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[PATCH] kprobes: Skip disarmed probes when checking optkprobe overlap

From: Leon Hwang <hidden>
Date: 2026-09-30 05:36:34
Also in: lkml, stable
Subsystem: kprobes, the rest · Maintainers: Naveen N Rao, "David S. Miller", Masami Hiramatsu, Linus Torvalds

On x86, an optkprobe at A replaces five bytes with a jump. If a disabled
probe B is at A+2, get_optimized_kprobe() stops at B when arming a new
probe C at A+4. It leaves A optimized:

              A    A+1  A+2  A+3  A+4
  A's jump  | e9 | d0 | d1 | d2 | d3 |
  after C   | e9 | d0 | d1 | d2 | cc |

The INT3 for C overwrites the last byte of A's jump displacement, so
execution can jump to the wrong address. B can have prepared optinsns
while disarmed, but has no jump to unoptimize.

Continue past disarmed and unprepared probes to find the active optimized
probe before arming a probe in its jump.

Fixes: afd66255b9a4 ("kprobes: Introduce kprobes jump optimization")
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Leon Hwang <redacted>
---
 kernel/kprobes.c | 8 +++++---
 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)
diff --git a/kernel/kprobes.c b/kernel/kprobes.c
index 6337da5cab9e..e6f6e18fa1b5 100644
--- a/kernel/kprobes.c
+++ b/kernel/kprobes.c
@@ -495,14 +495,16 @@ static bool kprobe_queued(struct kprobe *p)
 static struct kprobe *get_optimized_kprobe(kprobe_opcode_t *addr)
 {
 	int i;
-	struct kprobe *p = NULL;
+	struct kprobe *p;
 	struct optimized_kprobe *op;
 
 	/* Don't check i == 0, since that is a breakpoint case. */
-	for (i = 1; !p && i < MAX_OPTIMIZED_LENGTH / sizeof(kprobe_opcode_t); i++)
+	for (i = 1; i < MAX_OPTIMIZED_LENGTH / sizeof(kprobe_opcode_t); i++) {
 		p = get_kprobe(addr - i);
+		/* A disabled probe can have prepared, but inactive, optinsns. */
+		if (!p || !kprobe_optready(p) || kprobe_disarmed(p))
+			continue;
 
-	if (p && kprobe_optready(p)) {
 		op = container_of(p, struct optimized_kprobe, kp);
 		if (arch_within_optimized_kprobe(op, addr))
 			return p;
-- 
2.55.0
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