From patchwork Tue Jan 29 00:34:09 2019 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Patchwork-Submitter: "Edgecombe, Rick P" X-Patchwork-Id: 10785227 Return-Path: Received: from mail.wl.linuxfoundation.org (pdx-wl-mail.web.codeaurora.org [172.30.200.125]) by pdx-korg-patchwork-2.web.codeaurora.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id DC4A56C2 for ; Tue, 29 Jan 2019 00:40:53 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail.wl.linuxfoundation.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by mail.wl.linuxfoundation.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id CB0202B895 for ; Tue, 29 Jan 2019 00:40:53 +0000 (UTC) Received: by mail.wl.linuxfoundation.org (Postfix, from userid 486) id BE8052B882; Tue, 29 Jan 2019 00:40:53 +0000 (UTC) X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.3.1 (2010-03-16) on pdx-wl-mail.web.codeaurora.org X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-5.2 required=2.0 tests=BAYES_00,MAILING_LIST_MULTI, RCVD_IN_DNSWL_MED autolearn=ham version=3.3.1 Received: from mother.openwall.net (mother.openwall.net [195.42.179.200]) by mail.wl.linuxfoundation.org (Postfix) with SMTP id DBAFC2B869 for ; Tue, 29 Jan 2019 00:40:52 +0000 (UTC) Received: (qmail 29763 invoked by uid 550); 29 Jan 2019 00:39:32 -0000 Mailing-List: contact kernel-hardening-help@lists.openwall.com; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-ID: Delivered-To: mailing list kernel-hardening@lists.openwall.com Received: (qmail 29703 invoked from network); 29 Jan 2019 00:39:30 -0000 X-Amp-Result: SKIPPED(no attachment in message) X-Amp-File-Uploaded: False X-ExtLoop1: 1 X-IronPort-AV: E=Sophos;i="5.56,535,1539673200"; d="scan'208";a="133921904" From: Rick Edgecombe To: Andy Lutomirski , Ingo Molnar Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, x86@kernel.org, hpa@zytor.com, Thomas Gleixner , Borislav Petkov , Nadav Amit , Dave Hansen , Peter Zijlstra , linux_dti@icloud.com, linux-integrity@vger.kernel.org, linux-security-module@vger.kernel.org, akpm@linux-foundation.org, kernel-hardening@lists.openwall.com, linux-mm@kvack.org, will.deacon@arm.com, ard.biesheuvel@linaro.org, kristen@linux.intel.com, deneen.t.dock@intel.com, Nadav Amit , Rick Edgecombe Subject: [PATCH v2 07/20] x86/kgdb: avoid redundant comparison of patched code Date: Mon, 28 Jan 2019 16:34:09 -0800 Message-Id: <20190129003422.9328-8-rick.p.edgecombe@intel.com> X-Mailer: git-send-email 2.17.1 In-Reply-To: <20190129003422.9328-1-rick.p.edgecombe@intel.com> References: <20190129003422.9328-1-rick.p.edgecombe@intel.com> X-Virus-Scanned: ClamAV using ClamSMTP From: Nadav Amit text_poke() already ensures that the written value is the correct one and fails if that is not the case. There is no need for an additional comparison. Remove it. Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) Signed-off-by: Nadav Amit Signed-off-by: Rick Edgecombe --- arch/x86/kernel/kgdb.c | 14 +------------- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 13 deletions(-) diff --git a/arch/x86/kernel/kgdb.c b/arch/x86/kernel/kgdb.c index 1461544cba8b..057af9187a04 100644 --- a/arch/x86/kernel/kgdb.c +++ b/arch/x86/kernel/kgdb.c @@ -746,7 +746,6 @@ void kgdb_arch_set_pc(struct pt_regs *regs, unsigned long ip) int kgdb_arch_set_breakpoint(struct kgdb_bkpt *bpt) { int err; - char opc[BREAK_INSTR_SIZE]; bpt->type = BP_BREAKPOINT; err = probe_kernel_read(bpt->saved_instr, (char *)bpt->bpt_addr, @@ -765,11 +764,6 @@ int kgdb_arch_set_breakpoint(struct kgdb_bkpt *bpt) return -EBUSY; text_poke_kgdb((void *)bpt->bpt_addr, arch_kgdb_ops.gdb_bpt_instr, BREAK_INSTR_SIZE); - err = probe_kernel_read(opc, (char *)bpt->bpt_addr, BREAK_INSTR_SIZE); - if (err) - return err; - if (memcmp(opc, arch_kgdb_ops.gdb_bpt_instr, BREAK_INSTR_SIZE)) - return -EINVAL; bpt->type = BP_POKE_BREAKPOINT; return err; @@ -777,9 +771,6 @@ int kgdb_arch_set_breakpoint(struct kgdb_bkpt *bpt) int kgdb_arch_remove_breakpoint(struct kgdb_bkpt *bpt) { - int err; - char opc[BREAK_INSTR_SIZE]; - if (bpt->type != BP_POKE_BREAKPOINT) goto knl_write; /* @@ -790,10 +781,7 @@ int kgdb_arch_remove_breakpoint(struct kgdb_bkpt *bpt) goto knl_write; text_poke_kgdb((void *)bpt->bpt_addr, bpt->saved_instr, BREAK_INSTR_SIZE); - err = probe_kernel_read(opc, (char *)bpt->bpt_addr, BREAK_INSTR_SIZE); - if (err || memcmp(opc, bpt->saved_instr, BREAK_INSTR_SIZE)) - goto knl_write; - return err; + return 0; knl_write: return probe_kernel_write((char *)bpt->bpt_addr,