From: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>
To: Sasha Levin <sashal@kernel.org>
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org, Paulo Andrade <pandrade@redhat.com>,
"Peter Zijlstra (Intel)" <peterz@infradead.org>,
linux-trace-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
linux-perf-users@vger.kernel.org
Subject: [PATCH 6.1.y] x86/uprobes: Fix XOL allocation failure for 32-bit tasks
Date: Mon, 2 Mar 2026 16:36:12 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <aaWubGOJwB8CsLVy@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20260301014209.1703943-1-sashal@kernel.org>
[ Upstream commit d55c571e4333fac71826e8db3b9753fadfbead6a ]
This script
#!/usr/bin/bash
echo 0 > /proc/sys/kernel/randomize_va_space
echo 'void main(void) {}' > TEST.c
# -fcf-protection to ensure that the 1st endbr32 insn can't be emulated
gcc -m32 -fcf-protection=branch TEST.c -o test
bpftrace -e 'uprobe:./test:main {}' -c ./test
"hangs", the probed ./test task enters an endless loop.
The problem is that with randomize_va_space == 0
get_unmapped_area(TASK_SIZE - PAGE_SIZE) called by xol_add_vma() can not
just return the "addr == TASK_SIZE - PAGE_SIZE" hint, this addr is used
by the stack vma.
arch_get_unmapped_area_topdown() doesn't take TIF_ADDR32 into account and
in_32bit_syscall() is false, this leads to info.high_limit > TASK_SIZE.
vm_unmapped_area() happily returns the high address > TASK_SIZE and then
get_unmapped_area() returns -ENOMEM after the "if (addr > TASK_SIZE - len)"
check.
handle_swbp() doesn't report this failure (probably it should) and silently
restarts the probed insn. Endless loop.
I think that the right fix should change the x86 get_unmapped_area() paths
to rely on TIF_ADDR32 rather than in_32bit_syscall(). Note also that if
CONFIG_X86_X32_ABI=y, in_x32_syscall() falsely returns true in this case
because ->orig_ax = -1.
But we need a simple fix for -stable, so this patch just sets TS_COMPAT if
the probed task is 32-bit to make in_ia32_syscall() true.
Fixes: 1b028f784e8c ("x86/mm: Introduce mmap_compat_base() for 32-bit mmap()")
Reported-by: Paulo Andrade <pandrade@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/all/aV5uldEvV7pb4RA8@redhat.com/
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/aWO7Fdxn39piQnxu@redhat.com
---
arch/x86/kernel/uprobes.c | 24 ++++++++++++++++++++++++
include/linux/uprobes.h | 1 +
kernel/events/uprobes.c | 10 +++++++---
3 files changed, 32 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)
diff --git a/arch/x86/kernel/uprobes.c b/arch/x86/kernel/uprobes.c
index 6c07f6daaa22..6b431589305b 100644
--- a/arch/x86/kernel/uprobes.c
+++ b/arch/x86/kernel/uprobes.c
@@ -1097,3 +1097,27 @@ bool arch_uretprobe_is_alive(struct return_instance *ret, enum rp_check ctx,
else
return regs->sp <= ret->stack;
}
+
+#ifdef CONFIG_IA32_EMULATION
+unsigned long arch_uprobe_get_xol_area(void)
+{
+ struct thread_info *ti = current_thread_info();
+ unsigned long vaddr;
+
+ /*
+ * HACK: we are not in a syscall, but x86 get_unmapped_area() paths
+ * ignore TIF_ADDR32 and rely on in_32bit_syscall() to calculate
+ * vm_unmapped_area_info.high_limit.
+ *
+ * The #ifdef above doesn't cover the CONFIG_X86_X32_ABI=y case,
+ * but in this case in_32bit_syscall() -> in_x32_syscall() always
+ * (falsely) returns true because ->orig_ax == -1.
+ */
+ if (test_thread_flag(TIF_ADDR32))
+ ti->status |= TS_COMPAT;
+ vaddr = get_unmapped_area(NULL, TASK_SIZE - PAGE_SIZE, PAGE_SIZE, 0, 0);
+ ti->status &= ~TS_COMPAT;
+
+ return vaddr;
+}
+#endif
diff --git a/include/linux/uprobes.h b/include/linux/uprobes.h
index d91e32aff5a1..a5ec2b024a22 100644
--- a/include/linux/uprobes.h
+++ b/include/linux/uprobes.h
@@ -140,6 +140,7 @@ extern bool arch_uretprobe_is_alive(struct return_instance *ret, enum rp_check c
extern bool arch_uprobe_ignore(struct arch_uprobe *aup, struct pt_regs *regs);
extern void arch_uprobe_copy_ixol(struct page *page, unsigned long vaddr,
void *src, unsigned long len);
+extern unsigned long arch_uprobe_get_xol_area(void);
#else /* !CONFIG_UPROBES */
struct uprobes_state {
};
diff --git a/kernel/events/uprobes.c b/kernel/events/uprobes.c
index 29c0e7c6a6d2..692c0fae8ce1 100644
--- a/kernel/events/uprobes.c
+++ b/kernel/events/uprobes.c
@@ -1441,6 +1441,12 @@ void uprobe_munmap(struct vm_area_struct *vma, unsigned long start, unsigned lon
set_bit(MMF_RECALC_UPROBES, &vma->vm_mm->flags);
}
+unsigned long __weak arch_uprobe_get_xol_area(void)
+{
+ /* Try to map as high as possible, this is only a hint. */
+ return get_unmapped_area(NULL, TASK_SIZE - PAGE_SIZE, PAGE_SIZE, 0, 0);
+}
+
/* Slot allocation for XOL */
static int xol_add_vma(struct mm_struct *mm, struct xol_area *area)
{
@@ -1456,9 +1462,7 @@ static int xol_add_vma(struct mm_struct *mm, struct xol_area *area)
}
if (!area->vaddr) {
- /* Try to map as high as possible, this is only a hint. */
- area->vaddr = get_unmapped_area(NULL, TASK_SIZE - PAGE_SIZE,
- PAGE_SIZE, 0, 0);
+ area->vaddr = arch_uprobe_get_xol_area();
if (IS_ERR_VALUE(area->vaddr)) {
ret = area->vaddr;
goto fail;
--
2.52.0
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2026-03-01 1:42 FAILED: Patch "x86/uprobes: Fix XOL allocation failure for 32-bit tasks" failed to apply to 6.1-stable tree Sasha Levin
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