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authorJinke Han <jinkehan@didiglobal.com>2026-09-08 15:37:42 +0800
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x86/kprobes: Fix crash when probing CS CALL instructionsgrafted
When using eBPF to probe CS CALL instructions within a function, a crash can be triggered. The eBPF tool probes offset 257 of the __hrtimer_run_queues() function: <__hrtimer_run_queues+249>: nopl 0x0(%rax,%rax,1) <__hrtimer_run_queues+254>: mov %r14,%rdi <__hrtimer_run_queues+257>: cs call <__x86_indirect_thunk_r12> <__hrtimer_run_queues+263>: mov %eax,%r12d <__hrtimer_run_queues+266>: xchg %ax,%ax <__hrtimer_run_queues+268>: mov %r13,%rdi Which triggers this crash: BUG: unable to handle page fault for address: 00000000000f41c9 #PF: supervisor write access in kernel mode #PF: error_code(0x0002) - not-present page PGD 0 P4D 0 Oops: 0002 [#1] SMP NOPTI CPU: 1 PID: 0 Comm: swapper/1 Kdump: loaded Tainted: P RIP: 0010:__hrtimer_run_queues+0x106/0x230 Note that __hrtimer_run_queues+0x106 is __hrtimer_run_queues+262, which is at the 6th byte of the above CS CALL instruction. Since the CS CALL instruction occupies 6 bytes, the exception occurred in the middle of that call instruction. The root cause is that when using eBPF tools to probe in the middle of a function, a kprobe with INT3 is used as the underlying implementation. During single-step emulation of the original CALL instruction, int3_emulate_call() assumes that the probed CALL instruction is 5 bytes long. However, the actual CS-prefixed CALL instruction occupies 6 bytes, so it constructs an incorrect exception return address. When the CPU returns from the kprobe handler, the next instruction to be executed is at the address of the last byte of that CS CALL instruction. Coincidentally, starting from that address, the CPU fetches and decodes a completely different instruction, which ultimately triggers a kernel crash. Fix the issue by using the actual instruction length obtained from the instruction decoder when constructing the exception return address, rather than relying on the hardcoded CALL_INSN_SIZE macro. [ mingo: Refined the changelog ] Fixes: 6256e668b7af ("x86/kprobes: Use int3 instead of debug trap for single-step") Suggested-by: Masami Hiramatsu (Google) <mhiramat@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Jinke Han <jinkehan@didiglobal.com> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org> Reviewed-by: Masami Hiramatsu (Google) <mhiramat@kernel.org> Acked-by: Yafang Shao <laoar.shao@gmail.com> Acked-by: Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260908073742.GA10517@didi-ThinkCentre-M920t-N000
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+What: /sys/kernel/debug/powerpc/memtrace
+Date: Aug 2017
+KernelVersion: 4.14
+Contact: linuxppc-dev@lists.ozlabs.org
+Description: This folder contains the relevant debugfs files for the
+ hardware trace macro to use. CONFIG_PPC64_HARDWARE_TRACING
+ must be set.
+
+What: /sys/kernel/debug/powerpc/memtrace/enable
+Date: Aug 2017
+KernelVersion: 4.14
+Contact: linuxppc-dev@lists.ozlabs.org
+Description: Write an integer containing the size in bytes of the memory
+ you want removed from each NUMA node to this file - it must be
+ aligned to the memblock size. This amount of RAM will be removed
+ from each NUMA node in the kernel mappings and the following
+ debugfs files will be created. Once memory is successfully
+ removed from each node, the following files are created. To
+ re-add memory to the kernel, echo 0 into this file (it will be
+ automatically onlined).
+
+What: /sys/kernel/debug/powerpc/memtrace/<node-id>
+Date: Aug 2017
+KernelVersion: 4.14
+Contact: linuxppc-dev@lists.ozlabs.org
+Description: This directory contains information about the removed memory
+ from the specific NUMA node.
+
+What: /sys/kernel/debug/powerpc/memtrace/<node-id>/size
+Date: Aug 2017
+KernelVersion: 4.14
+Contact: linuxppc-dev@lists.ozlabs.org
+Description: This contains the size of the memory removed from the node.
+
+What: /sys/kernel/debug/powerpc/memtrace/<node-id>/start
+Date: Aug 2017
+KernelVersion: 4.14
+Contact: linuxppc-dev@lists.ozlabs.org
+Description: This contains the start address of the removed memory.
+
+What: /sys/kernel/debug/powerpc/memtrace/<node-id>/trace
+Date: Aug 2017
+KernelVersion: 4.14
+Contact: linuxppc-dev@lists.ozlabs.org
+Description: This is where the hardware trace macro will output the trace
+ it generates.