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| author | Jinke Han <jinkehan@didiglobal.com> | 2026-09-08 15:37:42 +0800 |
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| committer | Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org> | 2026-09-17 09:48:42 +0200 |
| commit | a5f7a5bb3b7f28ba7e4fa246775b29a0e5537255 (patch) | |
| tree | 73fef824f9a846cf935869d0dbc5070ef6e2f741 /Documentation/driver-api/generic_pt.rst | |
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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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diff --git a/Documentation/driver-api/generic_pt.rst b/Documentation/driver-api/generic_pt.rst new file mode 100644 index 000000000..fd29d1b52 --- /dev/null +++ b/Documentation/driver-api/generic_pt.rst @@ -0,0 +1,137 @@ +.. SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0 + +======================== +Generic Radix Page Table +======================== + +.. kernel-doc:: include/linux/generic_pt/common.h + :doc: Generic Radix Page Table + +.. kernel-doc:: drivers/iommu/generic_pt/pt_defs.h + :doc: Generic Page Table Language + +Usage +===== + +Generic PT is structured as a multi-compilation system. Since each format +provides an API using a common set of names there can be only one format active +within a compilation unit. This design avoids function pointers around the low +level API. + +Instead the function pointers can end up at the higher level API (i.e. +map/unmap, etc.) and the per-format code can be directly inlined into the +per-format compilation unit. For something like IOMMU each format will be +compiled into a per-format IOMMU operations kernel module. + +For this to work the .c file for each compilation unit will include both the +format headers and the generic code for the implementation. For instance in an +implementation compilation unit the headers would normally be included as +follows: + +generic_pt/fmt/iommu_amdv1.c:: + + #include <linux/generic_pt/common.h> + #include "defs_amdv1.h" + #include "../pt_defs.h" + #include "amdv1.h" + #include "../pt_common.h" + #include "../pt_iter.h" + #include "../iommu_pt.h" /* The IOMMU implementation */ + +iommu_pt.h includes definitions that will generate the operations functions for +map/unmap/etc. using the definitions provided by AMDv1. The resulting module +will have exported symbols named like pt_iommu_amdv1_init(). + +Refer to drivers/iommu/generic_pt/fmt/iommu_template.h for an example of how the +IOMMU implementation uses multi-compilation to generate per-format ops structs +pointers. + +The format code is written so that the common names arise from #defines to +distinct format specific names. This is intended to aid debuggability by +avoiding symbol clashes across all the different formats. + +Exported symbols and other global names are mangled using a per-format string +via the NS() helper macro. + +The format uses struct pt_common as the top-level struct for the table, +and each format will have its own struct pt_xxx which embeds it to store +format-specific information. + +The implementation will further wrap struct pt_common in its own top-level +struct, such as struct pt_iommu_amdv1. + +Format functions at the struct pt_common level +---------------------------------------------- + +.. kernel-doc:: include/linux/generic_pt/common.h + :identifiers: +.. kernel-doc:: drivers/iommu/generic_pt/pt_common.h + +Iteration Helpers +----------------- + +.. kernel-doc:: drivers/iommu/generic_pt/pt_iter.h + +Writing a Format +---------------- + +It is best to start from a simple format that is similar to the target. x86_64 +is usually a good reference for something simple, and AMDv1 is something fairly +complete. + +The required inline functions need to be implemented in the format header. +These should all follow the standard pattern of:: + + static inline pt_oaddr_t amdv1pt_entry_oa(const struct pt_state *pts) + { + [..] + } + #define pt_entry_oa amdv1pt_entry_oa + +where a uniquely named per-format inline function provides the implementation +and a define maps it to the generic name. This is intended to make debug symbols +work better. inline functions should always be used as the prototypes in +pt_common.h will cause the compiler to validate the function signature to +prevent errors. + +Review pt_fmt_defaults.h to understand some of the optional inlines. + +Once the format compiles then it should be run through the generic page table +kunit test in kunit_generic_pt.h using kunit. For example:: + + $ tools/testing/kunit/kunit.py run --build_dir build_kunit_x86_64 --arch x86_64 --kunitconfig ./drivers/iommu/generic_pt/.kunitconfig amdv1_fmt_test.* + [...] + [11:15:08] Testing complete. Ran 9 tests: passed: 9 + [11:15:09] Elapsed time: 3.137s total, 0.001s configuring, 2.368s building, 0.311s running + +The generic tests are intended to prove out the format functions and give +clearer failures to speed up finding the problems. Once those pass then the +entire kunit suite should be run. + +IOMMU Invalidation Features +--------------------------- + +Invalidation is how the page table algorithms synchronize with a HW cache of the +page table memory, typically called the TLB (or IOTLB for IOMMU cases). + +The TLB can store present PTEs, non-present PTEs and table pointers, depending +on its design. Every HW has its own approach on how to describe what has changed +to have changed items removed from the TLB. + +PT_FEAT_FLUSH_RANGE +~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ + +PT_FEAT_FLUSH_RANGE is the easiest scheme to understand. It tries to generate a +single range invalidation for each operation, over-invalidating if there are +gaps of VA that don't need invalidation. This trades off impacted VA for number +of invalidation operations. It does not keep track of what is being invalidated; +however, if pages have to be freed then page table pointers have to be cleaned +from the walk cache. The range can start/end at any page boundary. + +PT_FEAT_FLUSH_RANGE_NO_GAPS +~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ + +PT_FEAT_FLUSH_RANGE_NO_GAPS is similar to PT_FEAT_FLUSH_RANGE; however, it tries +to minimize the amount of impacted VA by issuing extra flush operations. This is +useful if the cost of processing VA is very high, for instance because a +hypervisor is processing the page table with a shadowing algorithm. |
