x86/kprobes: Fix kernel crash when probing .entry_trampoline code

Disable the kprobe probing of the entry trampoline:

.entry_trampoline is a code area that is used to ensure page table
isolation between userspace and kernelspace.

At the beginning of the execution of the trampoline, we load the
kernel's CR3 register. This has the effect of enabling the translation
of the kernel virtual addresses to physical addresses. Before this
happens most kernel addresses can not be translated because the running
process' CR3 is still used.

If a kprobe is placed on the trampoline code before that change of the
CR3 register happens the kernel crashes because int3 handling pages are
not accessible.

To fix this, add the .entry_trampoline section to the kprobe blacklist
to prohibit the probing of code before all the kernel pages are
accessible.

Signed-off-by: Francis Deslauriers <francis.deslauriers@efficios.com>
Reviewed-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: Andy Lutomirski <luto@kernel.org>
Cc: Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de>
Cc: Brian Gerst <brgerst@gmail.com>
Cc: Denys Vlasenko <dvlasenk@redhat.com>
Cc: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
Cc: Josh Poimboeuf <jpoimboe@redhat.com>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: mathieu.desnoyers@efficios.com
Cc: mhiramat@kernel.org
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1520565492-4637-2-git-send-email-francis.deslauriers@efficios.com
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>

1 files changed, 1 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/arch/x86/include/asm/sections.h b/arch/x86/include/asm/sections.h
index d6baf23782bc..5c019d23d06b 100644
--- a/arch/x86/include/asm/sections.h
+++ b/arch/x86/include/asm/sections.h
@@ -10,6 +10,7 @@ extern struct exception_table_entry __stop___ex_table[];
 
 #if defined(CONFIG_X86_64)
 extern char __end_rodata_hpage_align[];
+extern char __entry_trampoline_start[], __entry_trampoline_end[];
 #endif
 
 #endif	/* _ASM_X86_SECTIONS_H */