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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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+=================================================
+The Linux kernel user's and administrator's guide
+=================================================
+
+The following is a collection of user-oriented documents that have been
+added to the kernel over time. There is, as yet, little overall order or
+organization here — this material was not written to be a single, coherent
+document! With luck things will improve quickly over time.
+
+General guides to kernel administration
+---------------------------------------
+
+This initial section contains overall information, including the README
+file describing the kernel as a whole, documentation on kernel parameters,
+etc.
+
+.. toctree::
+ :maxdepth: 1
+
+ README
+ devices
+
+ features
+
+A big part of the kernel's administrative interface is the /proc and sysfs
+virtual filesystems; these documents describe how to interact with tem
+
+.. toctree::
+ :maxdepth: 1
+
+ sysfs-rules
+ sysctl/index
+ cputopology
+ abi
+
+Security-related documentation:
+
+.. toctree::
+ :maxdepth: 1
+
+ hw-vuln/index
+ LSM/index
+ perf-security
+
+Booting the kernel
+------------------
+
+.. toctree::
+ :maxdepth: 1
+
+ bootconfig
+ kernel-parameters
+ efi-stub
+ initrd
+
+
+Tracking down and identifying problems
+--------------------------------------
+
+Here is a set of documents aimed at users who are trying to track down
+problems and bugs in particular.
+
+.. toctree::
+ :maxdepth: 1
+
+ reporting-issues
+ reporting-regressions
+ quickly-build-trimmed-linux
+ verify-bugs-and-bisect-regressions
+ bug-hunting
+ bug-bisect
+ tainted-kernels
+ ramoops
+ dynamic-debug-howto
+ init
+ kdump/index
+ perf/index
+ pstore-blk
+ clearing-warn-once
+ kernel-per-CPU-kthreads
+ lockup-watchdogs
+ RAS/index
+ sysrq
+
+
+Core-kernel subsystems
+----------------------
+
+These documents describe core-kernel administration interfaces that are
+likely to be of interest on almost any system.
+
+.. toctree::
+ :maxdepth: 1
+
+ cgroup-v2
+ cgroup-v1/index
+ cpu-isolation
+ cpu-load
+ mm/index
+ module-signing
+ namespaces/index
+ numastat
+ pm/index
+ syscall-user-dispatch
+
+Support for non-native binary formats. Note that some of these
+documents are ... old ...
+
+.. toctree::
+ :maxdepth: 1
+
+ binfmt-misc
+ java
+ mono
+
+
+Block-layer and filesystem administration
+-----------------------------------------
+
+.. toctree::
+ :maxdepth: 1
+
+ bcache
+ binderfs
+ blockdev/index
+ cifs/index
+ device-mapper/index
+ ext4
+ filesystem-monitoring
+ nfs/index
+ iostats
+ jfs
+ md
+ ufs
+ xfs
+
+Device-specific guides
+----------------------
+
+How to configure your hardware within your Linux system.
+
+.. toctree::
+ :maxdepth: 1
+
+ acpi/index
+ aoe/index
+ auxdisplay/index
+ braille-console
+ btmrvl
+ dell_rbu
+ edid
+ gpio/index
+ hw_random
+ laptops/index
+ lcd-panel-cgram
+ media/index
+ nvme-multipath
+ parport
+ pnp
+ rapidio
+ rtc
+ serial-console
+ svga
+ thermal/index
+ thunderbolt
+ vga-softcursor
+ video-output
+
+Workload analysis
+-----------------
+
+This is the beginning of a section with information of interest to
+application developers and system integrators doing analysis of the
+Linux kernel for safety critical applications. Documents supporting
+analysis of kernel interactions with applications, and key kernel
+subsystems expectations will be found here.
+
+.. toctree::
+ :maxdepth: 1
+
+ workload-tracing
+
+Everything else
+---------------
+
+A few hard-to-categorize and generally obsolete documents.
+
+.. toctree::
+ :maxdepth: 1
+
+ ldm
+ unicode