The following commit has been merged into the x86/urgent branch of tip: Commit-ID: ae052e3ae09572194d7e574906db7272041577d3 Gitweb: https://git.kernel.org/tip/ae052e3ae09572194d7e574906db7272041577d3 Author: Nadav Amit <namit@xxxxxxxxxx> AuthorDate: Wed, 08 Feb 2023 07:17:08 Committer: Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> CommitterDate: Wed, 08 Feb 2023 12:03:27 -08:00 x86/kprobes: Fix 1 byte conditional jump target Commit 3bc753c06dd0 ("kbuild: treat char as always unsigned") broke kprobes. Setting a probe-point on 1 byte conditional jump can cause the kernel to crash when the (signed) relative jump offset gets treated as unsigned. Fix by replacing the unsigned 'immediate.bytes' (plus a cast) with the signed 'immediate.value' when assigning to the relative jump offset. [ dhansen: clarified changelog ] Fixes: 3bc753c06dd0 ("kbuild: treat char as always unsigned") Suggested-by: Masami Hiramatsu (Google) <mhiramat@xxxxxxxxxx> Suggested-by: Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@xxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Nadav Amit <namit@xxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/all/20230208071708.4048-1-namit%40vmware.com --- arch/x86/kernel/kprobes/core.c | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/arch/x86/kernel/kprobes/core.c b/arch/x86/kernel/kprobes/core.c index b36f3c3..695873c 100644 --- a/arch/x86/kernel/kprobes/core.c +++ b/arch/x86/kernel/kprobes/core.c @@ -625,7 +625,7 @@ static int prepare_emulation(struct kprobe *p, struct insn *insn) /* 1 byte conditional jump */ p->ainsn.emulate_op = kprobe_emulate_jcc; p->ainsn.jcc.type = opcode & 0xf; - p->ainsn.rel32 = *(char *)insn->immediate.bytes; + p->ainsn.rel32 = insn->immediate.value; break; case 0x0f: opcode = insn->opcode.bytes[1];