On Sat, Jun 27, 2026 at 1:14 PM David Windsor <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> On Tue, Jun 23, 2026 at 9:25 AM Oleg Nesterov <[email protected]> wrote:
> >
> > On 06/23, Peter Zijlstra wrote:
> > >
> > > On Tue, Jun 23, 2026 at 02:52:32PM +0200, Oleg Nesterov wrote:
> > > > On 06/22, David Windsor wrote:
> > > > >
> > > > > --- a/arch/x86/kernel/uprobes.c
> > > > > +++ b/arch/x86/kernel/uprobes.c
> > > > > @@ -1246,8 +1246,12 @@ static int default_post_xol_op(struct 
> > > > > arch_uprobe *auprobe, struct pt_regs *regs
> > > > >           long correction = utask->vaddr - utask->xol_vaddr;
> > > > >           regs->ip += correction;
> > > > >   } else if (auprobe->defparam.fixups & UPROBE_FIX_CALL) {
> > > > > +         unsigned long retaddr = utask->vaddr + 
> > > > > auprobe->defparam.ilen;
> > > > > +
> > > > >           regs->sp += sizeof_long(regs); /* Pop incorrect return 
> > > > > address */
> > > > > -         if (emulate_push_stack(regs, utask->vaddr + 
> > > > > auprobe->defparam.ilen))
> > > > > +         if (emulate_push_stack(regs, retaddr))
> > > > > +                 return -ERESTART;
> > > > > +         if (shstk_update_last_frame(retaddr))
> > > > >                   return -ERESTART;
> > > >
> > > > Well, if shstk_update_last_frame() fails after emulate_push_stack(), we 
> > > > should
> > > > probably return another error, so that the caller handle_singlestep() 
> > > > will kill
> > > > this task?
> > >
> > > Makes sense, the other user has a force_sig(SIGSEGV) on failure.
> >
> > Offtopic question... both shstk_update_last_frame() and shstk_push() are 
> > only
> > used by arch/x86/kernel/uprobes.c. But they are not symmetric in that
> > shstk_update_last_frame() returns 0 if !features_enabled(ARCH_SHSTK_SHSTK),
> > while shstk_push() returns -ENOTSUPP in this case.
> >
> > That is why the users can't just do "if (shstk_push(xxx)) ...". This is 
> > really
> > minor, but perhaps it makes sense to change shstk_push() to return 0 in this
> > case too? I don't think -ENOTSUPP is actually useful...
> >
>
> Agreed, will send a follow-up patch changing shstk_push() to return 0
> rather than -ENOTSUPP.
>
> I'll send v2 shortly with the additional call to force_sig(SIGSEGV) to
> balance out the callers.
>

Actually, we don't need to force_sig() ourselves in this case, the
handle_singlestep() path will take care of that. We just need to
return something that's not -ERESTART. You may have meant that in your
reply, but just noting it for the record for when I send v2.

> > Oleg.
> >

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