Re: [Qemu-devel] bug report : kqemu and self-writing code

[Fabrice Bellard]

Are you sure that the bug is really in kqemu ? It is possible that your 
guest kernel implements a security system which prevents self modifying 
code using segment limits which QEMU does not check (but kqemu checks 
them !).

Regards,

Fabrice.

Even Rouault wrote:
> Guest OS : Linux 2.6.15-1.2054_FC5 i686 (Fedora Core 5 i386)
> Host OS: Linux 2.6.12-10-amd64-k8 #1 x86_64 (Ubuntu 5.10 amd64)
> QEMU Version : today CVS compiled with kqemu support
> KQEMU : 1.3.0pre6
> Binary used : qemu-system-x86-64 (so kqemu user-mode is used)
>
> I'm running the simple C code attached. With kqemu user-mode, this fails 
> (sigsegv) with the following warning in dmesg :
>
> audit(1146505373.813:12): avc:  denied { execheap } for pid=1860 
> comm="selfmodifying scontext=user_u:system_r:unconfined_t:s0 
> tcontext=user_u:system_r:unconfined_t:s0 tclass=process
> Erreur de segmentation
>
> Without kqemu enabled, it runs fine.
>
>
>
> ------------------------------------------------------------------------
>
> #define _XOPEN_SOURCE 600
> #include <sys/mman.h>
> #include <unistd.h>
> #include <stdlib.h>
> #include <stdio.h>
>
> int main(int argc, char** argv)
> {
>   int pagesize = getpagesize();
>   unsigned char* addr = NULL;
>   posix_memalign((void**)&addr, pagesize, pagesize);
>   mprotect(addr, pagesize, PROT_WRITE | PROT_READ | PROT_EXEC);
>   addr[0] = 0x8b; addr[1] = 0x44; addr[2] = 0x24; addr[3] = 0x04; /* mov    
> 0x4(%esp),%eax */
>   addr[4] = 0x83; addr[5] = 0xc0; addr[6] = 0x01; /* add    $0x1,%eax */
>   addr[7] = 0xc3; /* ret */
>   
>   printf("10+1=%d\n", ((int (*)(int))addr)(10));
>   free(addr);
>   return 0;
> }
>
>
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