-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA512 ============================================================================= FreeBSD-EN-19:06.dtrace Errata Notice The FreeBSD Project Topic: DTrace incompatibility with SMAP-enabled systems Category: core Module: dtrace Announced: 2019-02-05 Credits: Mateusz Guzik Affects: FreeBSD 12.0 Corrected: 2018-12-19 23:29:44 UTC (stable/12, 12.0-STABLE) 2019-02-05 17:54:09 UTC (releng/12.0, 12.0-RELEASE-p3) For general information regarding FreeBSD Errata Notices and Security Advisories, including descriptions of the fields above, security branches, and the following sections, please visit . I. Background DTrace is a dynamic tracing framework that can be used to analyze the kernel and userspace applications in various ways. II. Problem Description When tracing userspace applications, the kernel component of DTrace may need to access userspace memory. With the addition of SMAP support to the amd64 kernel, the kernel is not able to arbitrarily access userspace memory: it must set a CPU flag to enable access. The code used by DTrace to perform such accesses was not updated accordingly. III. Impact The problem means that certain DTrace actions do not work on SMAP-enabled systems. This does not affect the application being traced. IV. Workaround No workaround is available. V. Solution Perform one of the following: 1) Upgrade your system to a supported FreeBSD stable or release / security branch (releng) dated after the correction date and reboot. 2) To update your system via a binary patch: Systems running a RELEASE version of FreeBSD on the i386 or amd64 platforms can be updated via the freebsd-update(8) utility: # freebsd-update fetch # freebsd-update install # shutdown -r +30 "Rebooting for errata update" 3) To update your system via a source code patch: The following patches have been verified to apply to the applicable FreeBSD release branches. a) Download the relevant patch from the location below, and verify the detached PGP signature using your PGP utility. # fetch https://security.FreeBSD.org/patches/EN-19:06/dtrace.patch # fetch https://security.FreeBSD.org/patches/EN-19:06/dtrace.patch.asc # gpg --verify dtrace.patch.asc b) Apply the patch. Execute the following commands as root: # cd /usr/src # patch < /path/to/patch c) Recompile your kernel as described in and reboot the system. VI. Correction details The following list contains the correction revision numbers for each affected branch. Branch/path Revision - ------------------------------------------------------------------------- stable/12/ r342267 releng/12.0/ r343783 - ------------------------------------------------------------------------- To see which files were modified by a particular revision, run the following command, replacing NNNNNN with the revision number, on a machine with Subversion installed: # svn diff -cNNNNNN --summarize svn://svn.freebsd.org/base Or visit the following URL, replacing NNNNNN with the revision number: VII. References The latest revision of this advisory is available at -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- iQKTBAEBCgB9FiEE/A6HiuWv54gCjWNV05eS9J6n5cIFAlxZ1WhfFIAAAAAALgAo aXNzdWVyLWZwckBub3RhdGlvbnMub3BlbnBncC5maWZ0aGhvcnNlbWFuLm5ldEZD MEU4NzhBRTVBRkU3ODgwMjhENjM1NUQzOTc5MkY0OUVBN0U1QzIACgkQ05eS9J6n 5cLzHA/+MVR5AHgEorzgRkpiqRzSlmbE6VyhF07lgY5CvRLFGp4mUbspZICcwtk5 ZOeA8MuDFiLo1p6Fo2JykJ25ipxM+cCbMlx4jO5lILwq40bYfejHiYrmC/gdfR7/ YcuNR3DpCw4llYIXFAcyw7SXG92jYNi9kKOSol7Fji8Zq2qDTSWTFqKsoJ2Pk3rJ LfiQaekux00JlY3TOyt6QtPWSdlkhM4WAITWp4pUkGuNT/nIA2iED5N2ohgSraxa dtBp/r8BHHbwog9wOQEHPIRN/Di7Kv02CZk13zJySmV+yZiPlR0YWZ4gI6i69cyD rqTfO9kU2yjaqSBIFKMuGGysswZq7ii/+cULHuHVdJLuHDdh/9jZuI9O8VujGqVh rU8THFHOtli/nGXNdPQP3jn84SDH7jPr1SgcFv1s3/FPHXVfZW9Uq558G9ZDujgg pAtwMYiixMHpNr+j7qJr6DCTh22BR7FjYQg1iPVzIzgTYJ+I6ZH/cexVxXOS2S4T O793AjmvOVaXsWB7tzhewTKVBam3upbRH7WmTMdD9z6dIlWtl6xKSgHvyarHVHpA /y5H3VcK4suh/NIHlD+ln/hooFtmPIxsJnmInaXKq7Eg/C9mQx3x7h7qQFvWffD8 cHOVGf3LCrH76unfc7AI7YafnD67Tgm09/sbgjVnScEpVW4E6Pc= =3+kY -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----