[PATCH 6.6 293/567] kprobes: avoid crash when rmmod/insmod after ftrace killed

Greg Kroah-Hartman
2026-03-23T15:06:29Z

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

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From: Masami Hiramatsu (Google) <mhiramat@kernel.org>

commit e113f0b46d19626ec15388bcb91432c9a4fd6261 upstream.

After we hit ftrace is killed by some errors, the kernel crash if
we remove modules in which kprobe probes.

BUG: unable to handle page fault for address: fffffbfff805000d
PGD 817fcc067 P4D 817fcc067 PUD 817fc8067 PMD 101555067 PTE 0
Oops: Oops: 0000 [#1] SMP KASAN PTI
CPU: 4 UID: 0 PID: 2012 Comm: rmmod Tainted: G W OE
Tainted: [W]=WARN, [O]=OOT_MODULE, [E]=UNSIGNED_MODULE
RIP: 0010:kprobes_module_callback+0x89/0x790
RSP: 0018:ffff88812e157d30 EFLAGS: 00010a02
RAX: 1ffffffff805000d RBX: dffffc0000000000 RCX: ffffffff86a8de90
RDX: ffffed1025c2af9b RSI: 0000000000000008 RDI: ffffffffc0280068
RBP: 0000000000000000 R08: 0000000000000001 R09: ffffed1025c2af9a
R10: ffff88812e157cd7 R11: 205d323130325420 R12: 0000000000000002
R13: ffffffffc0290488 R14: 0000000000000002 R15: ffffffffc0280040
FS: 00007fbc450dd740(0000) GS:ffff888420331000(0000) knlGS:0000000000000000
CS: 0010 DS: 0000 ES: 0000 CR0: 0000000080050033
CR2: fffffbfff805000d CR3: 000000010f624000 CR4: 00000000000006f0
Call Trace:
<TASK>
notifier_call_chain+0xc6/0x280
blocking_notifier_call_chain+0x60/0x90
__do_sys_delete_module.constprop.0+0x32a/0x4e0
do_syscall_64+0x5d/0xfa0
entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x76/0x7e

This is because the kprobe on ftrace does not correctly handles
the kprobe_ftrace_disabled flag set by ftrace_kill().

To prevent this error, check kprobe_ftrace_disabled in
__disarm_kprobe_ftrace() and skip all ftrace related operations.

Link: https://lore.kernel.org/all/176473947565.1727781.13110060700668331950.stgit@mhiramat.tok.corp.google.com/

Reported-by: Ye Bin <yebin10@huawei.com>
Closes: https://lore.kernel.org/all/20251125020536.2484381-1-yebin@huaweicloud.com/
Fixes: ae6aa16fdc16 ("kprobes: introduce ftrace based optimization")
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Masami Hiramatsu (Google) <mhiramat@kernel.org>
Acked-by: Steven Rostedt (Google) <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
---
kernel/kprobes.c | 4 ++++
1 file changed, 4 insertions(+)

--- a/kernel/kprobes.c
+++ b/kernel/kprobes.c
@@ -1114,6 +1114,10 @@ static int __disarm_kprobe_ftrace(struct
int ret;

lockdep_assert_held(&kprobe_mutex);
+ if (unlikely(kprobe_ftrace_disabled)) {
+ /* Now ftrace is disabled forever, disarm is already done. */
+ return 0;
+ }

if (*cnt == 1) {
ret = unregister_ftrace_function(ops);