+0x5e/0xc8 [ 65.737816] [] sys_read+0xe/0x16 [ 65.737973] [] ret_from_syscall+0x0/0x2 [ 65.738858] ---[ end trace fe93f985456c935d ]--- A El reproductor simple se ve as\u00ed: echo \u0027p: myprobe sys_read fd=%a0 buf=%a1 count=%a2\u0027 \u0026gt; /sys/kernel/debug/tracing/kprobe_events echo 1 \u0026gt; /sys/kernel/debug/tracing/events/kprobes/myprobe/enable cat /sys/kernel /debug/tracing/trace Esto es lo que sucede cuando se activa ese BUG_ON(): 1) Despu\u00e9s de instalar kprobe en la entrada de sys_read, la primera instrucci\u00f3n se reemplaza por la instrucci\u00f3n \u0027ebreak\u0027 en la plataforma riscv64. 2) Una vez que el kernel alcanza la instrucci\u00f3n \u0027ebreak\u0027 en la entrada de sys_read, entra en el controlador de punto de interrupci\u00f3n riscv, donde hace algo para configurar la siguiente instrucci\u00f3n de origen de un solo paso, incluida una copia de seguridad del \u0027sstatus\u0027 en pt_regs, seguido de deshabilite la interrupci\u00f3n durante un solo paso mediante el bit \u0027SIE\u0027 claro de \u0027sstatus\u0027 en pt_regs. 3) Luego, la restauraci\u00f3n del kernel en la ranura de instrucciones contiene dos instrucciones, una es la instrucci\u00f3n original en la entrada de sys_read y la otra es \u0027ebreak\u0027. 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