x86/kprobe: Add comments to arch_{,un}optimize_kprobes()

Add a few words describing how it is safe to overwrite the 4 bytes
after a kprobe. In specific it is possible the JMP.d32 required for
the optimized kprobe overwrites multiple instructions.

Tested-by: Alexei Starovoitov <ast@kernel.org>
Tested-by: Steven Rostedt (VMware) <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org>
Acked-by: Alexei Starovoitov <ast@kernel.org>
Cc: Andy Lutomirski <luto@kernel.org>
Cc: Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de>
Cc: Brian Gerst <brgerst@gmail.com>
Cc: Denys Vlasenko <dvlasenk@redhat.com>
Cc: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20191111132458.401696663@infradead.org
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>

1 files changed, 12 insertions, 2 deletions

diff --git a/arch/x86/kernel/kprobes/opt.c b/arch/x86/kernel/kprobes/opt.c
index 26e0d6c4d8d6..3f45b5c43a71 100644
--- a/arch/x86/kernel/kprobes/opt.c
+++ b/arch/x86/kernel/kprobes/opt.c
@@ -414,8 +414,12 @@ err:
 }
 
 /*
- * Replace breakpoints (int3) with relative jumps.
+ * Replace breakpoints (INT3) with relative jumps (JMP.d32).
  * Caller must call with locking kprobe_mutex and text_mutex.
+ *
+ * The caller will have installed a regular kprobe and after that issued
+ * syncrhonize_rcu_tasks(), this ensures that the instruction(s) that live in
+ * the 4 bytes after the INT3 are unused and can now be overwritten.
  */
 void arch_optimize_kprobes(struct list_head *oplist)
 {
@@ -441,7 +445,13 @@ void arch_optimize_kprobes(struct list_head *oplist)
 	}
 }
 
-/* Replace a relative jump with a breakpoint (int3).  */
+/*
+ * Replace a relative jump (JMP.d32) with a breakpoint (INT3).
+ *
+ * After that, we can restore the 4 bytes after the INT3 to undo what
+ * arch_optimize_kprobes() scribbled. This is safe since those bytes will be
+ * unused once the INT3 lands.
+ */
 void arch_unoptimize_kprobe(struct optimized_kprobe *op)
 {
 	arch_arm_kprobe(&op->kp);