[RFC 2/3] arm64: kprobes: Allow reentering kprobes while single-stepping
From: Pu Hu <hidden>
Date: 2026-07-06 08:37:09
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arm64 port (aarch64 architecture), the rest · Maintainers:
Catalin Marinas, Will Deacon, Linus Torvalds
From: Pu Hu <redacted>
A kprobe can be hit while another kprobe is in KPROBE_HIT_SS state. This
can happen when tracing or perf code runs from the debug exception path
while the first kprobe is preparing or executing its out-of-line
single-step instruction.
Currently arm64 treats a kprobe hit in KPROBE_HIT_SS as unrecoverable,
the same as a hit in KPROBE_REENTER. This is too strict. A hit in
KPROBE_HIT_SS is still a one-level reentry and can be handled by saving
the current kprobe state and setting up single-step for the new probe,
just like reentry from KPROBE_HIT_ACTIVE or KPROBE_HIT_SSDONE.
The truly unrecoverable case is hitting another kprobe while already in
KPROBE_REENTER, because the reentry save area has already been consumed.
Move KPROBE_HIT_SS to the recoverable reentry cases and leave
KPROBE_REENTER as the unrecoverable nested reentry case.
This mirrors the x86 fix in commit 6a5022a56ac3
("kprobes/x86: Allow to handle reentered kprobe on single-stepping").
Signed-off-by: Pu Hu <redacted>
Signed-off-by: Hongyan Xia <redacted>
---
arch/arm64/kernel/probes/kprobes.c | 8 +++++++-
1 file changed, 7 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
diff --git a/arch/arm64/kernel/probes/kprobes.c b/arch/arm64/kernel/probes/kprobes.c
index e4d2852ce2fb..764b2228cca0 100644
--- a/arch/arm64/kernel/probes/kprobes.c
+++ b/arch/arm64/kernel/probes/kprobes.c@@ -240,10 +240,16 @@ static int __kprobes reenter_kprobe(struct kprobe *p, switch (kcb->kprobe_status) { case KPROBE_HIT_SSDONE: case KPROBE_HIT_ACTIVE: + case KPROBE_HIT_SS: + /* + * A probe can be hit while another kprobe is preparing or + * executing its XOL single-step instruction. This is still a + * recoverable one-level reentry, so handle it in the same way as + * reentry from KPROBE_HIT_ACTIVE or KPROBE_HIT_SSDONE. + */ kprobes_inc_nmissed_count(p); setup_singlestep(p, regs, kcb, 1); break; - case KPROBE_HIT_SS: case KPROBE_REENTER: pr_warn("Failed to recover from reentered kprobes.\n"); dump_kprobe(p);
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