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authorMike Frysinger <vapier@gentoo.org>2014-12-10 15:52:08 -0800
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>2014-12-10 17:41:12 -0800
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binfmt_misc: add comments & debug logs
When trying to develop a custom format handler, the errors returned all effectively get bucketed as EINVAL with no kernel messages. The other errors (ENOMEM/EFAULT) are internal/obvious and basic. Thus any time a bad handler is rejected, the developer has to walk the dense code and try to guess where it went wrong. Needing to dive into kernel code is itself a fairly high barrier for a lot of people. To improve this situation, let's deploy extensive pr_debug markers at logical parse points, and add comments to the dense parsing logic. It let's you see exactly where the parsing aborts, the string the kernel received (useful when dealing with shell code), how it translated the buffers to binary data, and how it will apply the mask at runtime. Some example output: $ echo ':qemu-foo:M::\x7fELF\xAD\xAD\x01\x00:\xff\xff\xff\xff\xff\x00\xff\x00:/usr/bin/qemu-foo:POC' > register $ dmesg binfmt_misc: register: received 92 bytes binfmt_misc: register: delim: 0x3a {:} binfmt_misc: register: name: {qemu-foo} binfmt_misc: register: type: M (magic) binfmt_misc: register: offset: 0x0 binfmt_misc: register: magic[raw]: 5c 78 37 66 45 4c 46 5c 78 41 44 5c 78 41 44 5c \x7fELF\xAD\xAD\ binfmt_misc: register: magic[raw]: 78 30 31 5c 78 30 30 00 x01\x00. binfmt_misc: register: mask[raw]: 5c 78 66 66 5c 78 66 66 5c 78 66 66 5c 78 66 66 \xff\xff\xff\xff binfmt_misc: register: mask[raw]: 5c 78 66 66 5c 78 30 30 5c 78 66 66 5c 78 30 30 \xff\x00\xff\x00 binfmt_misc: register: mask[raw]: 00 . binfmt_misc: register: magic/mask length: 8 binfmt_misc: register: magic[decoded]: 7f 45 4c 46 ad ad 01 00 .ELF.... binfmt_misc: register: mask[decoded]: ff ff ff ff ff 00 ff 00 ........ binfmt_misc: register: magic[masked]: 7f 45 4c 46 ad 00 01 00 .ELF.... binfmt_misc: register: interpreter: {/usr/bin/qemu-foo} binfmt_misc: register: flag: P (preserve argv0) binfmt_misc: register: flag: O (open binary) binfmt_misc: register: flag: C (preserve creds) The [raw] lines show us exactly what was received from userspace. The lines after that show us how the kernel has decoded things. Signed-off-by: Mike Frysinger <vapier@gentoo.org> Cc: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk> Cc: Joe Perches <joe@perches.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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