From: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@kernel.org>
To: Masami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@kernel.org>,
Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>,
Will Deacon <will@kernel.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>,
bpf@vger.kernel.org, linux-trace-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org, x86@kernel.org,
Yonghong Song <yhs@fb.com>, Song Liu <songliubraving@fb.com>,
Andrii Nakryiko <andrii@kernel.org>,
Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@arm.com>,
Mahe Tardy <mahe.tardy@gmail.com>
Subject: [BUG/RFC 1/2] arm64/ftrace,bpf: Fix partial regs after bpf_prog_run
Date: Wed, 5 Nov 2025 13:59:23 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20251105125924.365205-1-jolsa@kernel.org> (raw)
hi,
Mahe reported issue with bpf_override_return helper not working
when executed from kprobe.multi bpf program on arm.
The problem seems to be that on arm we use alternate storage for
pt_regs object that is passed to bpf_prog_run and if any register
is changed (which is the case of bpf_override_return) it's not
propagated back to actual pt_regs object.
The change below seems to fix the issue, but I have no idea if
that's proper fix for arm, thoughts?
I'm attaching selftest to actually test bpf_override_return helper
functionality, because currently we only test that we are able to
attach a program with it, but not the override itself.
thanks,
jirka
---
arch/arm64/include/asm/ftrace.h | 11 +++++++++++
include/linux/ftrace.h | 3 +++
kernel/trace/bpf_trace.c | 1 +
3 files changed, 15 insertions(+)
diff --git a/arch/arm64/include/asm/ftrace.h b/arch/arm64/include/asm/ftrace.h
index ba7cf7fec5e9..ad6cf587885c 100644
--- a/arch/arm64/include/asm/ftrace.h
+++ b/arch/arm64/include/asm/ftrace.h
@@ -157,6 +157,17 @@ ftrace_partial_regs(const struct ftrace_regs *fregs, struct pt_regs *regs)
return regs;
}
+static __always_inline void
+ftrace_partial_regs_fix(const struct ftrace_regs *fregs, struct pt_regs *regs)
+{
+ struct __arch_ftrace_regs *afregs = arch_ftrace_regs(fregs);
+
+ if (afregs->pc != regs->pc) {
+ afregs->pc = regs->pc;
+ afregs->regs[0] = regs->regs[0];
+ }
+}
+
#define arch_ftrace_fill_perf_regs(fregs, _regs) do { \
(_regs)->pc = arch_ftrace_regs(fregs)->pc; \
(_regs)->regs[29] = arch_ftrace_regs(fregs)->fp; \
diff --git a/include/linux/ftrace.h b/include/linux/ftrace.h
index 7ded7df6e9b5..4cb1315522bb 100644
--- a/include/linux/ftrace.h
+++ b/include/linux/ftrace.h
@@ -205,6 +205,9 @@ ftrace_partial_regs(struct ftrace_regs *fregs, struct pt_regs *regs)
return &arch_ftrace_regs(fregs)->regs;
}
+static __always_inline void
+ftrace_partial_regs_fix(struct ftrace_regs *fregs, struct pt_regs *regs) { }
+
#endif /* !CONFIG_HAVE_DYNAMIC_FTRACE_WITH_ARGS || CONFIG_HAVE_FTRACE_REGS_HAVING_PT_REGS */
#ifdef CONFIG_HAVE_DYNAMIC_FTRACE_WITH_ARGS
diff --git a/kernel/trace/bpf_trace.c b/kernel/trace/bpf_trace.c
index a795f7afbf3d..7b5768ced9b3 100644
--- a/kernel/trace/bpf_trace.c
+++ b/kernel/trace/bpf_trace.c
@@ -2564,6 +2564,7 @@ kprobe_multi_link_prog_run(struct bpf_kprobe_multi_link *link,
old_run_ctx = bpf_set_run_ctx(&run_ctx.session_ctx.run_ctx);
err = bpf_prog_run(link->link.prog, regs);
bpf_reset_run_ctx(old_run_ctx);
+ ftrace_partial_regs_fix(fregs, bpf_kprobe_multi_pt_regs_ptr());
rcu_read_unlock();
out:
--
2.51.1
next reply other threads:[~2025-11-05 12:59 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2025-11-05 12:59 Jiri Olsa [this message]
2025-11-05 12:59 ` [PATCH 2/2] selftests/bpf: Add test for bpf_override_return helper Jiri Olsa
2025-11-05 22:04 ` Song Liu
2025-11-13 7:51 ` [BUG/RFC 1/2] arm64/ftrace,bpf: Fix partial regs after bpf_prog_run Jiri Olsa
2026-01-02 14:52 ` Will Deacon
2026-01-04 11:56 ` Jiri Olsa
2026-01-04 13:34 ` Masami Hiramatsu
2026-01-05 21:22 ` Steven Rostedt
2026-01-07 8:23 ` Jiri Olsa
2026-01-07 15:53 ` Steven Rostedt
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