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Commit 862dcc14 authored by Steven Rostedt (VMware)'s avatar Steven Rostedt (VMware) Committed by Greg Kroah-Hartman
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ftrace: Do not blindly read the ip address in ftrace_bug()

commit 6c14133d upstream.

It was reported that a bug on arm64 caused a bad ip address to be used for
updating into a nop in ftrace_init(), but the error path (rightfully)
returned -EINVAL and not -EFAULT, as the bug caused more than one error to
occur. But because -EINVAL was returned, the ftrace_bug() tried to report
what was at the location of the ip address, and read it directly. This
caused the machine to panic, as the ip was not pointing to a valid memory
address.

Instead, read the ip address with copy_from_kernel_nofault() to safely
access the memory, and if it faults, report that the address faulted,
otherwise report what was in that location.

Link: https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/20210607032329.28671-1-mark-pk.tsai@mediatek.com/

Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Fixes: 05736a42

 ("ftrace: warn on failure to disable mcount callers")
Reported-by: default avatarMark-PK Tsai <mark-pk.tsai@mediatek.com>
Tested-by: default avatarMark-PK Tsai <mark-pk.tsai@mediatek.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarSteven Rostedt (VMware) <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Signed-off-by: default avatarGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
parent 681e5c84
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