[GIT PULL] probes: Fixes for v7.3-rc1

From: Google

Date: Fri Sep 04 2026 - 04:54:39 EST


Linus,

Probes fixes for v7.3-rc1:

- kprobes: Protect kprobe_blacklist with RCU
. RCU-protect kprobe_blacklist and use kfree_rcu() to prevent UAF
races during module unloading and enable safe atomic lookups.
- tracing/probes: Fix multi-probe field use-after-free and BTF parsing
. Multi-probe UAF fix: Duplicate field and type strings on
trace_probe_event to prevent UAF when freeing primary probe.
. BTF member lookup fixes:
- Check the containing inner struct/union kflag when resolving
anonymous members to ensure correct bitfield offset calculation.
- Prevent unnamed bitfields from being pushed to anon_stack in
btf_find_struct_member(), avoiding false lookup errors.
- Fix code block indentation in get_bitoffset_of_field().
- uprobes: Error pointer safety
. Guard free_trace_uprobe() with IS_ERR_OR_NULL() to avoid crashing
during automatic cleanup when an error pointer is returned.


Please pull the latest probes-fixes-v7.3-rc1 tree, which can be found at:


git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/trace/linux-trace.git
probes-fixes-v7.3-rc1

Tag SHA1: af3575e771353db2aef2a03f8b91a3a80d7ec513
Head SHA1: 0c4256196b3a105307e2235fbfd85e768bbcdd0f


Andi Kleen (1):
uprobes: guard trace cleanup against error pointers

Henry Martin (1):
tracing/probes: Fix use-after-free on field name/type of events with multiple probes

Masami Hiramatsu (Google) (4):
tracing/probes: Fix anon_stack check for unnamed bitfields in btf_find_struct_member
tracing/probes: Fix BTF kflag check for anonymous struct member access
tracing/probes: Fix code indent in get_bitoffset_of_field()
kprobes: Protect kprobe_blacklist with RCU

----
include/linux/kprobes.h | 1 +
kernel/kprobes.c | 14 +++++++---
kernel/trace/trace_btf.c | 31 ++++++++++++----------
kernel/trace/trace_btf.h | 3 ++-
kernel/trace/trace_probe.c | 63 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++------
kernel/trace/trace_probe.h | 2 ++
kernel/trace/trace_uprobe.c | 4 +--
7 files changed, 89 insertions(+), 29 deletions(-)
---------------------------
diff --git a/include/linux/kprobes.h b/include/linux/kprobes.h
index 8c4f3bb24429..e6de7ae55bda 100644
--- a/include/linux/kprobes.h
+++ b/include/linux/kprobes.h
@@ -181,6 +181,7 @@ struct kprobe_blacklist_entry {
struct list_head list;
unsigned long start_addr;
unsigned long end_addr;
+ struct rcu_head rcu;
};

#ifdef CONFIG_KPROBES
diff --git a/kernel/kprobes.c b/kernel/kprobes.c
index bfc89083daa9..6337da5cab9e 100644
--- a/kernel/kprobes.c
+++ b/kernel/kprobes.c
@@ -1447,8 +1447,14 @@ static bool __within_kprobe_blacklist(unsigned long addr)
/*
* If 'kprobe_blacklist' is defined, check the address and
* reject any probe registration in the prohibited area.
+ * Note: this can return true during transition period where
+ * (start_addr, end_addr) in the black list is shrinking
+ * but old entry has not been removed yet. This is acceptable
+ * because the worst case is that we reject more probes than
+ * we should.
*/
- list_for_each_entry(ent, &kprobe_blacklist, list) {
+ guard(rcu)();
+ list_for_each_entry_rcu(ent, &kprobe_blacklist, list) {
if (addr >= ent->start_addr && addr < ent->end_addr)
return true;
}
@@ -2509,7 +2515,7 @@ int kprobe_add_ksym_blacklist(unsigned long entry)
ent->start_addr = entry;
ent->end_addr = entry + size;
INIT_LIST_HEAD(&ent->list);
- list_add_tail(&ent->list, &kprobe_blacklist);
+ list_add_tail_rcu(&ent->list, &kprobe_blacklist);

return (int)size;
}
@@ -2603,8 +2609,8 @@ static void kprobe_remove_area_blacklist(unsigned long start, unsigned long end)
list_for_each_entry_safe(ent, n, &kprobe_blacklist, list) {
if (ent->start_addr < start || ent->start_addr >= end)
continue;
- list_del(&ent->list);
- kfree(ent);
+ list_del_rcu(&ent->list);
+ kfree_rcu(ent, rcu);
}
}

diff --git a/kernel/trace/trace_btf.c b/kernel/trace/trace_btf.c
index 00172f301f25..ee7a04886bf6 100644
--- a/kernel/trace/trace_btf.c
+++ b/kernel/trace/trace_btf.c
@@ -61,47 +61,50 @@ struct btf_anon_stack {

/*
* Find a member of data structure/union by name and return it.
- * Return NULL if not found, or -EINVAL if parameter is invalid.
- * If the member is an member of anonymous union/structure, the offset
- * of that anonymous union/structure is stored into @anon_offset. Caller
- * can calculate the correct offset from the root data structure by
- * adding anon_offset to the member's offset.
+ * Return NULL if not found, or ERR_PTR(-EINVAL) if parameter is invalid.
+ * If the member is a member of an anonymous union/structure, the bit offset
+ * of that anonymous union/structure is stored into @anon_offset.
+ * If @member_type is non-NULL, the actual containing structure/union type
+ * of the found member is stored into @member_type.
*/
const struct btf_member *btf_find_struct_member(struct btf *btf,
const struct btf_type *type,
const char *member_name,
- u32 *anon_offset)
+ u32 *anon_offset,
+ const struct btf_type **member_type)
{
struct btf_anon_stack *anon_stack;
const struct btf_member *member;
+ const struct btf_type *mtype;
u32 tid, cur_offset = 0;
const char *name;
int i, top = 0;

+ if (!btf_type_is_struct(type))
+ return ERR_PTR(-EINVAL);
+
anon_stack = kzalloc_objs(*anon_stack, BTF_ANON_STACK_MAX);
if (!anon_stack)
return ERR_PTR(-ENOMEM);

retry:
- if (!btf_type_is_struct(type)) {
- member = ERR_PTR(-EINVAL);
- goto out;
- }
-
for_each_member(i, type, member) {
if (!member->name_off) {
/* Anonymous union/struct: push it for later use */
- if (btf_type_skip_modifiers(btf, member->type, &tid) &&
+ mtype = btf_type_skip_modifiers(btf, member->type, &tid);
+ if (mtype && btf_type_is_struct(mtype) &&
top < BTF_ANON_STACK_MAX) {
anon_stack[top].tid = tid;
- anon_stack[top++].offset =
- cur_offset + member->offset;
+ anon_stack[top++].offset = cur_offset +
+ __btf_member_bit_offset(type, member);
}
} else {
name = btf_name_by_offset(btf, member->name_off);
if (name && !strcmp(member_name, name)) {
if (anon_offset)
*anon_offset = cur_offset;
+ if (member_type)
+ *member_type = type;
goto out;
}
}
diff --git a/kernel/trace/trace_btf.h b/kernel/trace/trace_btf.h
index 4bc44bc261e6..4bd26bceae23 100644
--- a/kernel/trace/trace_btf.h
+++ b/kernel/trace/trace_btf.h
@@ -8,4 +8,5 @@ const struct btf_param *btf_get_func_param(const struct btf_type *func_proto,
const struct btf_member *btf_find_struct_member(struct btf *btf,
const struct btf_type *type,
const char *member_name,
- u32 *anon_offset);
+ u32 *anon_offset,
+ const struct btf_type **member_type);
diff --git a/kernel/trace/trace_probe.c b/kernel/trace/trace_probe.c
index c4163904ba74..804442b2f7d2 100644
--- a/kernel/trace/trace_probe.c
+++ b/kernel/trace/trace_probe.c
@@ -625,6 +625,7 @@ static int get_bitoffset_of_field(char **pfieldname, const struct btf_type **pty
{
const struct btf_type *type = *ptype;
const struct btf_member *field;
+ const struct btf_type *mtype;
struct btf *btf = ctx_btf(ctx);
char *fieldname = *pfieldname;
int bitoffs = 0;
@@ -640,7 +641,7 @@ static int get_bitoffset_of_field(char **pfieldname, const struct btf_type **pty

anon_offs = 0;
field = btf_find_struct_member(btf, type, fieldname,
- &anon_offs);
+ &anon_offs, &mtype);
if (IS_ERR(field)) {
trace_probe_log_err(ctx->offset, BAD_BTF_TID);
return PTR_ERR(field);
@@ -653,7 +654,7 @@ static int get_bitoffset_of_field(char **pfieldname, const struct btf_type **pty
bitoffs += anon_offs;

/* Accumulate the bit-offsets of the dot-connected fields */
- if (btf_type_kflag(type)) {
+ if (btf_type_kflag(mtype)) {
bitoffs += BTF_MEMBER_BIT_OFFSET(field->offset);
ctx->last_bitsize = BTF_MEMBER_BITFIELD_SIZE(field->offset);
} else {
@@ -661,11 +662,11 @@ static int get_bitoffset_of_field(char **pfieldname, const struct btf_type **pty
ctx->last_bitsize = 0;
}

- type = btf_type_skip_modifiers(btf, field->type, NULL);
- if (!type) {
- trace_probe_log_err(ctx->offset, BAD_BTF_TID);
- return -EINVAL;
- }
+ type = btf_type_skip_modifiers(btf, field->type, NULL);
+ if (!type) {
+ trace_probe_log_err(ctx->offset, BAD_BTF_TID);
+ return -EINVAL;
+ }

if (next)
ctx->offset += next - fieldname;
@@ -2552,19 +2553,60 @@ int traceprobe_set_print_fmt(struct trace_probe *tp, enum probe_print_type ptype
int traceprobe_define_arg_fields(struct trace_event_call *event_call,
size_t offset, struct trace_probe *tp)
{
+ struct trace_probe_event *tpe = trace_probe_event_from_call(event_call);
int ret, i;

+ /*
+ * A field created by trace_define_field() only stores the name and
+ * type pointers, it does not copy the strings. Here they point into
+ * the probe_arg of @tp, which is freed when @tp is removed. For an
+ * event with multiple probes attached, the field list is defined
+ * once by the first probe but kept alive by the surviving siblings,
+ * so removing that first probe would leave the fields referencing
+ * freed memory. Duplicate the strings and anchor the copies on the
+ * trace_probe_event, which lives as long as the field list itself.
+ *
+ * event_define_fields() ignores the return value of this hook, so
+ * if a previous attempt failed before creating any field, it may
+ * call here again. Release duplicates left behind by such an
+ * attempt before starting over.
+ */
+ for (i = 0; i < tpe->nr_field_strings; i++)
+ kfree(tpe->field_strings[i]);
+ kfree(tpe->field_strings);
+ tpe->field_strings = NULL;
+ tpe->nr_field_strings = 0;
+
+ if (tp->nr_args) {
+ tpe->field_strings = kcalloc(tp->nr_args * 2, sizeof(char *),
+ GFP_KERNEL);
+ if (!tpe->field_strings)
+ return -ENOMEM;
+ }
+
/* Set argument names as fields */
for (i = 0; i < tp->nr_args; i++) {
struct probe_arg *parg = &tp->args[i];
const char *fmt = parg->type->fmttype;
int size = parg->type->size;
+ char *name, *type;

if (parg->fmt)
fmt = parg->fmt;
if (parg->count)
size *= parg->count;
- ret = trace_define_field(event_call, fmt, parg->name,
+
+ name = kstrdup(parg->name, GFP_KERNEL);
+ type = kstrdup(fmt, GFP_KERNEL);
+ if (!name || !type) {
+ kfree(name);
+ kfree(type);
+ return -ENOMEM;
+ }
+ tpe->field_strings[tpe->nr_field_strings++] = name;
+ tpe->field_strings[tpe->nr_field_strings++] = type;
+
+ ret = trace_define_field(event_call, type, name,
offset + parg->offset, size,
parg->type->is_signed,
FILTER_OTHER);
@@ -2576,6 +2618,11 @@ int traceprobe_define_arg_fields(struct trace_event_call *event_call,

static void trace_probe_event_free(struct trace_probe_event *tpe)
{
+ int i;
+
+ for (i = 0; i < tpe->nr_field_strings; i++)
+ kfree(tpe->field_strings[i]);
+ kfree(tpe->field_strings);
kfree(tpe->class.system);
kfree(tpe->call.name);
kfree(tpe->call.print_fmt);
diff --git a/kernel/trace/trace_probe.h b/kernel/trace/trace_probe.h
index fba1af092a9b..d1fb3520700f 100644
--- a/kernel/trace/trace_probe.h
+++ b/kernel/trace/trace_probe.h
@@ -264,6 +264,8 @@ struct trace_probe_event {
struct trace_event_call call;
struct list_head files;
struct list_head probes;
+ char **field_strings;
+ int nr_field_strings;
struct trace_uprobe_filter filter[];
};

diff --git a/kernel/trace/trace_uprobe.c b/kernel/trace/trace_uprobe.c
index 861d857adadb..22cc3c8181b8 100644
--- a/kernel/trace/trace_uprobe.c
+++ b/kernel/trace/trace_uprobe.c
@@ -368,7 +368,7 @@ alloc_trace_uprobe(const char *group, const char *event, int nargs, bool is_ret)

static void free_trace_uprobe(struct trace_uprobe *tu)
{
- if (!tu)
+ if (IS_ERR_OR_NULL(tu))
return;

path_put(&tu->path);
@@ -533,7 +533,7 @@ static int register_trace_uprobe(struct trace_uprobe *tu)
return ret;
}

-DEFINE_FREE(free_trace_uprobe, struct trace_uprobe *, if (_T) free_trace_uprobe(_T))
+DEFINE_FREE(free_trace_uprobe, struct trace_uprobe *, free_trace_uprobe(_T))

/*
* Argument syntax:
--
Masami Hiramatsu (Google) <mhiramat@xxxxxxxxxx>