From a5f7a5bb3b7f28ba7e4fa246775b29a0e5537255 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Jinke Han Date: Tue, 8 Sep 2026 15:37:42 +0800 Subject: x86/kprobes: Fix crash when probing CS CALL instructions 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) Signed-off-by: Jinke Han Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar Reviewed-by: Masami Hiramatsu (Google) Acked-by: Yafang Shao Acked-by: Borislav Petkov Cc: Peter Zijlstra Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260908073742.GA10517@didi-ThinkCentre-M920t-N000 --- Documentation/driver-api/io-mapping.rst | 91 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 91 insertions(+) create mode 100644 Documentation/driver-api/io-mapping.rst (limited to 'Documentation/driver-api/io-mapping.rst') diff --git a/Documentation/driver-api/io-mapping.rst b/Documentation/driver-api/io-mapping.rst new file mode 100644 index 000000000..7274204b0 --- /dev/null +++ b/Documentation/driver-api/io-mapping.rst @@ -0,0 +1,91 @@ +======================== +The io_mapping functions +======================== + +API +=== + +The io_mapping functions in linux/io-mapping.h provide an abstraction for +efficiently mapping small regions of an I/O device to the CPU. The initial +usage is to support the large graphics aperture on 32-bit processors where +ioremap_wc cannot be used to statically map the entire aperture to the CPU +as it would consume too much of the kernel address space. + +A mapping object is created during driver initialization using:: + + struct io_mapping *io_mapping_create_wc(unsigned long base, + unsigned long size) + +'base' is the bus address of the region to be made +mappable, while 'size' indicates how large a mapping region to +enable. Both are in bytes. + +This _wc variant provides a mapping which may only be used with +io_mapping_map_atomic_wc(), io_mapping_map_local_wc() or +io_mapping_map_wc(). + +With this mapping object, individual pages can be mapped either temporarily +or long term, depending on the requirements. Of course, temporary maps are +more efficient. They come in two flavours:: + + void *io_mapping_map_local_wc(struct io_mapping *mapping, + unsigned long offset) + + void *io_mapping_map_atomic_wc(struct io_mapping *mapping, + unsigned long offset) + +'offset' is the offset within the defined mapping region. Accessing +addresses beyond the region specified in the creation function yields +undefined results. Using an offset which is not page aligned yields an +undefined result. The return value points to a single page in CPU address +space. + +This _wc variant returns a write-combining map to the page and may only be +used with mappings created by io_mapping_create_wc() + +Temporary mappings are only valid in the context of the caller. The mapping +is not guaranteed to be globally visible. + +io_mapping_map_local_wc() has a side effect on X86 32bit as it disables +migration to make the mapping code work. No caller can rely on this side +effect. + +io_mapping_map_atomic_wc() has the side effect of disabling preemption and +pagefaults. Don't use in new code. Use io_mapping_map_local_wc() instead. + +Nested mappings need to be undone in reverse order because the mapping +code uses a stack for keeping track of them:: + + addr1 = io_mapping_map_local_wc(map1, offset1); + addr2 = io_mapping_map_local_wc(map2, offset2); + ... + io_mapping_unmap_local(addr2); + io_mapping_unmap_local(addr1); + +The mappings are released with:: + + void io_mapping_unmap_local(void *vaddr) + void io_mapping_unmap_atomic(void *vaddr) + +'vaddr' must be the value returned by the last io_mapping_map_local_wc() or +io_mapping_map_atomic_wc() call. This unmaps the specified mapping and +undoes the side effects of the mapping functions. + +If you need to sleep while holding a mapping, you can use the regular +variant, although this may be significantly slower:: + + void *io_mapping_map_wc(struct io_mapping *mapping, + unsigned long offset) + +This works like io_mapping_map_atomic/local_wc() except it has no side +effects and the pointer is globally visible. + +The mappings are released with:: + + void io_mapping_unmap(void *vaddr) + +Use for pages mapped with io_mapping_map_wc(). + +At driver close time, the io_mapping object must be freed:: + + void io_mapping_free(struct io_mapping *mapping) -- cgit v1.3.1