bpf,x86: Fix exception unwinding with outgoing stack arguments

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When a main program with exception_boundary has outgoing stack
arguments (e.g. from calling subprogs with >5 args), bpf_throw() fails
to correctly restore callee-saved registers, causing a kernel crash.

The x86 JIT allocates the outgoing stack arg area below the
callee-saved registers via 'sub rsp, outgoing_rsp' in the prologue.
When bpf_throw() unwinds, it captures the main program's sp (which
includes this outgoing area) and passes it to the exception callback.
The callback gets rsp and rbp, followed by pop_callee_regs, but rsp
points into the outgoing arg area rather than the callee-saved
registers, so the pops restore garbage values. Returning to the
kernel with corrupted callee-saved registers causes a crash.

Fix this by adjusting the sp (adding stack_arg_sp_adjust) passed to
the exception callback, so it points to the bottom of the callee-saved
registers instead of the outgoing arg area. When stack_arg_sp_adjust
is 0 (the common case), this is a no-op.

Fixes: 324c3ca6ee ("bpf,x86: Implement JIT support for stack arguments")
Acked-by: Kumar Kartikeya Dwivedi <memxor@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Yonghong Song <yonghong.song@linux.dev>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20260517150702.288031-1-yonghong.song@linux.dev
Signed-off-by: Alexei Starovoitov <ast@kernel.org>

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Yonghong Song 2026-05-17 08:07:02 -07:00 • committed by Alexei Starovoitov

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arch/x86/net/bpf_jit_comp.c

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include/linux/bpf.h

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kernel/bpf/fixups.c

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kernel/bpf/helpers.c

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