The main kdb command parser only handles CR (ASCII 13 AKA '\r') today,
but not LF (ASCII 10 AKA '\n'). That means that the kdb command parser
can handle terminals that send just CR or that send CR+LF but can't
handle terminals that send just LF.
The fact that kdb didn't handle LF in the command parser tripped up a
tool I tried to use with it. Specifically, I was trying to send a
command to my device to resume it from kdb using a ChromeOS tool like:
dut-control cpu_uart_cmd:"g"
That tool only terminates lines with LF, not CR+LF.
Arguably the ChromeOS tool should be fixed. After all, officially kdb
seems to be designed such that CR+LF is the official line ending
transmitted over the wire and that internally a line ending is just
'\n' (LF). Some evidence:
* uart_poll_put_char(), which is used by kdb, notices a '\n' and
converts it to '\r\n'.
* kdb functions specifically use '\r' to get a carriage return without
a newline. You can see this in the pager where kdb will write a '\r'
and then write over the pager prompt.
However, all that being said there's no real harm in accepting LF as a
command terminator in the kdb parser and doing so seems like it would
improve compatibility. After this, I'd expect that things would work
OK-ish with a remote terminal that used any of CR, CR+LF, or LF as a
line ending. Someone using CR as a line ending might get some ugliness
where kdb wasn't able to overwrite the last line, but basic commands
would work. Someone using just LF as a line ending would probably also
work OK.
A few other notes:
- It can be noted that "bash" running on an "agetty" handles LF as a
line termination with no complaints.
- Historically, kdb's "pager" actually handled either CR or LF fine. A
very quick inspection would make one think that kdb's pager actually
could have paged down two lines instead of one for anyone using
CR+LF, but this is generally avoided because of kdb_input_flush().
- Conceivably one could argue that some of this special case logic
belongs in uart_poll_get_char() since uart_poll_put_char() handles
the '\n' => '\r\n' conversion. I would argue that perhaps we should
eventually do the opposite and move the '\n' => '\r\n' out of
uart_poll_put_char(). Having that conversion at such a low level
could interfere if we ever want to transfer binary data. In
addition, if we truly made uart_poll_get_char() the inverse of
uart_poll_put_char() it would convert back to '\n' and (ironically)
kdb's parser currently only looks for '\r' to find the end of a
command.
Signed-off-by: Douglas Anderson <dianders@chromium.org>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20230628125612.1.I5cc6c3d916195f5bcfdf5b75d823f2037707f5dc@changeid
Signed-off-by: Daniel Thompson <daniel.thompson@linaro.org>
The kdb_kbd_cleanup_state() is called from another file through
the kdb_private.h file, but that is not included before the
definition, causing a W=1 warning:
kernel/debug/kdb/kdb_keyboard.c:198:6: error: no previous prototype for 'kdb_kbd_cleanup_state' [-Werror=missing-prototypes]
Signed-off-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20230517124802.929751-1-arnd@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Daniel Thompson <daniel.thompson@linaro.org>
Pull modules updates from Luis Chamberlain:
- It was time to tidy up kernel/module.c and one way of starting with
that effort was to split it up into files. At my request Aaron Tomlin
spearheaded that effort with the goal to not introduce any functional
at all during that endeavour. The penalty for the split is +1322
bytes total, +112 bytes in data, +1210 bytes in text while bss is
unchanged. One of the benefits of this other than helping make the
code easier to read and review is summoning more help on review for
changes with livepatching so kernel/module/livepatch.c is now pegged
as maintained by the live patching folks.
The before and after with just the move on a defconfig on x86-64:
$ size kernel/module.o
text data bss dec hex filename
38434 4540 104 43078 a846 kernel/module.o
$ size -t kernel/module/*.o
text data bss dec hex filename
4785 120 0 4905 1329 kernel/module/kallsyms.o
28577 4416 104 33097 8149 kernel/module/main.o
1158 8 0 1166 48e kernel/module/procfs.o
902 108 0 1010 3f2 kernel/module/strict_rwx.o
3390 0 0 3390 d3e kernel/module/sysfs.o
832 0 0 832 340 kernel/module/tree_lookup.o
39644 4652 104 44400 ad70 (TOTALS)
- Aaron added module unload taint tracking (MODULE_UNLOAD_TAINT_TRACKING),
to enable tracking unloaded modules which did taint the kernel.
- Christophe Leroy added CONFIG_ARCH_WANTS_MODULES_DATA_IN_VMALLOC
which lets architectures to request having modules data in vmalloc
area instead of module area. There are three reasons why an
architecture might want this:
a) On some architectures (like book3s/32) it is not possible to
protect against execution on a page basis. The exec stuff can be
mapped by different arch segment sizes (on book3s/32 that is 256M
segments). By default the module area is in an Exec segment while
vmalloc area is in a NoExec segment. Using vmalloc lets you muck
with module data as NoExec on those architectures whereas before
you could not.
b) By pushing more module data to vmalloc you also increase the
probability of module text to remain within a closer distance
from kernel core text and this reduces trampolines, this has been
reported on arm first and powerpc folks are following that lead.
c) Free'ing module_alloc() (Exec by default) area leaves this
exposed as Exec by default, some architectures have some security
enhancements to set this as NoExec on free, and splitting module
data with text let's future generic special allocators be added
to the kernel without having developers try to grok the tribal
knowledge per arch. Work like Rick Edgecombe's permission vmalloc
interface [0] becomes easier to address over time.
[0] https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/20201120202426.18009-1-rick.p.edgecombe@intel.com/#r
- Masahiro Yamada's symbol search enhancements
* tag 'modules-5.19-rc1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/mcgrof/linux: (33 commits)
module: merge check_exported_symbol() into find_exported_symbol_in_section()
module: do not binary-search in __ksymtab_gpl if fsa->gplok is false
module: do not pass opaque pointer for symbol search
module: show disallowed symbol name for inherit_taint()
module: fix [e_shstrndx].sh_size=0 OOB access
module: Introduce module unload taint tracking
module: Move module_assert_mutex_or_preempt() to internal.h
module: Make module_flags_taint() accept a module's taints bitmap and usable outside core code
module.h: simplify MODULE_IMPORT_NS
powerpc: Select ARCH_WANTS_MODULES_DATA_IN_VMALLOC on book3s/32 and 8xx
module: Remove module_addr_min and module_addr_max
module: Add CONFIG_ARCH_WANTS_MODULES_DATA_IN_VMALLOC
module: Introduce data_layout
module: Prepare for handling several RB trees
module: Always have struct mod_tree_root
module: Rename debug_align() as strict_align()
module: Rework layout alignment to avoid BUG_ON()s
module: Move module_enable_x() and frob_text() in strict_rwx.c
module: Make module_enable_x() independent of CONFIG_ARCH_HAS_STRICT_MODULE_RWX
module: Move version support into a separate file
...
KGDB and KDB allow read and write access to kernel memory, and thus
should be restricted during lockdown. An attacker with access to a
serial port (for example, via a hypervisor console, which some cloud
vendors provide over the network) could trigger the debugger so it is
important that the debugger respect the lockdown mode when/if it is
triggered.
Fix this by integrating lockdown into kdb's existing permissions
mechanism. Unfortunately kgdb does not have any permissions mechanism
(although it certainly could be added later) so, for now, kgdb is simply
and brutally disabled by immediately exiting the gdb stub without taking
any action.
For lockdowns established early in the boot (e.g. the normal case) then
this should be fine but on systems where kgdb has set breakpoints before
the lockdown is enacted than "bad things" will happen.
CVE: CVE-2022-21499
Co-developed-by: Stephen Brennan <stephen.s.brennan@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: Stephen Brennan <stephen.s.brennan@oracle.com>
Reviewed-by: Douglas Anderson <dianders@chromium.org>
Signed-off-by: Daniel Thompson <daniel.thompson@linaro.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
No functional change.
This patch migrates the kdb 'lsmod' command support out of main
kdb code into its own file under kernel/module. In addition to
the above, a minor style warning i.e. missing a blank line after
declarations, was resolved too. The new file was added to
MAINTAINERS. Finally we remove linux/module.h as it is entirely
redundant.
Reviewed-by: Daniel Thompson <daniel.thompson@linaro.org>
Acked-by: Daniel Thompson <daniel.thompson@linaro.org>
Signed-off-by: Aaron Tomlin <atomlin@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Luis Chamberlain <mcgrof@kernel.org>
Currently kdb_putarea_size() uses copy_from_kernel_nofault() to write *to*
arbitrary kernel memory. This is obviously wrong and means the memory
modify ('mm') command is a serious risk to debugger stability: if we poke
to a bad address we'll double-fault and lose our debug session.
Fix this the (very) obvious way.
Note that there are two Fixes: tags because the API was renamed and this
patch will only trivially backport as far as the rename (and this is
probably enough). Nevertheless Christoph's rename did not introduce this
problem so I wanted to record that!
Fixes: fe557319aa ("maccess: rename probe_kernel_{read,write} to copy_{from,to}_kernel_nofault")
Fixes: 5d5314d679 ("kdb: core for kgdb back end (1 of 2)")
Signed-off-by: Daniel Thompson <daniel.thompson@linaro.org>
Reviewed-by: Douglas Anderson <dianders@chromium.org>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20220128144055.207267-1-daniel.thompson@linaro.org
Currently kdb contains some open-coded routines to generate a summary
character for each task. This code currently issues warnings, is
almost certainly broken and won't make sense to any kernel dev who
has ever used /proc to examine task states.
Fix both the warning and the potential for confusion by adopting the
scheduler's task classification. Whilst doing this we also simplify the
filtering by using mask strings directly (which means we don't have to
guess all the characters the scheduler might give us).
Unfortunately we can't quite match the scheduler classification completely.
We add four extra states: - for idle loops and i, m and s for sleeping
system daemons (which means kthreads in one of the I, M and S states).
These extra states are used to manage the filters for tools to make the
output of ps and bta less noisy.
Note: The Fixes below is the last point the original dubious code was
moved; it was not introduced by that patch. However it gives us
the last point to which this patch can be easily backported.
Happily that should be enough to cover the introduction of
CONFIG_WERROR!
Fixes: 2f064a59a1 ("sched: Change task_struct::state")
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20211102173158.3315227-1-daniel.thompson@linaro.org
Reviewed-by: Douglas Anderson <dianders@chromium.org>
Signed-off-by: Daniel Thompson <daniel.thompson@linaro.org>
Pull kgdb updates from Daniel Thompson:
"Changes for kgdb/kdb this cycle are dominated by a change from Sumit
that removes as small (256K) private heap from kdb. This is change
I've hoped for ever since I discovered how few users of this heap
remained in the kernel, so many thanks to Sumit for hunting these
down.
The other change is an incremental step towards SPDX headers"
* tag 'kgdb-5.15-rc1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/danielt/linux:
kernel: debug: Convert to SPDX identifier
kdb: Rename members of struct kdbtab_t
kdb: Simplify kdb_defcmd macro logic
kdb: Get rid of redundant kdb_register_flags()
kdb: Rename struct defcmd_set to struct kdb_macro
kdb: Get rid of custom debug heap allocator
Delete/fixup few includes in anticipation of global -isystem compile
option removal.
Note: crypto/aegis128-neon-inner.c keeps <stddef.h> due to redefinition
of uintptr_t error (one definition comes from <stddef.h>, another from
<linux/types.h>).
Signed-off-by: Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Masahiro Yamada <masahiroy@kernel.org>
Commit e4f291b3f7 ("kdb: Simplify kdb commands registration")
allowed registration of pre-allocated kdb commands with pointer to
struct kdbtab_t. Lets switch other users as well to register pre-
allocated kdb commands via:
- Changing prototype for kdb_register() to pass a pointer to struct
kdbtab_t instead.
- Embed kdbtab_t structure in kdb_macro_t rather than individual params.
With these changes kdb_register_flags() becomes redundant and hence
removed. Also, since we have switched all users to register
pre-allocated commands, "is_dynamic" flag in struct kdbtab_t becomes
redundant and hence removed as well.
Suggested-by: Daniel Thompson <daniel.thompson@linaro.org>
Signed-off-by: Sumit Garg <sumit.garg@linaro.org>
Acked-by: Steven Rostedt (VMware) <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Reviewed-by: Douglas Anderson <dianders@chromium.org>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20210712134620.276667-3-sumit.garg@linaro.org
Signed-off-by: Daniel Thompson <daniel.thompson@linaro.org>
Currently the only user for debug heap is kdbnearsym() which can be
modified to rather use statically allocated buffer for symbol name as
per it's current usage. So do that and hence remove custom debug heap
allocator.
Note that this change puts a restriction on kdbnearsym() callers to
carefully use shared namebuf such that a caller should consume the symbol
returned immediately prior to another call to fetch a different symbol.
Also, this change uses standard KSYM_NAME_LEN macro for namebuf
allocation instead of local variable: knt1_size which should avoid any
conflicts caused by changes to KSYM_NAME_LEN macro value.
This change has been tested using kgdbtest on arm64 which doesn't show
any regressions.
Suggested-by: Daniel Thompson <daniel.thompson@linaro.org>
Signed-off-by: Sumit Garg <sumit.garg@linaro.org>
Reviewed-by: Douglas Anderson <dianders@chromium.org>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20210714055620.369915-1-sumit.garg@linaro.org
Signed-off-by: Daniel Thompson <daniel.thompson@linaro.org>
Fix the following warning:
kernel/debug/gdbstub.c:1049:4: warning: fallthrough annotation in unreachable code [-Wimplicit-fallthrough]
fallthrough;
^
include/linux/compiler_attributes.h:210:41: note: expanded from macro 'fallthrough'
# define fallthrough __attribute__((__fallthrough__)
by placing the fallthrough; statement inside ifdeffery.
Reported-by: kernel test robot <lkp@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Gustavo A. R. Silva <gustavoars@kernel.org>
Pull kgdb updates from Daniel Thompson:
"This was a extremely quiet cycle for kgdb. This consists of two
patches that between them address spelling errors and a switch
fallthrough warning"
* tag 'kgdb-5.14-rc1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/danielt/linux:
kgdb: Fix fall-through warning for Clang
kgdb: Fix spelling mistakes
Pull printk updates from Petr Mladek:
- Add %pt[RT]s modifier to vsprintf(). It overrides ISO 8601 separator
by using ' ' (space). It produces "YYYY-mm-dd HH:MM:SS" instead of
"YYYY-mm-ddTHH:MM:SS".
- Correctly parse long row of numbers by sscanf() when using the field
width. Add extensive sscanf() selftest.
- Generalize re-entrant CPU lock that has already been used to
serialize dump_stack() output. It is part of the ongoing printk
rework. It will allow to remove the obsoleted printk_safe buffers and
introduce atomic consoles.
- Some code clean up and sparse warning fixes.
* tag 'printk-for-5.14' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/printk/linux:
printk: fix cpu lock ordering
lib/dump_stack: move cpu lock to printk.c
printk: Remove trailing semicolon in macros
random32: Fix implicit truncation warning in prandom_seed_state()
lib: test_scanf: Remove pointless use of type_min() with unsigned types
selftests: lib: Add wrapper script for test_scanf
lib: test_scanf: Add tests for sscanf number conversion
lib: vsprintf: Fix handling of number field widths in vsscanf
lib: vsprintf: scanf: Negative number must have field width > 1
usb: host: xhci-tegra: Switch to use %ptTs
nilfs2: Switch to use %ptTs
kdb: Switch to use %ptTs
lib/vsprintf: Allow to override ISO 8601 date and time separator
