kallsyms: Don't let kallsyms_lookup_size_offset() fail on retrieving the first symbol
authorMarc Zyngier <maz@kernel.org>
Sat, 24 Aug 2019 13:12:31 +0000 (14:12 +0100)
committerGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Sat, 21 Sep 2019 05:17:02 +0000 (07:17 +0200)
commit9a74f799b99c7aaad8304c33733f4e02c8c7890d
treec632885d05238ee3acf1fc5e887e965df88ab21e
parent0f7130177325cedca5155724d928139d9aa8acd6
kallsyms: Don't let kallsyms_lookup_size_offset() fail on retrieving the first symbol

[ Upstream commit 2a1a3fa0f29270583f0e6e3100d609e09697add1 ]

An arm64 kernel configured with

  CONFIG_KPROBES=y
  CONFIG_KALLSYMS=y
  # CONFIG_KALLSYMS_ALL is not set
  CONFIG_KALLSYMS_BASE_RELATIVE=y

reports the following kprobe failure:

  [    0.032677] kprobes: failed to populate blacklist: -22
  [    0.033376] Please take care of using kprobes.

It appears that kprobe fails to retrieve the symbol at address
0xffff000010081000, despite this symbol being in System.map:

  ffff000010081000 T __exception_text_start

This symbol is part of the first group of aliases in the
kallsyms_offsets array (symbol names generated using ugly hacks in
scripts/kallsyms.c):

  kallsyms_offsets:
          .long   0x1000 // do_undefinstr
          .long   0x1000 // efi_header_end
          .long   0x1000 // _stext
          .long   0x1000 // __exception_text_start
          .long   0x12b0 // do_cp15instr

Looking at the implementation of get_symbol_pos(), it returns the
lowest index for aliasing symbols. In this case, it return 0.

But kallsyms_lookup_size_offset() considers 0 as a failure, which
is obviously wrong (there is definitely a valid symbol living there).
In turn, the kprobe blacklisting stops abruptly, hence the original
error.

A CONFIG_KALLSYMS_ALL kernel wouldn't fail as there is always
some random symbols at the beginning of this array, which are never
looked up via kallsyms_lookup_size_offset.

Fix it by considering that get_symbol_pos() is always successful
(which is consistent with the other uses of this function).

Fixes: ffc5089196446 ("[PATCH] Create kallsyms_lookup_size_offset()")
Reviewed-by: Masami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@kernel.org>
Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Will Deacon <will@kernel.org>
Cc: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com>
Signed-off-by: Marc Zyngier <maz@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Will Deacon <will@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sashal@kernel.org>
kernel/kallsyms.c