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[PATCH] kprobes: bad manupilation of 2 byte opcode on x86_64


Hi Andi and Andrew,

I found a bug of kprobes on x86_64.
I attached the fix of this bug.


Problem:

If we put a probe onto a callq instruction and the probe
is executed, kernel panic of Bad RIP value occurs.

Root cause:

If resume_execution() found 0xff at first byte of 
p->ainsn.insn, it must check the _second_ byte.
But current resume_execution check _first_ byte again.


I changed it checks second byte of p->ainsn.insn.

Kprobes on i386 don't have this problem, because
the implementation is a little bit different from
x86_64.


Regards,

Satoshi Oshima
Hitachi Computer Product (America) Inc.

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diff -Narup linux-2.6.17-rc3-mm1.orig/arch/x86_64/kernel/kprobes.c x86_64_bugifx/arch/x86_64/kernel/kprobes.c
--- linux-2.6.17-rc3-mm1.orig/arch/x86_64/kernel/kprobes.c	2006-05-04 12:34:44.000000000 -0400
+++ x86_64_bugifx/arch/x86_64/kernel/kprobes.c	2006-05-12 16:02:35.000000000 -0400
@@ -514,13 +514,13 @@ static void __kprobes resume_execution(s
 		*tos = orig_rip + (*tos - copy_rip);
 		break;
 	case 0xff:
-		if ((*insn & 0x30) == 0x10) {
+		if ((insn[1] & 0x30) == 0x10) {
 			/* call absolute, indirect */
 			/* Fix return addr; rip is correct. */
 			next_rip = regs->rip;
 			*tos = orig_rip + (*tos - copy_rip);
-		} else if (((*insn & 0x31) == 0x20) ||	/* jmp near, absolute indirect */
-			   ((*insn & 0x31) == 0x21)) {	/* jmp far, absolute indirect */
+		} else if (((insn[1] & 0x31) == 0x20) ||	/* jmp near, absolute indirect */
+			   ((insn[1] & 0x31) == 0x21)) {	/* jmp far, absolute indirect */
 			/* rip is correct. */
 			next_rip = regs->rip;
 		}


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