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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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+Parport
++++++++
+
+The ``parport`` code provides parallel-port support under Linux. This
+includes the ability to share one port between multiple device
+drivers.
+
+You can pass parameters to the ``parport`` code to override its automatic
+detection of your hardware. This is particularly useful if you want
+to use IRQs, since in general these can't be autoprobed successfully.
+By default IRQs are not used even if they **can** be probed. This is
+because there are a lot of people using the same IRQ for their
+parallel port and a sound card or network card.
+
+The ``parport`` code is split into two parts: generic (which deals with
+port-sharing) and architecture-dependent (which deals with actually
+using the port).
+
+
+Parport as modules
+==================
+
+If you load the `parport`` code as a module, say::
+
+ # insmod parport
+
+to load the generic ``parport`` code. You then must load the
+architecture-dependent code with (for example)::
+
+ # insmod parport_pc io=0x3bc,0x378,0x278 irq=none,7,auto
+
+to tell the ``parport`` code that you want three PC-style ports, one at
+0x3bc with no IRQ, one at 0x378 using IRQ 7, and one at 0x278 with an
+auto-detected IRQ. Currently, PC-style (``parport_pc``), Sun ``bpp``,
+Amiga, Atari, and MFC3 hardware is supported.
+
+PCI parallel I/O card support comes from ``parport_pc``. Base I/O
+addresses should not be specified for supported PCI cards since they
+are automatically detected.
+
+
+modprobe
+--------
+
+If you use modprobe , you will find it useful to add lines as below to a
+configuration file in /etc/modprobe.d/ directory::
+
+ alias parport_lowlevel parport_pc
+ options parport_pc io=0x378,0x278 irq=7,auto
+
+modprobe will load ``parport_pc`` (with the options ``io=0x378,0x278 irq=7,auto``)
+whenever a parallel port device driver (such as ``lp``) is loaded.
+
+Note that these are example lines only! You shouldn't in general need
+to specify any options to ``parport_pc`` in order to be able to use a
+parallel port.
+
+
+Parport probe [optional]
+------------------------
+
+In 2.2 kernels there was a module called ``parport_probe``, which was used
+for collecting IEEE 1284 device ID information. This has now been
+enhanced and now lives with the IEEE 1284 support. When a parallel
+port is detected, the devices that are connected to it are analysed,
+and information is logged like this::
+
+ parport0: Printer, BJC-210 (Canon)
+
+The probe information is available from files in ``/proc/sys/dev/parport/``.
+
+
+Parport linked into the kernel statically
+=========================================
+
+If you compile the ``parport`` code into the kernel, then you can use
+kernel boot parameters to get the same effect. Add something like the
+following to your LILO command line::
+
+ parport=0x3bc parport=0x378,7 parport=0x278,auto,nofifo
+
+You can have many ``parport=...`` statements, one for each port you want
+to add. Adding ``parport=0`` to the kernel command-line will disable
+parport support entirely. Adding ``parport=auto`` to the kernel
+command-line will make ``parport`` use any IRQ lines or DMA channels that
+it auto-detects.
+
+
+Files in /proc
+==============
+
+If you have configured the ``/proc`` filesystem into your kernel, you will
+see a new directory entry: ``/proc/sys/dev/parport``. In there will be a
+directory entry for each parallel port for which parport is
+configured. In each of those directories are a collection of files
+describing that parallel port.
+
+The ``/proc/sys/dev/parport`` directory tree looks like::
+
+ parport
+ |-- default
+ | |-- spintime
+ | `-- timeslice
+ |-- parport0
+ | |-- autoprobe
+ | |-- autoprobe0
+ | |-- autoprobe1
+ | |-- autoprobe2
+ | |-- autoprobe3
+ | |-- devices
+ | | |-- active
+ | | `-- lp
+ | | `-- timeslice
+ | |-- base-addr
+ | |-- irq
+ | |-- dma
+ | |-- modes
+ | `-- spintime
+ `-- parport1
+ |-- autoprobe
+ |-- autoprobe0
+ |-- autoprobe1
+ |-- autoprobe2
+ |-- autoprobe3
+ |-- devices
+ | |-- active
+ | `-- ppa
+ | `-- timeslice
+ |-- base-addr
+ |-- irq
+ |-- dma
+ |-- modes
+ `-- spintime
+
+.. tabularcolumns:: |p{4.0cm}|p{13.5cm}|
+
+======================= =======================================================
+File Contents
+======================= =======================================================
+``devices/active`` A list of the device drivers using that port. A "+"
+ will appear by the name of the device currently using
+ the port (it might not appear against any). The
+ string "none" means that there are no device drivers
+ using that port.
+
+``base-addr`` Parallel port's base address, or addresses if the port
+ has more than one in which case they are separated
+ with tabs. These values might not have any sensible
+ meaning for some ports.
+
+``irq`` Parallel port's IRQ, or -1 if none is being used.
+
+``dma`` Parallel port's DMA channel, or -1 if none is being
+ used.
+
+``modes`` Parallel port's hardware modes, comma-separated,
+ meaning:
+
+ - PCSPP
+ PC-style SPP registers are available.
+
+ - TRISTATE
+ Port is bidirectional.
+
+ - COMPAT
+ Hardware acceleration for printers is
+ available and will be used.
+
+ - EPP
+ Hardware acceleration for EPP protocol
+ is available and will be used.
+
+ - ECP
+ Hardware acceleration for ECP protocol
+ is available and will be used.
+
+ - DMA
+ DMA is available and will be used.
+
+ Note that the current implementation will only take
+ advantage of COMPAT and ECP modes if it has an IRQ
+ line to use.
+
+``autoprobe`` Any IEEE-1284 device ID information that has been
+ acquired from the (non-IEEE 1284.3) device.
+
+``autoprobe[0-3]`` IEEE 1284 device ID information retrieved from
+ daisy-chain devices that conform to IEEE 1284.3.
+
+``spintime`` The number of microseconds to busy-loop while waiting
+ for the peripheral to respond. You might find that
+ adjusting this improves performance, depending on your
+ peripherals. This is a port-wide setting, i.e. it
+ applies to all devices on a particular port.
+
+``timeslice`` The number of milliseconds that a device driver is
+ allowed to keep a port claimed for. This is advisory,
+ and driver can ignore it if it must.
+
+``default/*`` The defaults for spintime and timeslice. When a new
+ port is registered, it picks up the default spintime.
+ When a new device is registered, it picks up the
+ default timeslice.
+======================= =======================================================
+
+Device drivers
+==============
+
+Once the parport code is initialised, you can attach device drivers to
+specific ports. Normally this happens automatically; if the lp driver
+is loaded it will create one lp device for each port found. You can
+override this, though, by using parameters either when you load the lp
+driver::
+
+ # insmod lp parport=0,2
+
+or on the LILO command line::
+
+ lp=parport0 lp=parport2
+
+Both the above examples would inform lp that you want ``/dev/lp0`` to be
+the first parallel port, and /dev/lp1 to be the **third** parallel port,
+with no lp device associated with the second port (parport1). Note
+that this is different to the way older kernels worked; there used to
+be a static association between the I/O port address and the device
+name, so ``/dev/lp0`` was always the port at 0x3bc. This is no longer the
+case - if you only have one port, it will default to being ``/dev/lp0``,
+regardless of base address.
+
+Also:
+
+ * If you selected the IEEE 1284 support at compile time, you can say
+ ``lp=auto`` on the kernel command line, and lp will create devices
+ only for those ports that seem to have printers attached.
+
+ * If you give PLIP the ``timid`` parameter, either with ``plip=timid`` on
+ the command line, or with ``insmod plip timid=1`` when using modules,
+ it will avoid any ports that seem to be in use by other devices.
+
+ * IRQ autoprobing works only for a few port types at the moment.
+
+Reporting printer problems with parport
+=======================================
+
+If you are having problems printing, please go through these steps to
+try to narrow down where the problem area is.
+
+When reporting problems with parport, really you need to give all of
+the messages that ``parport_pc`` spits out when it initialises. There are
+several code paths:
+
+- polling
+- interrupt-driven, protocol in software
+- interrupt-driven, protocol in hardware using PIO
+- interrupt-driven, protocol in hardware using DMA
+
+The kernel messages that ``parport_pc`` logs give an indication of which
+code path is being used. (They could be a lot better actually..)
+
+For normal printer protocol, having IEEE 1284 modes enabled or not
+should not make a difference.
+
+To turn off the 'protocol in hardware' code paths, disable
+``CONFIG_PARPORT_PC_FIFO``. Note that when they are enabled they are not
+necessarily **used**; it depends on whether the hardware is available,
+enabled by the BIOS, and detected by the driver.
+
+So, to start with, disable ``CONFIG_PARPORT_PC_FIFO``, and load ``parport_pc``
+with ``irq=none``. See if printing works then. It really should,
+because this is the simplest code path.
+
+If that works fine, try with ``io=0x378 irq=7`` (adjust for your
+hardware), to make it use interrupt-driven in-software protocol.
+
+If **that** works fine, then one of the hardware modes isn't working
+right. Enable ``CONFIG_FIFO`` (no, it isn't a module option,
+and yes, it should be), set the port to ECP mode in the BIOS and note
+the DMA channel, and try with::
+
+ io=0x378 irq=7 dma=none (for PIO)
+ io=0x378 irq=7 dma=3 (for DMA)
+
+----------
+
+philb@gnu.org
+tim@cyberelk.net