[PATCH] tracing: Fix the bug where bpf_get_stackid returns -EFAULT on the ARM64

Feng Yang yangfeng59949 at 163.com
Wed Sep 24 19:08:22 PDT 2025


From: Feng Yang <yangfeng at kylinos.cn>

When using bpf_program__attach_kprobe_multi_opts on ARM64 to hook a BPF program
that contains the bpf_get_stackid function, the BPF program fails
to obtain the stack trace and returns -EFAULT.

This is because ftrace_partial_regs omits the configuration of the pstate register,
leaving pstate at the default value of 0. When get_perf_callchain executes,
it uses user_mode(regs) to determine whether it is in kernel mode.
This leads to a misjudgment that the code is in user mode,
so perf_callchain_kernel is not executed and the function returns directly.
As a result, trace->nr becomes 0, and finally -EFAULT is returned.

Therefore, the assignment of the pstate register is added here.

Fixes: b9b55c8912ce ("tracing: Add ftrace_partial_regs() for converting ftrace_regs to pt_regs")
Closes: https://lore.kernel.org/bpf/20250919071902.554223-1-yangfeng59949@163.com/
Signed-off-by: Feng Yang <yangfeng at kylinos.cn>
---
 arch/arm64/include/asm/ftrace.h | 1 +
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)

diff --git a/arch/arm64/include/asm/ftrace.h b/arch/arm64/include/asm/ftrace.h
index bfe3ce9df197..ba7cf7fec5e9 100644
--- a/arch/arm64/include/asm/ftrace.h
+++ b/arch/arm64/include/asm/ftrace.h
@@ -153,6 +153,7 @@ ftrace_partial_regs(const struct ftrace_regs *fregs, struct pt_regs *regs)
 	regs->pc = afregs->pc;
 	regs->regs[29] = afregs->fp;
 	regs->regs[30] = afregs->lr;
+	regs->pstate = PSR_MODE_EL1h;
 	return regs;
 }
 
-- 
2.25.1




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