Re: [PATCH bpf-next 1/2] arm64/ftrace,bpf: Fix partial regs after bpf_prog_run
From: Will Deacon <will@kernel.org>
Date: 2026-01-07 14:16:11
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bpf, linux-trace-kernel
On Wed, Jan 07, 2026 at 10:32:55AM +0100, Jiri Olsa wrote:
quoted hunk ↗ jump to hunk
Mahe reported issue with bpf_override_return helper not working when executed from kprobe.multi bpf program on arm. The problem is 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. Fixing this by introducing and calling ftrace_partial_regs_update function to propagate the values of changed registers (ip and stack). Fixes: b9b55c8912ce ("tracing: Add ftrace_partial_regs() for converting ftrace_regs to pt_regs") Reported-by: Mahe Tardy <redacted> Signed-off-by: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@kernel.org> --- v1 changes: - used ftrace_partial_regs_update with comments from Steven arch/arm64/include/asm/ftrace.h | 24 ++++++++++++++++++++++++ include/linux/ftrace.h | 3 +++ kernel/trace/bpf_trace.c | 1 + 3 files changed, 28 insertions(+)diff --git a/arch/arm64/include/asm/ftrace.h b/arch/arm64/include/asm/ftrace.h index 1621c84f44b3..177c7bbf3b84 100644 --- a/arch/arm64/include/asm/ftrace.h +++ b/arch/arm64/include/asm/ftrace.h@@ -157,6 +157,30 @@ ftrace_partial_regs(const struct ftrace_regs *fregs, struct pt_regs *regs) return regs; } +/* + * ftrace_partial_regs_update - update the original ftrace_regs from regs + * @fregs: The ftrace_regs to update from @regs + * @regs: The partial regs from ftrace_partial_regs() that was updated + * + * Some architectures have the partial regs living in the ftrace_regs + * structure, whereas other architectures need to make a different copy + * of the @regs. If a partial @regs is retrieved by ftrace_partial_regs() and + * if the code using @regs updates a field (like the instruction pointer or + * stack pointer) it may need to propagate that change to the original @fregs + * it retrieved the partial @regs from. Use this function to guarantee that + * update happens. + */ +static __always_inline void +ftrace_partial_regs_update(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]; + } +}
I still don't understand why we need anything new in the arch code for this. We've selected HAVE_ARCH_FTRACE_REGS and we implement ftrace_regs_set_instruction_pointer() and ftrace_regs_set_return_value() so the core code already has everything it needs to make this work without additional arch support. Will