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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/hte | |
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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
Diffstat (limited to 'Documentation/driver-api/hte')
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/driver-api/hte/hte.rst | 79 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/driver-api/hte/index.rst | 22 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/driver-api/hte/tegra-hte.rst | 47 |
3 files changed, 148 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/driver-api/hte/hte.rst b/Documentation/driver-api/hte/hte.rst new file mode 100644 index 000000000..153f3233c --- /dev/null +++ b/Documentation/driver-api/hte/hte.rst @@ -0,0 +1,79 @@ +.. SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0+ + +============================================ +The Linux Hardware Timestamping Engine (HTE) +============================================ + +:Author: Dipen Patel + +Introduction +------------ + +Certain devices have built in hardware timestamping engines which can +monitor sets of system signals, lines, buses etc... in realtime for state +change; upon detecting the change they can automatically store the timestamp at +the moment of occurrence. Such functionality may help achieve better accuracy +in obtaining timestamps than using software counterparts i.e. ktime and +friends. + +This document describes the API that can be used by hardware timestamping +engine provider and consumer drivers that want to use the hardware timestamping +engine (HTE) framework. Both consumers and providers must include +``#include <linux/hte.h>``. + +The HTE framework APIs for the providers +---------------------------------------- + +.. kernel-doc:: drivers/hte/hte.c + :functions: devm_hte_register_chip hte_push_ts_ns + +The HTE framework APIs for the consumers +---------------------------------------- + +.. kernel-doc:: drivers/hte/hte.c + :functions: hte_init_line_attr hte_ts_get hte_ts_put devm_hte_request_ts_ns hte_request_ts_ns hte_enable_ts hte_disable_ts of_hte_req_count hte_get_clk_src_info + +The HTE framework public structures +----------------------------------- +.. kernel-doc:: include/linux/hte.h + +More on the HTE timestamp data +------------------------------ +The ``struct hte_ts_data`` is used to pass timestamp details between the +consumers and the providers. It expresses timestamp data in nanoseconds in +u64. An example of the typical timestamp data life cycle, for the GPIO line is +as follows:: + + - Monitors GPIO line change. + - Detects the state change on GPIO line. + - Converts timestamps in nanoseconds. + - Stores GPIO raw level in raw_level variable if the provider has that + hardware capability. + - Pushes this hte_ts_data object to HTE subsystem. + - HTE subsystem increments seq counter and invokes consumer provided callback. + Based on callback return value, the HTE core invokes secondary callback in + the thread context. + +HTE subsystem debugfs attributes +-------------------------------- +HTE subsystem creates debugfs attributes at ``/sys/kernel/debug/hte/``. +It also creates line/signal-related debugfs attributes at +``/sys/kernel/debug/hte/<provider>/<label or line id>/``. Note that these +attributes are read-only. + +`ts_requested` + The total number of entities requested from the given provider, + where entity is specified by the provider and could represent + lines, GPIO, chip signals, buses etc... + The attribute will be available at + ``/sys/kernel/debug/hte/<provider>/``. + +`total_ts` + The total number of entities supported by the provider. + The attribute will be available at + ``/sys/kernel/debug/hte/<provider>/``. + +`dropped_timestamps` + The dropped timestamps for a given line. + The attribute will be available at + ``/sys/kernel/debug/hte/<provider>/<label or line id>/``. diff --git a/Documentation/driver-api/hte/index.rst b/Documentation/driver-api/hte/index.rst new file mode 100644 index 000000000..29011de9a --- /dev/null +++ b/Documentation/driver-api/hte/index.rst @@ -0,0 +1,22 @@ +.. SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0 + +============================================ +The Linux Hardware Timestamping Engine (HTE) +============================================ + +The HTE Subsystem +================= + +.. toctree:: + :maxdepth: 1 + + hte + +HTE Tegra Provider +================== + +.. toctree:: + :maxdepth: 1 + + tegra-hte + diff --git a/Documentation/driver-api/hte/tegra-hte.rst b/Documentation/driver-api/hte/tegra-hte.rst new file mode 100644 index 000000000..85e654772 --- /dev/null +++ b/Documentation/driver-api/hte/tegra-hte.rst @@ -0,0 +1,47 @@ +.. SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0+ + +HTE Kernel provider driver +========================== + +Description +----------- +The Nvidia tegra HTE provider also known as GTE (Generic Timestamping Engine) +driver implements two GTE instances: 1) GPIO GTE and 2) LIC +(Legacy Interrupt Controller) IRQ GTE. Both GTE instances get the timestamp +from the system counter TSC which has 31.25MHz clock rate, and the driver +converts clock tick rate to nanoseconds before storing it as timestamp value. + +GPIO GTE +-------- + +This GTE instance timestamps GPIO in real time. For that to happen GPIO +needs to be configured as input. Only the always on (AON) GPIO controller +instance supports timestamping GPIOs in real time as it is tightly coupled with +the GPIO GTE. To support this, GPIOLIB adds two optional APIs as mentioned +below. The GPIO GTE code supports both kernel and userspace consumers. The +kernel space consumers can directly talk to HTE subsystem while userspace +consumers timestamp requests go through GPIOLIB CDEV framework to HTE +subsystem. The hte devicetree binding described at +``Documentation/devicetree/bindings/timestamp`` provides an example of how a +consumer can request an GPIO line. + +See gpiod_enable_hw_timestamp_ns() and gpiod_disable_hw_timestamp_ns(). + +For userspace consumers, GPIO_V2_LINE_FLAG_EVENT_CLOCK_HTE flag must be +specified during IOCTL calls. Refer to ``tools/gpio/gpio-event-mon.c``, which +returns the timestamp in nanoseconds. + +LIC (Legacy Interrupt Controller) IRQ GTE +----------------------------------------- + +This GTE instance timestamps LIC IRQ lines in real time. The hte devicetree +binding described at ``Documentation/devicetree/bindings/timestamp`` +provides an example of how a consumer can request an IRQ line. Since it is a +one-to-one mapping with IRQ GTE provider, consumers can simply specify the IRQ +number that they are interested in. There is no userspace consumer support for +this GTE instance in the HTE framework. + +The provider source code of both IRQ and GPIO GTE instances is located at +``drivers/hte/hte-tegra194.c``. The test driver +``drivers/hte/hte-tegra194-test.c`` demonstrates HTE API usage for both IRQ +and GPIO GTE. |
