[PATCH 6.12 282/460] x86/uprobes: Fix XOL allocation failure for 32-bit tasks

Greg Kroah-Hartman
2026-03-23T14:43:20Z

6.12-stable review patch. If anyone has any objections, please let me know.

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From: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>

[ 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
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
---
arch/x86/kernel/uprobes.c | 24 ++++++++++++++++++++++++
include/linux/uprobes.h | 1 +
kernel/events/uprobes.c | 10 +++++++---
3 files changed, 32 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)

--- a/arch/x86/kernel/uprobes.c
+++ b/arch/x86/kernel/uprobes.c
@@ -1223,3 +1223,27 @@ bool arch_uretprobe_is_alive(struct retu
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
--- a/include/linux/uprobes.h
+++ b/include/linux/uprobes.h
@@ -146,6 +146,7 @@ extern void arch_uprobe_copy_ixol(struct
extern void uprobe_handle_trampoline(struct pt_regs *regs);
extern void *arch_uprobe_trampoline(unsigned long *psize);
extern unsigned long uprobe_get_trampoline_vaddr(void);
+extern unsigned long arch_uprobe_get_xol_area(void);
#else /* !CONFIG_UPROBES */
struct uprobes_state {
};
--- a/kernel/events/uprobes.c
+++ b/kernel/events/uprobes.c
@@ -1493,6 +1493,12 @@ static const struct vm_special_mapping x
.fault = xol_fault,
};

+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)
{
@@ -1508,9 +1514,7 @@ static int xol_add_vma(struct mm_struct
}

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;