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2021-09-30kprobes: treewide: Make it harder to refer kretprobe_trampoline directlyMasami Hiramatsu
Since now there is kretprobe_trampoline_addr() for referring the address of kretprobe trampoline code, we don't need to access kretprobe_trampoline directly. Make it harder to refer by renaming it to __kretprobe_trampoline(). Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/163163045446.489837.14510577516938803097.stgit@devnote2 Suggested-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Masami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (VMware) <rostedt@goodmis.org>
2021-09-30kprobes: treewide: Remove trampoline_address from kretprobe_trampoline_handler()Masami Hiramatsu
The __kretprobe_trampoline_handler() callback, called from low level arch kprobes methods, has the 'trampoline_address' parameter, which is entirely superfluous as it basically just replicates: dereference_kernel_function_descriptor(kretprobe_trampoline) In fact we had bugs in arch code where it wasn't replicated correctly. So remove this superfluous parameter and use kretprobe_trampoline_addr() instead. Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/163163044546.489837.13505751885476015002.stgit@devnote2 Signed-off-by: Masami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@kernel.org> Tested-by: Andrii Nakryiko <andrii@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (VMware) <rostedt@goodmis.org>
2021-09-30kprobes: treewide: Replace arch_deref_entry_point() with ↵Masami Hiramatsu
dereference_symbol_descriptor() ~15 years ago kprobes grew the 'arch_deref_entry_point()' __weak function: 3d7e33825d87: ("jprobes: make jprobes a little safer for users") But this is just open-coded dereference_symbol_descriptor() in essence, and its obscure nature was causing bugs. Just use the real thing and remove arch_deref_entry_point(). Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/163163043630.489837.7924988885652708696.stgit@devnote2 Signed-off-by: Masami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@kernel.org> Tested-by: Andrii Nakryiko <andrii@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (VMware) <rostedt@goodmis.org>
2021-08-09powerpc/kprobes: Fix kprobe Oops happens in bookePu Lehui
When using kprobe on powerpc booke series processor, Oops happens as show bellow: / # echo "p:myprobe do_nanosleep" > /sys/kernel/debug/tracing/kprobe_events / # echo 1 > /sys/kernel/debug/tracing/events/kprobes/myprobe/enable / # sleep 1 [ 50.076730] Oops: Exception in kernel mode, sig: 5 [#1] [ 50.077017] BE PAGE_SIZE=4K SMP NR_CPUS=24 QEMU e500 [ 50.077221] Modules linked in: [ 50.077462] CPU: 0 PID: 77 Comm: sleep Not tainted 5.14.0-rc4-00022-g251a1524293d #21 [ 50.077887] NIP: c0b9c4e0 LR: c00ebecc CTR: 00000000 [ 50.078067] REGS: c3883de0 TRAP: 0700 Not tainted (5.14.0-rc4-00022-g251a1524293d) [ 50.078349] MSR: 00029000 <CE,EE,ME> CR: 24000228 XER: 20000000 [ 50.078675] [ 50.078675] GPR00: c00ebdf0 c3883e90 c313e300 c3883ea0 00000001 00000000 c3883ecc 00000001 [ 50.078675] GPR08: c100598c c00ea250 00000004 00000000 24000222 102490c2 bff4180c 101e60d4 [ 50.078675] GPR16: 00000000 102454ac 00000040 10240000 10241100 102410f8 10240000 00500000 [ 50.078675] GPR24: 00000002 00000000 c3883ea0 00000001 00000000 0000c350 3b9b8d50 00000000 [ 50.080151] NIP [c0b9c4e0] do_nanosleep+0x0/0x190 [ 50.080352] LR [c00ebecc] hrtimer_nanosleep+0x14c/0x1e0 [ 50.080638] Call Trace: [ 50.080801] [c3883e90] [c00ebdf0] hrtimer_nanosleep+0x70/0x1e0 (unreliable) [ 50.081110] [c3883f00] [c00ec004] sys_nanosleep_time32+0xa4/0x110 [ 50.081336] [c3883f40] [c001509c] ret_from_syscall+0x0/0x28 [ 50.081541] --- interrupt: c00 at 0x100a4d08 [ 50.081749] NIP: 100a4d08 LR: 101b5234 CTR: 00000003 [ 50.081931] REGS: c3883f50 TRAP: 0c00 Not tainted (5.14.0-rc4-00022-g251a1524293d) [ 50.082183] MSR: 0002f902 <CE,EE,PR,FP,ME> CR: 24000222 XER: 00000000 [ 50.082457] [ 50.082457] GPR00: 000000a2 bf980040 1024b4d0 bf980084 bf980084 64000000 00555345 fefefeff [ 50.082457] GPR08: 7f7f7f7f 101e0000 00000069 00000003 28000422 102490c2 bff4180c 101e60d4 [ 50.082457] GPR16: 00000000 102454ac 00000040 10240000 10241100 102410f8 10240000 00500000 [ 50.082457] GPR24: 00000002 bf9803f4 10240000 00000000 00000000 100039e0 00000000 102444e8 [ 50.083789] NIP [100a4d08] 0x100a4d08 [ 50.083917] LR [101b5234] 0x101b5234 [ 50.084042] --- interrupt: c00 [ 50.084238] Instruction dump: [ 50.084483] 4bfffc40 60000000 60000000 60000000 9421fff0 39400402 914200c0 38210010 [ 50.084841] 4bfffc20 00000000 00000000 00000000 <7fe00008> 7c0802a6 7c892378 93c10048 [ 50.085487] ---[ end trace f6fffe98e2fa8f3e ]--- [ 50.085678] Trace/breakpoint trap There is no real mode for booke arch and the MMU translation is always on. The corresponding MSR_IS/MSR_DS bit in booke is used to switch the address space, but not for real mode judgment. Fixes: 21f8b2fa3ca5 ("powerpc/kprobes: Ignore traps that happened in real mode") Signed-off-by: Pu Lehui <pulehui@huawei.com> Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20210809023658.218915-1-pulehui@huawei.com
2021-07-02Merge tag 'powerpc-5.14-1' of ↵Linus Torvalds
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/powerpc/linux Pull powerpc updates from Michael Ellerman: - A big series refactoring parts of our KVM code, and converting some to C. - Support for ARCH_HAS_SET_MEMORY, and ARCH_HAS_STRICT_MODULE_RWX on some CPUs. - Support for the Microwatt soft-core. - Optimisations to our interrupt return path on 64-bit. - Support for userspace access to the NX GZIP accelerator on PowerVM on Power10. - Enable KUAP and KUEP by default on 32-bit Book3S CPUs. - Other smaller features, fixes & cleanups. Thanks to: Andy Shevchenko, Aneesh Kumar K.V, Arnd Bergmann, Athira Rajeev, Baokun Li, Benjamin Herrenschmidt, Bharata B Rao, Christophe Leroy, Daniel Axtens, Daniel Henrique Barboza, Finn Thain, Geoff Levand, Haren Myneni, Jason Wang, Jiapeng Chong, Joel Stanley, Jordan Niethe, Kajol Jain, Nathan Chancellor, Nathan Lynch, Naveen N. Rao, Nicholas Piggin, Nick Desaulniers, Paul Mackerras, Russell Currey, Sathvika Vasireddy, Shaokun Zhang, Stephen Rothwell, Sudeep Holla, Suraj Jitindar Singh, Tom Rix, Vaibhav Jain, YueHaibing, Zhang Jianhua, and Zhen Lei. * tag 'powerpc-5.14-1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/powerpc/linux: (218 commits) powerpc: Only build restart_table.c for 64s powerpc/64s: move ret_from_fork etc above __end_soft_masked powerpc/64s/interrupt: clean up interrupt return labels powerpc/64/interrupt: add missing kprobe annotations on interrupt exit symbols powerpc/64: enable MSR[EE] in irq replay pt_regs powerpc/64s/interrupt: preserve regs->softe for NMI interrupts powerpc/64s: add a table of implicit soft-masked addresses powerpc/64e: remove implicit soft-masking and interrupt exit restart logic powerpc/64e: fix CONFIG_RELOCATABLE build warnings powerpc/64s: fix hash page fault interrupt handler powerpc/4xx: Fix setup_kuep() on SMP powerpc/32s: Fix setup_{kuap/kuep}() on SMP powerpc/interrupt: Use names in check_return_regs_valid() powerpc/interrupt: Also use exit_must_hard_disable() on PPC32 powerpc/sysfs: Replace sizeof(arr)/sizeof(arr[0]) with ARRAY_SIZE powerpc/ptrace: Refactor regs_set_return_{msr/ip} powerpc/ptrace: Move set_return_regs_changed() before regs_set_return_{msr/ip} powerpc/stacktrace: Fix spurious "stale" traces in raise_backtrace_ipi() powerpc/pseries/vas: Include irqdomain.h powerpc: mark local variables around longjmp as volatile ...
2021-06-28Merge tag 'perf-core-2021-06-28' of ↵Linus Torvalds
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip Pull perf events updates from Ingo Molnar: - Platform PMU driver updates: - x86 Intel uncore driver updates for Skylake (SNR) and Icelake (ICX) servers - Fix RDPMC support - Fix [extended-]PEBS-via-PT support - Fix Sapphire Rapids event constraints - Fix :ppp support on Sapphire Rapids - Fix fixed counter sanity check on Alder Lake & X86_FEATURE_HYBRID_CPU - Other heterogenous-PMU fixes - Kprobes: - Remove the unused and misguided kprobe::fault_handler callbacks. - Warn about kprobes taking a page fault. - Fix the 'nmissed' stat counter. - Misc cleanups and fixes. * tag 'perf-core-2021-06-28' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip: perf: Fix task context PMU for Hetero perf/x86/intel: Fix instructions:ppp support in Sapphire Rapids perf/x86/intel: Add more events requires FRONTEND MSR on Sapphire Rapids perf/x86/intel: Fix fixed counter check warning for some Alder Lake perf/x86/intel: Fix PEBS-via-PT reload base value for Extended PEBS perf/x86: Reset the dirty counter to prevent the leak for an RDPMC task kprobes: Do not increment probe miss count in the fault handler x86,kprobes: WARN if kprobes tries to handle a fault kprobes: Remove kprobe::fault_handler uprobes: Update uprobe_write_opcode() kernel-doc comment perf/hw_breakpoint: Fix DocBook warnings in perf hw_breakpoint perf/core: Fix DocBook warnings perf/core: Make local function perf_pmu_snapshot_aux() static perf/x86/intel/uncore: Enable I/O stacks to IIO PMON mapping on ICX perf/x86/intel/uncore: Enable I/O stacks to IIO PMON mapping on SNR perf/x86/intel/uncore: Generalize I/O stacks to PMON mapping procedure perf/x86/intel/uncore: Drop unnecessary NULL checks after container_of()
2021-06-25powerpc/kprobes: Warn if instruction patching failedNaveen N. Rao
When arming and disarming probes, we currently assume that instruction patching can never fail, and don't have a mechanism to surface errors. Add a warning in case instruction patching ever fails. Signed-off-by: Naveen N. Rao <naveen.n.rao@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/18d7b1309f938c08ce07738100932b551bdd3a52.1621416666.git.naveen.n.rao@linux.vnet.ibm.com
2021-06-25powerpc/kprobes: Roll IS_RFI() macro into IS_RFID()Naveen N. Rao
In kprobes and xmon, we should exclude both 32-bit and 64-bit variants of mtmsr and rfi instructions from being stepped. Have IS_RFID() also detect a rfi instruction similar to IS_MTMSRD(). Signed-off-by: Naveen N. Rao <naveen.n.rao@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/eee32e1b75dae85d471c89b4c0a123ad4b0aabf8.1621416666.git.naveen.n.rao@linux.vnet.ibm.com
2021-06-25powerpc/64s: avoid reloading (H)SRR registers if they are still validNicholas Piggin
When an interrupt is taken, the SRR registers are set to return to where it left off. Unless they are modified in the meantime, or the return address or MSR are modified, there is no need to reload these registers when returning from interrupt. Introduce per-CPU flags that track the validity of SRR and HSRR registers. These are cleared when returning from interrupt, when using the registers for something else (e.g., OPAL calls), when adjusting the return address or MSR of a context, and when context switching (which changes the return address and MSR). This improves the performance of interrupt returns. Signed-off-by: Nicholas Piggin <npiggin@gmail.com> [mpe: Fold in fixup patch from Nick] Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20210617155116.2167984-5-npiggin@gmail.com
2021-06-21powerpc/kprobes: Mark newly allocated probes as ROXRussell Currey
Add the arch specific insn page allocator for powerpc. This allocates ROX pages if STRICT_KERNEL_RWX is enabled. These pages are only written to with patch_instruction() which is able to write RO pages. Signed-off-by: Russell Currey <ruscur@russell.cc> Signed-off-by: Christophe Leroy <christophe.leroy@csgroup.eu> [jpn: Reword commit message, switch to __vmalloc_node_range()] Signed-off-by: Jordan Niethe <jniethe5@gmail.com> Reviewed-by: Daniel Axtens <dja@axtens.net> Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20210609013431.9805-5-jniethe5@gmail.com
2021-06-17powerpc: Don't use 'struct ppc_inst' to reference instruction locationChristophe Leroy
'struct ppc_inst' is an internal representation of an instruction, but in-memory instructions are and will remain a table of 'u32' forever. Replace all 'struct ppc_inst *' used for locating an instruction in memory by 'u32 *'. This removes a lot of undue casts to 'struct ppc_inst *'. It also helps locating ab-use of 'struct ppc_inst' dereference. Signed-off-by: Christophe Leroy <christophe.leroy@csgroup.eu> [mpe: Fix ppc_inst_next(), use u32 instead of unsigned int] Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/7062722b087228e42cbd896e39bfdf526d6a340a.1621516826.git.christophe.leroy@csgroup.eu
2021-06-03kprobes: Do not increment probe miss count in the fault handlerNaveen N. Rao
Kprobes has a counter 'nmissed', that is used to count the number of times a probe handler was not called. This generally happens when we hit a kprobe while handling another kprobe. However, if one of the probe handlers causes a fault, we are currently incrementing 'nmissed'. The comment in fault handler indicates that this can be used to account faults taken by the probe handlers. But, this has never been the intention as is evident from the comment above 'nmissed' in 'struct kprobe': /*count the number of times this probe was temporarily disarmed */ unsigned long nmissed; Signed-off-by: Naveen N. Rao <naveen.n.rao@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org> Acked-by: Masami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@kernel.org> Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20210601120150.672652-1-naveen.n.rao@linux.vnet.ibm.com
2021-06-01kprobes: Remove kprobe::fault_handlerPeter Zijlstra
The reason for kprobe::fault_handler(), as given by their comment: * We come here because instructions in the pre/post * handler caused the page_fault, this could happen * if handler tries to access user space by * copy_from_user(), get_user() etc. Let the * user-specified handler try to fix it first. Is just plain bad. Those other handlers are ran from non-preemptible context and had better use _nofault() functions. Also, there is no upstream usage of this. Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org> Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de> Acked-by: Masami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@kernel.org> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20210525073213.561116662@infradead.org
2021-05-28powerpc/kprobes: Fix validation of prefixed instructions across page boundaryNaveen N. Rao
When checking if the probed instruction is the suffix of a prefixed instruction, we access the instruction at the previous word. If the probed instruction is the very first word of a module, we can end up trying to access an invalid page. Fix this by skipping the check for all instructions at the beginning of a page. Prefixed instructions cannot cross a 64-byte boundary and as such, we don't expect to encounter a suffix as the very first word in a page for kernel text. Even if there are prefixed instructions crossing a page boundary (from a module, for instance), the instruction will be illegal, so preventing probing on the suffix of such prefix instructions isn't worthwhile. Fixes: b4657f7650ba ("powerpc/kprobes: Don't allow breakpoints on suffixes") Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org # v5.8+ Reported-by: Christophe Leroy <christophe.leroy@csgroup.eu> Signed-off-by: Naveen N. Rao <naveen.n.rao@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/0df9a032a05576a2fa8e97d1b769af2ff0eafbd6.1621416666.git.naveen.n.rao@linux.vnet.ibm.com
2020-09-08powerpc: kprobes: Use generic kretprobe trampoline handlerMasami Hiramatsu
Use the generic kretprobe trampoline handler. Don't use framepointer verification. Signed-off-by: Masami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/159870610825.1229682.2090635992093223399.stgit@devnote2
2020-07-23powerpc: Add a ppc_inst_as_str() helperJordan Niethe
There are quite a few places where instructions are printed, this is done using a '%x' format specifier. With the introduction of prefixed instructions, this does not work well. Currently in these places, ppc_inst_val() is used for the value for %x so only the first word of prefixed instructions are printed. When the instructions are word instructions, only a single word should be printed. For prefixed instructions both the prefix and suffix should be printed. To accommodate both of these situations, instead of a '%x' specifier use '%s' and introduce a helper, __ppc_inst_as_str() which returns a char *. The char * __ppc_inst_as_str() returns is buffer that is passed to it by the caller. It is cumbersome to require every caller of __ppc_inst_as_str() to now declare a buffer. To make it more convenient to use __ppc_inst_as_str(), wrap it in a macro that uses a compound statement to allocate a buffer on the caller's stack before calling it. Signed-off-by: Jordan Niethe <jniethe5@gmail.com> Reviewed-by: Joel Stanley <joel@jms.id.au> Acked-by: Segher Boessenkool <segher@kernel.crashing.org> [mpe: Drop 0x prefix to match most existings uses, especially xmon] Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20200602052728.18227-1-jniethe5@gmail.com
2020-06-18maccess: rename probe_kernel_address to get_kernel_nofaultChristoph Hellwig
Better describe what this helper does, and match the naming of copy_from_kernel_nofault. Also switch the argument order around, so that it acts and looks like get_user(). Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2020-06-02powerpc/kprobes: Use probe_address() to read instructionsChristophe Leroy
In order to avoid Oopses, use probe_address() to read the instruction at the address where the trap happened. Signed-off-by: Christophe Leroy <christophe.leroy@c-s.fr> Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/7f24b5961a6839ff01df792816807f74ff236bf6.1582567319.git.christophe.leroy@c-s.fr
2020-05-19powerpc/kprobes: Don't allow breakpoints on suffixesJordan Niethe
Do not allow inserting breakpoints on the suffix of a prefix instruction in kprobes. Signed-off-by: Jordan Niethe <jniethe5@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20200506034050.24806-28-jniethe5@gmail.com
2020-05-19powerpc: Introduce a function for reporting instruction lengthJordan Niethe
Currently all instructions have the same length, but in preparation for prefixed instructions introduce a function for returning instruction length. Signed-off-by: Jordan Niethe <jniethe5@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au> Reviewed-by: Alistair Popple <alistair@popple.id.au> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20200506034050.24806-18-jniethe5@gmail.com
2020-05-19powerpc/kprobes: Use patch_instruction()Jordan Niethe
Instead of using memcpy() and flush_icache_range() use patch_instruction() which not only accomplishes both of these steps but will also make it easier to add support for prefixed instructions. Signed-off-by: Jordan Niethe <jniethe5@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au> Reviewed-by: Alistair Popple <alistair@popple.id.au> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20200506034050.24806-16-jniethe5@gmail.com
2020-05-19powerpc: Use a function for reading instructionsJordan Niethe
Prefixed instructions will mean there are instructions of different length. As a result dereferencing a pointer to an instruction will not necessarily give the desired result. Introduce a function for reading instructions from memory into the instruction data type. Signed-off-by: Jordan Niethe <jniethe5@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au> Reviewed-by: Alistair Popple <alistair@popple.id.au> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20200506034050.24806-13-jniethe5@gmail.com
2020-05-19powerpc: Use a datatype for instructionsJordan Niethe
Currently unsigned ints are used to represent instructions on powerpc. This has worked well as instructions have always been 4 byte words. However, ISA v3.1 introduces some changes to instructions that mean this scheme will no longer work as well. This change is Prefixed Instructions. A prefixed instruction is made up of a word prefix followed by a word suffix to make an 8 byte double word instruction. No matter the endianness of the system the prefix always comes first. Prefixed instructions are only planned for powerpc64. Introduce a ppc_inst type to represent both prefixed and word instructions on powerpc64 while keeping it possible to exclusively have word instructions on powerpc32. Signed-off-by: Jordan Niethe <jniethe5@gmail.com> [mpe: Fix compile error in emulate_spe()] Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20200506034050.24806-12-jniethe5@gmail.com
2020-05-19powerpc: Use an accessor for instructionsJordan Niethe
In preparation for introducing a more complicated instruction type to accommodate prefixed instructions use an accessor for getting an instruction as a u32. Signed-off-by: Jordan Niethe <jniethe5@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20200506034050.24806-8-jniethe5@gmail.com
2020-05-19powerpc: Use a macro for creating instructions from u32sJordan Niethe
In preparation for instructions having a more complex data type start using a macro, ppc_inst(), for making an instruction out of a u32. A macro is used so that instructions can be used as initializer elements. Currently this does nothing, but it will allow for creating a data type that can represent prefixed instructions. Signed-off-by: Jordan Niethe <jniethe5@gmail.com> [mpe: Change include guard to _ASM_POWERPC_INST_H] Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au> Reviewed-by: Alistair Popple <alistair@popple.id.au> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20200506034050.24806-7-jniethe5@gmail.com
2020-03-25powerpc/kprobes: Ignore traps that happened in real modeChristophe Leroy
When a program check exception happens while MMU translation is disabled, following Oops happens in kprobe_handler() in the following code: } else if (*addr != BREAKPOINT_INSTRUCTION) { BUG: Unable to handle kernel data access on read at 0x0000e268 Faulting instruction address: 0xc000ec34 Oops: Kernel access of bad area, sig: 11 [#1] BE PAGE_SIZE=16K PREEMPT CMPC885 Modules linked in: CPU: 0 PID: 429 Comm: cat Not tainted 5.6.0-rc1-s3k-dev-00824-g84195dc6c58a #3267 NIP: c000ec34 LR: c000ecd8 CTR: c019cab8 REGS: ca4d3b58 TRAP: 0300 Not tainted (5.6.0-rc1-s3k-dev-00824-g84195dc6c58a) MSR: 00001032 <ME,IR,DR,RI> CR: 2a4d3c52 XER: 00000000 DAR: 0000e268 DSISR: c0000000 GPR00: c000b09c ca4d3c10 c66d0620 00000000 ca4d3c60 00000000 00009032 00000000 GPR08: 00020000 00000000 c087de44 c000afe0 c66d0ad0 100d3dd6 fffffff3 00000000 GPR16: 00000000 00000041 00000000 ca4d3d70 00000000 00000000 0000416d 00000000 GPR24: 00000004 c53b6128 00000000 0000e268 00000000 c07c0000 c07bb6fc ca4d3c60 NIP [c000ec34] kprobe_handler+0x128/0x290 LR [c000ecd8] kprobe_handler+0x1cc/0x290 Call Trace: [ca4d3c30] [c000b09c] program_check_exception+0xbc/0x6fc [ca4d3c50] [c000e43c] ret_from_except_full+0x0/0x4 --- interrupt: 700 at 0xe268 Instruction dump: 913e0008 81220000 38600001 3929ffff 91220000 80010024 bb410008 7c0803a6 38210020 4e800020 38600000 4e800020 <813b0000> 6d2a7fe0 2f8a0008 419e0154 ---[ end trace 5b9152d4cdadd06d ]--- kprobe is not prepared to handle events in real mode and functions running in real mode should have been blacklisted, so kprobe_handler() can safely bail out telling 'this trap is not mine' for any trap that happened while in real-mode. If the trap happened with MSR_IR or MSR_DR cleared, return 0 immediately. Reported-by: Larry Finger <Larry.Finger@lwfinger.net> Fixes: 6cc89bad60a6 ("powerpc/kprobes: Invoke handlers directly") Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org # v4.10+ Signed-off-by: Christophe Leroy <christophe.leroy@c-s.fr> Reviewed-by: Masami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@kernel.org> Reviewed-by: Naveen N. Rao <naveen.n.rao@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/424331e2006e7291a1bfe40e7f3fa58825f565e1.1582054578.git.christophe.leroy@c-s.fr
2020-03-25powerpc/kprobes: Remove redundant codeChristophe Leroy
At the time being we have something like if (something) { p = get(); if (p) { if (something_wrong) goto out; ... return; } else if (a != b) { if (some_error) goto out; ... } goto out; } p = get(); if (!p) { if (a != b) { if (some_error) goto out; ... } goto out; } This is similar to p = get(); if (!p) { if (a != b) { if (some_error) goto out; ... } goto out; } if (something) { if (something_wrong) goto out; ... return; } Signed-off-by: Christophe Leroy <christophe.leroy@c-s.fr> [mpe: Reflow the comment that was moved] Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/07a17425743600460ce35fa9432d42487a825583.1582099499.git.christophe.leroy@c-s.fr
2019-05-30treewide: Replace GPLv2 boilerplate/reference with SPDX - rule 156Thomas Gleixner
Based on 1 normalized pattern(s): this program is free software you can redistribute it and or modify it under the terms of the gnu general public license as published by the free software foundation either version 2 of the license or at your option any later version this program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful but without any warranty without even the implied warranty of merchantability or fitness for a particular purpose see the gnu general public license for more details you should have received a copy of the gnu general public license along with this program if not write to the free software foundation inc 59 temple place suite 330 boston ma 02111 1307 usa extracted by the scancode license scanner the SPDX license identifier GPL-2.0-or-later has been chosen to replace the boilerplate/reference in 1334 file(s). Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Reviewed-by: Allison Randal <allison@lohutok.net> Reviewed-by: Richard Fontana <rfontana@redhat.com> Cc: linux-spdx@vger.kernel.org Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20190527070033.113240726@linutronix.de Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
2018-06-21bpf/error-inject/kprobes: Clear current_kprobe and enable preempt in kprobeMasami Hiramatsu
Clear current_kprobe and enable preemption in kprobe even if pre_handler returns !0. This simplifies function override using kprobes. Jprobe used to require to keep the preemption disabled and keep current_kprobe until it returned to original function entry. For this reason kprobe_int3_handler() and similar arch dependent kprobe handers checks pre_handler result and exit without enabling preemption if the result is !0. After removing the jprobe, Kprobes does not need to keep preempt disabled even if user handler returns !0 anymore. But since the function override handler in error-inject and bpf is also returns !0 if it overrides a function, to balancing the preempt count, it enables preemption and reset current kprobe by itself. That is a bad design that is very buggy. This fixes such unbalanced preempt-count and current_kprobes setting in kprobes, bpf and error-inject. Note: for powerpc and x86, this removes all preempt_disable from kprobe_ftrace_handler because ftrace callbacks are called under preempt disabled. Signed-off-by: Masami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@kernel.org> Acked-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Acked-by: Naveen N. Rao <naveen.n.rao@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Cc: Alexei Starovoitov <ast@kernel.org> Cc: Ananth N Mavinakayanahalli <ananth@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org> Cc: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com> Cc: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net> Cc: Fenghua Yu <fenghua.yu@intel.com> Cc: Heiko Carstens <heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com> Cc: James Hogan <jhogan@kernel.org> Cc: Josef Bacik <jbacik@fb.com> Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com> Cc: Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au> Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org> Cc: Rich Felker <dalias@libc.org> Cc: Russell King <linux@armlinux.org.uk> Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org> Cc: Tony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com> Cc: Vineet Gupta <vgupta@synopsys.com> Cc: Will Deacon <will.deacon@arm.com> Cc: Yoshinori Sato <ysato@users.sourceforge.jp> Cc: linux-arch@vger.kernel.org Cc: linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org Cc: linux-ia64@vger.kernel.org Cc: linux-mips@linux-mips.org Cc: linux-s390@vger.kernel.org Cc: linux-sh@vger.kernel.org Cc: linux-snps-arc@lists.infradead.org Cc: linuxppc-dev@lists.ozlabs.org Cc: sparclinux@vger.kernel.org Link: https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/152942494574.15209.12323837825873032258.stgit@devbox Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
2018-06-21powerpc/kprobes: Don't call the ->break_handler() in powerpc kprobes codeMasami Hiramatsu
Don't call the ->break_handler() from the powerpc kprobes code, because it was only used by jprobes which got removed. This also removes skip_singlestep() and embeds it in the caller, kprobe_ftrace_handler(), which simplifies regs->nip operation around there. Signed-off-by: Masami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@kernel.org> Acked-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Acked-by: Naveen N. Rao <naveen.n.rao@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Cc: Ananth N Mavinakayanahalli <ananth@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org> Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au> Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org> Cc: linux-arch@vger.kernel.org Cc: linuxppc-dev@lists.ozlabs.org Link: https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/152942477127.15209.8982613703787878618.stgit@devbox Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
2018-06-21powerpc/kprobes: Remove jprobe powerpc implementationMasami Hiramatsu
Remove arch dependent setjump/longjump functions and unused fields in kprobe_ctlblk for jprobes from arch/powerpc. This also reverts commits related __is_active_jprobe() function. Signed-off-by: Masami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@kernel.org> Acked-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Acked-by: Naveen N. Rao <naveen.n.rao@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Cc: Ananth N Mavinakayanahalli <ananth@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org> Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au> Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org> Cc: linux-arch@vger.kernel.org Cc: linuxppc-dev@lists.ozlabs.org Link: https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/152942445234.15209.12868722778364739753.stgit@devbox Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
2018-03-31powerpc/kprobes: Fix call trace due to incorrect preempt countNaveen N. Rao
Michael Ellerman reported the following call trace when running ftracetest: BUG: using __this_cpu_write() in preemptible [00000000] code: ftracetest/6178 caller is opt_pre_handler+0xc4/0x110 CPU: 1 PID: 6178 Comm: ftracetest Not tainted 4.15.0-rc7-gcc6x-gb2cd1df #1 Call Trace: [c0000000f9ec39c0] [c000000000ac4304] dump_stack+0xb4/0x100 (unreliable) [c0000000f9ec3a00] [c00000000061159c] check_preemption_disabled+0x15c/0x170 [c0000000f9ec3a90] [c000000000217e84] opt_pre_handler+0xc4/0x110 [c0000000f9ec3af0] [c00000000004cf68] optimized_callback+0x148/0x170 [c0000000f9ec3b40] [c00000000004d954] optinsn_slot+0xec/0x10000 [c0000000f9ec3e30] [c00000000004bae0] kretprobe_trampoline+0x0/0x10 This is showing up since OPTPROBES is now enabled with CONFIG_PREEMPT. trampoline_probe_handler() considers itself to be a special kprobe handler for kretprobes. In doing so, it expects to be called from kprobe_handler() on a trap, and re-enables preemption before returning a non-zero return value so as to suppress any subsequent processing of the trap by the kprobe_handler(). However, with optprobes, we don't deal with special handlers (we ignore the return code) and just try to re-enable preemption causing the above trace. To address this, modify trampoline_probe_handler() to not be special. The only additional processing done in kprobe_handler() is to emulate the instruction (in this case, a 'nop'). We adjust the value of regs->nip for the purpose and delegate the job of re-enabling preemption and resetting current kprobe to the probe handlers (kprobe_handler() or optimized_callback()). Fixes: 8a2d71a3f273 ("powerpc/kprobes: Disable preemption before invoking probe handler for optprobes") Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org # v4.15+ Reported-by: Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au> Signed-off-by: Naveen N. Rao <naveen.n.rao@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Acked-by: Ananth N Mavinakayanahalli <ananth@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au>
2017-11-12powerpc/kprobes: refactor kprobe_lookup_name for safer string operationsNaveen N. Rao
Use safer string manipulation functions when dealing with a user-provided string in kprobe_lookup_name(). Reported-by: David Laight <David.Laight@ACULAB.COM> Signed-off-by: Naveen N. Rao <naveen.n.rao@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au>
2017-11-10Merge branch 'fixes' into nextMichael Ellerman
We have some dependencies & conflicts between patches in fixes and things to go in next, both in the radix TLB flush code and the IMC PMU driver. So merge fixes into next.
2017-11-01powerpc/kprobes: Dereference function pointers only if the address does not ↵Naveen N. Rao
belong to kernel text This makes the changes introduced in commit 83e840c770f2c5 ("powerpc64/elfv1: Only dereference function descriptor for non-text symbols") to be specific to the kprobe subsystem. We previously changed ppc_function_entry() to always check the provided address to confirm if it needed to be dereferenced. This is actually only an issue for kprobe blacklisted asm labels (through use of _ASM_NOKPROBE_SYMBOL) and can cause other issues with ftrace. Also, the additional checks are not really necessary for our other uses. As such, move this check to the kprobes subsystem. Fixes: 83e840c770f2 ("powerpc64/elfv1: Only dereference function descriptor for non-text symbols") Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org # v4.13+ Signed-off-by: Naveen N. Rao <naveen.n.rao@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au>
2017-10-05powerpc/jprobes: Validate break handler invocation as being due to a ↵Naveen N. Rao
jprobe_return() Fix a circa 2005 FIXME by implementing a check to ensure that we actually got into the jprobe break handler() due to the trap in jprobe_return(). Acked-by: Masami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Naveen N. Rao <naveen.n.rao@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au>
2017-10-04powerpc/kprobes: Clean up jprobe detection in livepatch handlerNaveen N. Rao
In commit c05b8c4474c03 ("powerpc/kprobes: Skip livepatch_handler() for jprobes"), we added a helper is_current_kprobe_addr() to help detect if the modified regs->nip was due to a jprobe or livepatch. Masami felt that the function name was not quite clear. To that end, this patch renames is_current_kprobe_addr() to __is_active_jprobe() and adds a comment to (hopefully) better clarify the purpose of this helper. The helper has also now been moved to kprobes-ftrace.c so that it is only available for KPROBES_ON_FTRACE. Signed-off-by: Naveen N. Rao <naveen.n.rao@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au>
2017-10-04powerpc/kprobes: Do not suppress instruction emulation if a single run failedNaveen N. Rao
Currently, we disable instruction emulation if emulate_step() fails for any reason. However, such failures could be transient and specific to a particular run. Instead, only disable instruction emulation if we have never been able to emulate this. If we had emulated this instruction successfully at least once, then we single step only this probe hit and continue to try emulating the instruction in subsequent probe hits. Signed-off-by: Naveen N. Rao <naveen.n.rao@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au>
2017-10-04powerpc/kprobes: Some cosmetic updates to try_to_emulate()Naveen N. Rao
1. This is only used in kprobes.c, so make it static. 2. Remove the un-necessary (ret == 0) comparison in the else clause. Reviewed-by: Masami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@kernel.org> Reviewed-by: Kamalesh Babulal <kamalesh@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Naveen N. Rao <naveen.n.rao@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au>
2017-07-09Merge branch 'perf-urgent-for-linus' of ↵Linus Torvalds
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip Pull perf fixes from Thomas Gleixner: "A couple of fixes for perf and kprobes: - Add he missing exclude_kernel attribute for the precise_ip level so !CAP_SYS_ADMIN users get the proper results. - Warn instead of failing completely when perf has no unwind support for a particular architectiure built in. - Ensure that jprobes are at function entry and not at some random place" * 'perf-urgent-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip: kprobes: Ensure that jprobe probepoints are at function entry kprobes: Simplify register_jprobes() kprobes: Rename [arch_]function_offset_within_entry() to [arch_]kprobe_on_func_entry() perf unwind: Do not fail due to missing unwind support perf evsel: Set attr.exclude_kernel when probing max attr.precise_ip
2017-07-08kprobes: Rename [arch_]function_offset_within_entry() to ↵Naveen N. Rao
[arch_]kprobe_on_func_entry() Rename function_offset_within_entry() to scope it to kprobe namespace by using kprobe_ prefix, and to also simplify it. Suggested-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org> Suggested-by: Masami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Naveen N. Rao <naveen.n.rao@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Cc: Ananth N Mavinakayanahalli <ananth@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/3aa6c7e2e4fb6e00f3c24fa306496a66edb558ea.1499443367.git.naveen.n.rao@linux.vnet.ibm.com Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
2017-07-03powerpc/kprobes: Move kprobes over to patch_instruction()Balbir Singh
arch_arm/disarm_probe() use direct assignment for copying instructions, replace them with patch_instruction(). We don't need to call flush_icache_range() because patch_instruction() does it for us. Signed-off-by: Balbir Singh <bsingharora@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au>
2017-06-16powerpc/kprobes: Skip livepatch_handler() for jprobesNaveen N. Rao
ftrace_caller() depends on a modified regs->nip to detect if a certain function has been livepatched. However, with KPROBES_ON_FTRACE, it is possible for regs->nip to have been modified by the kprobes pre_handler (jprobes, for instance). In this case, we do not want to invoke the livepatch_handler so as not to consume the livepatch stack. To distinguish between the two (kprobes and livepatch), we check if there is an active kprobe on the current function. If there is, then we know for sure that it must have modified the NIP as we don't support livepatching a kprobe'd function. In this case, we simply skip the livepatch_handler and branch to the new NIP. Otherwise, the livepatch_handler is invoked. Fixes: ead514d5fb30 ("powerpc/kprobes: Add support for KPROBES_ON_FTRACE") Signed-off-by: Naveen N. Rao <naveen.n.rao@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Reviewed-by: Masami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au>
2017-06-16powerpc/kprobes: Pause function_graph tracing during jprobes handlingNaveen N. Rao
This fixes a crash when function_graph and jprobes are used together. This is essentially commit 237d28db036e ("ftrace/jprobes/x86: Fix conflict between jprobes and function graph tracing"), but for powerpc. Jprobes breaks function_graph tracing since the jprobe hook needs to use jprobe_return(), which never returns back to the hook, but instead to the original jprobe'd function. The solution is to momentarily pause function_graph tracing before invoking the jprobe hook and re-enable it when returning back to the original jprobe'd function. Fixes: 6794c78243bf ("powerpc64: port of the function graph tracer") Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org # v2.6.30+ Signed-off-by: Naveen N. Rao <naveen.n.rao@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Acked-by: Masami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@kernel.org> Acked-by: Steven Rostedt (VMware) <rostedt@goodmis.org> Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au>
2017-05-16powerpc/kprobes: Fix handling of instruction emulation on probe re-entryNaveen N. Rao
Commit 22d8b3dec214c ("powerpc/kprobes: Emulate instructions on kprobe handler re-entry") enabled emulating instructions on kprobe re-entry, rather than single-stepping always. However, we didn't update the single stepping code to only be run if the emulation fails. Also, we missed re-enabling preemption if the instruction emulation was successful. Fix those issues. Fixes: 22d8b3dec214c ("powerpc/kprobes: Emulate instructions on kprobe handler re-entry") Signed-off-by: Naveen N. Rao <naveen.n.rao@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au>
2017-04-25Merge branch 'topic/kprobes' into nextMichael Ellerman
Although most of these kprobes patches are powerpc specific, there's a couple that touch generic code (with Acks). At the moment there's one conflict with acme's tree, but it's not too bad. Still just in case some other conflicts show up, we've put these in a topic branch so another tree could merge some or all of it if necessary.
2017-04-24powerpc/kprobes: Prefer ftrace when probing function entryNaveen N. Rao
KPROBES_ON_FTRACE avoids much of the overhead of regular kprobes as it eliminates the need for a trap, as well as the need to emulate or single-step instructions. Though OPTPROBES provides us with similar performance, we have limited optprobes trampoline slots. As such, when asked to probe at a function entry, default to using the ftrace infrastructure. With: # cd /sys/kernel/debug/tracing # echo 'p _do_fork' > kprobe_events before patch: # cat ../kprobes/list c0000000000daf08 k _do_fork+0x8 [DISABLED] c000000000044fc0 k kretprobe_trampoline+0x0 [OPTIMIZED] and after patch: # cat ../kprobes/list c0000000000d074c k _do_fork+0xc [DISABLED][FTRACE] c0000000000412b0 k kretprobe_trampoline+0x0 [OPTIMIZED] Signed-off-by: Naveen N. Rao <naveen.n.rao@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au>
2017-04-24powerpc/kprobes: Add support for KPROBES_ON_FTRACENaveen N. Rao
Allow kprobes to be placed on ftrace _mcount() call sites. This optimization avoids the use of a trap, by riding on ftrace infrastructure. This depends on HAVE_DYNAMIC_FTRACE_WITH_REGS which depends on MPROFILE_KERNEL, which is only currently enabled on powerpc64le with newer toolchains. Based on the x86 code by Masami. Signed-off-by: Naveen N. Rao <naveen.n.rao@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au>
2017-04-23powerpc/kprobes: Blacklist exception handlersNaveen N. Rao
Introduce __head_end to mark end of the early fixed sections and use it to blacklist all exception handlers from kprobes. mpe: We do not need to do anything special for relocatable kernels, where the exception vectors are split from the main kernel, as the split vectors are already excluded by the check for kernel_text_address(). Signed-off-by: Naveen N. Rao <naveen.n.rao@linux.vnet.ibm.com> [mpe: Move __head_end outside #ifdef 64-bit to unbreak the 32-bit build] Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au>
2017-04-23powerpc/kprobes: Convert __kprobes to NOKPROBE_SYMBOL()Naveen N. Rao
Along similar lines as commit 9326638cbee2 ("kprobes, x86: Use NOKPROBE_SYMBOL() instead of __kprobes annotation"), convert __kprobes annotation to either NOKPROBE_SYMBOL() or nokprobe_inline. The latter forces inlining, in which case the caller needs to be added to NOKPROBE_SYMBOL(). Also: - blacklist arch_deref_entry_point(), and - convert a few regular inlines to nokprobe_inline in lib/sstep.c A key benefit is the ability to detect such symbols as being blacklisted. Before this patch: $ cat /sys/kernel/debug/kprobes/blacklist | grep read_mem $ perf probe read_mem Failed to write event: Invalid argument Error: Failed to add events. $ dmesg | tail -1 [ 3736.112815] Could not insert probe at _text+10014968: -22 After patch: $ cat /sys/kernel/debug/kprobes/blacklist | grep read_mem 0xc000000000072b50-0xc000000000072d20 read_mem $ perf probe read_mem read_mem is blacklisted function, skip it. Added new events: (null):(null) (on read_mem) probe:read_mem (on read_mem) You can now use it in all perf tools, such as: perf record -e probe:read_mem -aR sleep 1 $ grep " read_mem" /proc/kallsyms c000000000072b50 t read_mem c0000000005f3b40 t read_mem $ cat /sys/kernel/debug/kprobes/list c0000000005f3b48 k read_mem+0x8 [DISABLED] Acked-by: Masami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Naveen N. Rao <naveen.n.rao@linux.vnet.ibm.com> [mpe: Minor change log formatting, fix up some conflicts] Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au>