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[PATCH 2/2] sparc64: uprobes: fix relbranch_fixup() for BPr, FBfcc and FBPfcc

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From: Danish Khateeb <hidden>
Date: 2026-09-23 14:54:29
Also in: lkml, sparclinux, stable
Subsystem: sparc + ultrasparc (sparc/sparc64), the rest, uprobes · Maintainers: "David S. Miller", Andreas Larsson, Linus Torvalds, Masami Hiramatsu, Oleg Nesterov, Peter Zijlstra

uprobes single-step a copy of the probed instruction in an XOL slot.
When the copy is a taken PC-relative branch, its target is relative to
the slot, and relbranch_fixup() moves it back to the probed code. Like
its kprobes counterpart, it only recognizes call, BPcc and Bicc. After a
taken BPr (brz, brnz, ...), FBfcc or FBPfcc, the task continues at the
slot's address plus the branch displacement, inside the XOL page, and
dies with SIGILL.

GCC often emits a BPr as a function's first instruction, so a plain
function-entry uprobe can kill the probed program. In QEMU sun4u, with a
uprobe on a "brz,pn %o0, 1f", the first call with %o0 == 0 ends with

  init: potentially unexpected fatal signal 4.
  TSTATE: 0000000082000203 TPC: fffffffbffffe01c TNPC: fffffffbffffe020

where the task's [uprobes] mapping is fffffffbffffe000-fffffffc00000000.
FBfcc and FBPfcc behave the same.

Add the missing branch formats, as for kprobes.

Fixes: e8f4aa6087fa ("sparc64:Support User Probes for sparc")
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Assisted-by: LLM
Signed-off-by: Danish Khateeb <redacted>
---
 arch/sparc/kernel/uprobes.c | 13 ++++++++-----
 1 file changed, 8 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-)
diff --git a/arch/sparc/kernel/uprobes.c b/arch/sparc/kernel/uprobes.c
index c8cac64e9988..c8ba033427ba 100644
--- a/arch/sparc/kernel/uprobes.c
+++ b/arch/sparc/kernel/uprobes.c
@@ -97,12 +97,15 @@ static unsigned long relbranch_fixup(u32 insn, struct uprobe_task *utask,
 	if (regs->tnpc == regs->tpc + 0x4UL)
 		return utask->autask.saved_tnpc + 0x4UL;
 
-	/* The three cases are call, branch w/prediction,
-	 * and traditional branch.
+	/* The cases are call and the branches with a PC-relative
+	 * displacement.
 	 */
-	if ((insn & 0xc0000000) == 0x40000000 ||
-	    (insn & 0xc1c00000) == 0x00400000 ||
-	    (insn & 0xc1c00000) == 0x00800000) {
+	if ((insn & 0xc0000000) == 0x40000000 ||	/* call */
+	    (insn & 0xc1c00000) == 0x00400000 ||	/* BPcc */
+	    (insn & 0xc1c00000) == 0x00800000 ||	/* Bicc */
+	    (insn & 0xd1c00000) == 0x00c00000 ||	/* BPr */
+	    (insn & 0xc1c00000) == 0x01400000 ||	/* FBPfcc */
+	    (insn & 0xc1c00000) == 0x01800000) {	/* FBfcc */
 		unsigned long real_pc = (unsigned long) utask->vaddr;
 		unsigned long ixol_addr = utask->xol_vaddr;
 
-- 
2.55.0
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