From e113f0b46d19626ec15388bcb91432c9a4fd6261 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: "Masami Hiramatsu (Google)" Date: Fri, 13 Mar 2026 23:14:14 +0900 Subject: [PATCH 1/2] kprobes: avoid crash when rmmod/insmod after ftrace killed 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: 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 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) Acked-by: Steven Rostedt (Google) --- kernel/kprobes.c | 4 ++++ 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+) diff --git a/kernel/kprobes.c b/kernel/kprobes.c index ab25b4aa9095..025af57ad3ed 100644 --- a/kernel/kprobes.c +++ b/kernel/kprobes.c @@ -1178,6 +1178,10 @@ static int __disarm_kprobe_ftrace(struct kprobe *p, struct ftrace_ops *ops, 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); From 5ef268cb7a0aac55521fd9881f1939fa94a8988e Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: "Masami Hiramatsu (Google)" Date: Fri, 13 Mar 2026 23:04:11 +0900 Subject: [PATCH 2/2] kprobes: Remove unneeded warnings from __arm_kprobe_ftrace() Remove unneeded warnings for handled errors from __arm_kprobe_ftrace() because all caller handled the error correctly. Link: https://lore.kernel.org/all/177261531182.1312989.8737778408503961141.stgit@mhiramat.tok.corp.google.com/ Reported-by: Zw Tang Closes: https://lore.kernel.org/all/CAPHJ_V+J6YDb_wX2nhXU6kh466Dt_nyDSas-1i_Y8s7tqY-Mzw@mail.gmail.com/ Fixes: 9c89bb8e3272 ("kprobes: treewide: Cleanup the error messages for kprobes") Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org Signed-off-by: Masami Hiramatsu (Google) --- kernel/kprobes.c | 4 ++-- 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) diff --git a/kernel/kprobes.c b/kernel/kprobes.c index 025af57ad3ed..bfc89083daa9 100644 --- a/kernel/kprobes.c +++ b/kernel/kprobes.c @@ -1144,12 +1144,12 @@ static int __arm_kprobe_ftrace(struct kprobe *p, struct ftrace_ops *ops, lockdep_assert_held(&kprobe_mutex); ret = ftrace_set_filter_ip(ops, (unsigned long)p->addr, 0, 0); - if (WARN_ONCE(ret < 0, "Failed to arm kprobe-ftrace at %pS (error %d)\n", p->addr, ret)) + if (ret < 0) return ret; if (*cnt == 0) { ret = register_ftrace_function(ops); - if (WARN(ret < 0, "Failed to register kprobe-ftrace (error %d)\n", ret)) { + if (ret < 0) { /* * At this point, sinec ops is not registered, we should be sefe from * registering empty filter.