From 66cc69e34e86a231fbe68d8918c6119e3b7549a3 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Mathieu Desnoyers Date: Thu, 13 Mar 2014 12:11:30 +1030 Subject: Fix: module signature vs tracepoints: add new TAINT_UNSIGNED_MODULE Users have reported being unable to trace non-signed modules loaded within a kernel supporting module signature. This is caused by tracepoint.c:tracepoint_module_coming() refusing to take into account tracepoints sitting within force-loaded modules (TAINT_FORCED_MODULE). The reason for this check, in the first place, is that a force-loaded module may have a struct module incompatible with the layout expected by the kernel, and can thus cause a kernel crash upon forced load of that module on a kernel with CONFIG_TRACEPOINTS=y. Tracepoints, however, specifically accept TAINT_OOT_MODULE and TAINT_CRAP, since those modules do not lead to the "very likely system crash" issue cited above for force-loaded modules. With kernels having CONFIG_MODULE_SIG=y (signed modules), a non-signed module is tainted re-using the TAINT_FORCED_MODULE taint flag. Unfortunately, this means that Tracepoints treat that module as a force-loaded module, and thus silently refuse to consider any tracepoint within this module. Since an unsigned module does not fit within the "very likely system crash" category of tainting, add a new TAINT_UNSIGNED_MODULE taint flag to specifically address this taint behavior, and accept those modules within Tracepoints. We use the letter 'X' as a taint flag character for a module being loaded that doesn't know how to sign its name (proposed by Steven Rostedt). Also add the missing 'O' entry to trace event show_module_flags() list for the sake of completeness. Signed-off-by: Mathieu Desnoyers Acked-by: Steven Rostedt NAKed-by: Ingo Molnar CC: Thomas Gleixner CC: David Howells CC: Greg Kroah-Hartman Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell --- kernel/tracepoint.c | 5 +++-- 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) (limited to 'kernel/tracepoint.c') diff --git a/kernel/tracepoint.c b/kernel/tracepoint.c index 031cc5655a5..3cdbed1fbdc 100644 --- a/kernel/tracepoint.c +++ b/kernel/tracepoint.c @@ -633,7 +633,8 @@ EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(tracepoint_iter_reset); #ifdef CONFIG_MODULES bool trace_module_has_bad_taint(struct module *mod) { - return mod->taints & ~((1 << TAINT_OOT_MODULE) | (1 << TAINT_CRAP)); + return mod->taints & ~((1 << TAINT_OOT_MODULE) | (1 << TAINT_CRAP) | + (1 << TAINT_UNSIGNED_MODULE)); } static int tracepoint_module_coming(struct module *mod) @@ -644,7 +645,7 @@ static int tracepoint_module_coming(struct module *mod) /* * We skip modules that taint the kernel, especially those with different * module headers (for forced load), to make sure we don't cause a crash. - * Staging and out-of-tree GPL modules are fine. + * Staging, out-of-tree, and unsigned GPL modules are fine. */ if (trace_module_has_bad_taint(mod)) return 0; -- cgit v1.2.3-18-g5258