APPLIED: [SRU][Disco][PATCH 0/1] fix for kprobes regression (LP: #1840750)

[Khaled Elmously]

Thanks

On 2019-08-20 16:42:26 , Kleber Souza wrote:
> BugLink: https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1840750
> 
> [Impact]
> ftrace test in ubuntu_kernel_selftests causes a system crash + reboot when
> testing "Register/unregister many kprobe events".
> 
> [Fix]
> The issue has been discussed in the following LKML thread:
> https://lkml.org/lkml/2019/6/5/274
> 
> and the following 3 upstream commits have been identified to resolve this
> issue:
> 
> d2a68c4effd8 x86/ftrace: Do not call function graph from dynamic trampolines
> 3c0dab44e227 x86/ftrace: Set trampoline pages as executable
> 7298e24f9042 x86/kprobes: Set instruction page as executable
> 
> From these commits, the Disco kernel currently in -proposed (5.0.0-26.27) is
> missing only the following commit, which has been already committed as part of
> LP: #1839887 (Disco update: upstream stable patchset 2019-08-12) but not yet
> released:
> 
> 7298e24f9042 x86/kprobes: Set instruction page as executable
> 
> [Regression potential]
> The commit touches the x86/kprobes code so there's a chance of regression there
> which I would flag as medium. However, it has been applied upstream for
> v5.2-rc1 and there is no follow-up commits marked as fix for it.
> 
> Nadav Amit (1):
>   x86/kprobes: Set instruction page as executable
> 
>  arch/x86/kernel/kprobes/core.c | 24 ++++++++++++++++++++----
>  1 file changed, 20 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)
> 
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