Re: [PATCH] uprobes/x86: allow to probe a "nop" insn with 0x66 prefix

From: Google
Date: Thu Dec 01 2022 - 17:30:17 EST


On Thu, 1 Dec 2022 15:26:44 +0100
Oleg Nesterov <oleg@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> From: Denys Vlasenko <dvlasenk@xxxxxxxxxx>
>
> Intel icc -hotpatch inserts 2-byte "0x66 0x90" NOP at the start of each
> function to reserve extra space for hot-patching, and currently it is not
> possible to probe these functions because branch_setup_xol_ops() wrongly
> nacks NOP with REP prefix.

Looks good to me.

Acked-by: Masami Hiramatsu (Google) <mhiramat@xxxxxxxxxx>

Thank you!

>
> Fixes: 250bbd12c2fe ("uprobes/x86: Refuse to attach uprobe to "word-sized" branch insns")
> Reported-by: Seiji Nishikawa <snishika@xxxxxxxxxx>
> Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@xxxxxxxxxx>
> ---
> arch/x86/kernel/uprobes.c | 4 +++-
> 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
>
> diff --git a/arch/x86/kernel/uprobes.c b/arch/x86/kernel/uprobes.c
> index b63cf8f7745e..6c07f6daaa22 100644
> --- a/arch/x86/kernel/uprobes.c
> +++ b/arch/x86/kernel/uprobes.c
> @@ -722,8 +722,9 @@ static int branch_setup_xol_ops(struct arch_uprobe *auprobe, struct insn *insn)
> switch (opc1) {
> case 0xeb: /* jmp 8 */
> case 0xe9: /* jmp 32 */
> - case 0x90: /* prefix* + nop; same as jmp with .offs = 0 */
> break;
> + case 0x90: /* prefix* + nop; same as jmp with .offs = 0 */
> + goto setup;
>
> case 0xe8: /* call relative */
> branch_clear_offset(auprobe, insn);
> @@ -753,6 +754,7 @@ static int branch_setup_xol_ops(struct arch_uprobe *auprobe, struct insn *insn)
> return -ENOTSUPP;
> }
>
> +setup:
> auprobe->branch.opc1 = opc1;
> auprobe->branch.ilen = insn->length;
> auprobe->branch.offs = insn->immediate.value;
> --
> 2.25.1.362.g51ebf55
>
>


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Masami Hiramatsu (Google) <mhiramat@xxxxxxxxxx>