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Mark Rutland c9484b986e kcov: ensure irq code sees a valid area
Patch series "kcov: fix unexpected faults".

These patches fix a few issues where KCOV code could trigger recursive
faults, discovered while debugging a patch enabling KCOV for arch/arm:

* On CONFIG_PREEMPT kernels, there's a small race window where
  __sanitizer_cov_trace_pc() can see a bogus kcov_area.

* Lazy faulting of the vmalloc area can cause mutual recursion between
  fault handling code and __sanitizer_cov_trace_pc().

* During the context switch, switching the mm can cause the kcov_area to
  be transiently unmapped.

These are prerequisites for enabling KCOV on arm, but the issues
themsevles are generic -- we just happen to avoid them by chance rather
than design on x86-64 and arm64.

This patch (of 3):

For kernels built with CONFIG_PREEMPT, some C code may execute before or
after the interrupt handler, while the hardirq count is zero.  In these
cases, in_task() can return true.

A task can be interrupted in the middle of a KCOV_DISABLE ioctl while it
resets the task's kcov data via kcov_task_init().  Instrumented code
executed during this period will call __sanitizer_cov_trace_pc(), and as
in_task() returns true, will inspect t->kcov_mode before trying to write
to t->kcov_area.

In kcov_init_task() we update t->kcov_{mode,area,size} with plain stores,
which may be re-ordered, torn, etc.  Thus __sanitizer_cov_trace_pc() may
see bogus values for any of these fields, and may attempt to write to
memory which is not mapped.

Let's avoid this by using WRITE_ONCE() to set t->kcov_mode, with a
barrier() to ensure this is ordered before we clear t->kov_{area,size}.
This ensures that any code execute while kcov_init_task() is preempted
will either see valid values for t->kcov_{area,size}, or will see that
t->kcov_mode is KCOV_MODE_DISABLED, and bail out without touching
t->kcov_area.

Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20180504135535.53744-2-mark.rutland@arm.com
Signed-off-by: Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@arm.com>
Acked-by: Andrey Ryabinin <aryabinin@virtuozzo.com>
Cc: Dmitry Vyukov <dvyukov@google.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2018-06-15 07:55:24 +09:00
Documentation platform-drivers-x86 for v4.18-1 2018-06-14 16:30:30 +09:00
LICENSES LICENSES: Add Linux-OpenIB license text 2018-04-27 16:41:53 -06:00
arch mm: fix devmem_is_allowed() for sub-page System RAM intersections 2018-06-15 07:55:23 +09:00
block treewide: Use array_size() in vzalloc() 2018-06-12 16:19:22 -07:00
certs certs/blacklist_nohashes.c: fix const confusion in certs blacklist 2018-02-21 15:35:43 -08:00
crypto treewide: Use array_size() in sock_kmalloc() 2018-06-12 16:19:22 -07:00
drivers SCSI fixes on 20180613 2018-06-14 16:35:32 +09:00
firmware kbuild: remove all dummy assignments to obj- 2017-11-18 11:46:06 +09:00
fs exofs: avoid VLA in structures 2018-06-15 07:55:24 +09:00
include mm: fix race between kmem_cache destroy, create and deactivate 2018-06-15 07:55:23 +09:00
init Kbuild updates for v4.18 (2nd) 2018-06-13 08:40:34 -07:00
ipc treewide: kvmalloc() -> kvmalloc_array() 2018-06-12 16:19:22 -07:00
kernel kcov: ensure irq code sees a valid area 2018-06-15 07:55:24 +09:00
lib Kbuild updates for v4.18 (2nd) 2018-06-13 08:40:34 -07:00
mm mremap: remove LATENCY_LIMIT from mremap to reduce the number of TLB shootdowns 2018-06-15 07:55:24 +09:00
net - Error path bug fix for overflow tests (Dan) 2018-06-12 18:28:00 -07:00
samples VFIO updates for v4.18 2018-06-12 13:11:26 -07:00
scripts Kbuild updates for v4.18 (2nd) 2018-06-13 08:40:34 -07:00
security + Features 2018-06-14 16:11:28 +09:00
sound - Error path bug fix for overflow tests (Dan) 2018-06-12 18:28:00 -07:00
tools Additional power management updates for 4.18-rc1 2018-06-13 07:24:18 -07:00
usr kbuild: rename built-in.o to built-in.a 2018-03-26 02:01:19 +09:00
virt - Error path bug fix for overflow tests (Dan) 2018-06-12 18:28:00 -07:00
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Kbuild Kbuild updates for v4.15 2017-11-17 17:45:29 -08:00
Kconfig kconfig: add basic helper macros to scripts/Kconfig.include 2018-05-29 03:31:19 +09:00
MAINTAINERS Merge branch 'i2c/for-4.18' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/wsa/linux 2018-06-14 16:21:46 +09:00
Makefile Kbuild: rename CC_STACKPROTECTOR[_STRONG] config variables 2018-06-14 12:21:18 +09:00
README Docs: Added a pointer to the formatted docs to README 2018-03-21 09:02:53 -06:00

README

Linux kernel
============

There are several guides for kernel developers and users. These guides can
be rendered in a number of formats, like HTML and PDF. Please read
Documentation/admin-guide/README.rst first.

In order to build the documentation, use ``make htmldocs`` or
``make pdfdocs``.  The formatted documentation can also be read online at:

    https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/

There are various text files in the Documentation/ subdirectory,
several of them using the Restructured Text markup notation.
See Documentation/00-INDEX for a list of what is contained in each file.

Please read the Documentation/process/changes.rst file, as it contains the
requirements for building and running the kernel, and information about
the problems which may result by upgrading your kernel.