[RFC,0/2] x86/kprobes: add exception opcode detector and boost more opcodes

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Jinghao Jia Jan. 27, 2024, 4:41 a.m. UTC

Hi everyone,

This patch set makes the following 2 changes:

- It adds an exception opcode detector to prevent kprobing on INTs and UDs.
  These opcodes serves special purposes in the kernel and kprobing them
  will also cause the stack trace to be polluted by the copy buffer
  address. This is suggested by Masami.

- At the same time, this patch set also boosts more opcodes from the group
  2/3/4/5. The newly boosted opcodes are all arithmetic instructions with
  semantics that are easy to reason about, and therefore, they are able to
  be boosted and executed out-of-line. These instructions were not boosted
  previously because they use opcode extensions that are not handled by the
  kernel. But now with the instruction decoder they can be easily handled.
  Boosting (and further jump optimizing) these instructions leads to a 10x
  performance gain for a single probe on QEMU.

Jinghao Jia (2):
  x86/kprobes: Prohibit kprobing on INT and UD
  x86/kprobes: boost more instructions from grp2/3/4/5

 arch/x86/kernel/kprobes/core.c | 54 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++--------
 1 file changed, 41 insertions(+), 13 deletions(-)

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