CVE-2022-50635

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:

powerpc/kprobes: Fix null pointer reference in arch_prepare_kprobe()

I found a null pointer reference in arch_prepare_kprobe():

  # echo 'p cmdline_proc_show' > kprobe_events
  # echo 'p cmdline_proc_show+16' >> kprobe_events
  Kernel attempted to read user page (0) - exploit attempt? (uid: 0)
  BUG: Kernel NULL pointer dereference on read at 0x00000000
  Faulting instruction address: 0xc000000000050bfc
  Oops: Kernel access of bad area, sig: 11 [#1]
  LE PAGE_SIZE=64K MMU=Radix SMP NR_CPUS=2048 NUMA PowerNV
  Modules linked in:
  CPU: 0 PID: 122 Comm: sh Not tainted 6.0.0-rc3-00007-gdcf8e5633e2e #10
  NIP:  c000000000050bfc LR: c000000000050bec CTR: 0000000000005bdc
  REGS: c0000000348475b0 TRAP: 0300   Not tainted  (6.0.0-rc3-00007-gdcf8e5633e2e)
  MSR:  9000000000009033 <SF,HV,EE,ME,IR,DR,RI,LE>  CR: 88002444  XER: 20040006
  CFAR: c00000000022d100 DAR: 0000000000000000 DSISR: 40000000 IRQMASK: 0
  ...
  NIP arch_prepare_kprobe+0x10c/0x2d0
  LR  arch_prepare_kprobe+0xfc/0x2d0
  Call Trace:
    0xc0000000012f77a0 (unreliable)
    register_kprobe+0x3c0/0x7a0
    __register_trace_kprobe+0x140/0x1a0
    __trace_kprobe_create+0x794/0x1040
    trace_probe_create+0xc4/0xe0
    create_or_delete_trace_kprobe+0x2c/0x80
    trace_parse_run_command+0xf0/0x210
    probes_write+0x20/0x40
    vfs_write+0xfc/0x450
    ksys_write+0x84/0x140
    system_call_exception+0x17c/0x3a0
    system_call_vectored_common+0xe8/0x278
  --- interrupt: 3000 at 0x7fffa5682de0
  NIP:  00007fffa5682de0 LR: 0000000000000000 CTR: 0000000000000000
  REGS: c000000034847e80 TRAP: 3000   Not tainted  (6.0.0-rc3-00007-gdcf8e5633e2e)
  MSR:  900000000280f033 <SF,HV,VEC,VSX,EE,PR,FP,ME,IR,DR,RI,LE>  CR: 44002408  XER: 00000000

The address being probed has some special:

  cmdline_proc_show: Probe based on ftrace
  cmdline_proc_show+16: Probe for the next instruction at the ftrace location

The ftrace-based kprobe does not generate kprobe::ainsn::insn, it gets
set to NULL. In arch_prepare_kprobe() it will check for:

  ...
  prev = get_kprobe(p->addr - 1);
  preempt_enable_no_resched();
  if (prev && ppc_inst_prefixed(ppc_inst_read(prev->ainsn.insn))) {
  ...

If prev is based on ftrace, 'ppc_inst_read(prev->ainsn.insn)' will occur
with a null pointer reference. At this point prev->addr will not be a
prefixed instruction, so the check can be skipped.

Check if prev is ftrace-based kprobe before reading 'prev->ainsn.insn'
to fix this problem.

[mpe: Trim oops]