rcu: Avoid stack overflow due to __rcu_irq_enter_check_tick() being kprobe-ed

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    "title": "rcu: Avoid stack overflow due to __rcu_irq_enter_check_tick() being kprobe-ed",
    "summary": "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: rcu: Avoid stack overflow due to __rcu_irq_enter_check_tick() being kprobe-ed Registering a kprobe on __rcu_irq_enter_check_tick() can cause kernel stack overflow as shown below. This issue can be reproduced by enabling CONFIG_NO_HZ_FULL and booting the kernel with argument \"nohz_full=\", and then giving the following commands at the shell prompt: # cd /sys/kernel/tracing/ # echo 'p:mp1 __rcu_irq_enter_check_tick' >> kprobe_events # echo 1 > events/kprobes/enable This commit therefore adds __rcu_irq_enter_check_tick() to the kprobes blacklist using NOKPROBE_SYMBOL(). Insufficient stack space to handle exception! ESR: 0x00000000f2000004 -- BRK (AArch64) FAR: 0x0000ffffccf3e510 Task stack: [0xffff80000ad30000..0xffff80000ad38000] IRQ stack: [0xffff800008050000..0xffff800008058000] Overflow stack: [0xffff089c36f9f310..0xffff089c36fa0310] CPU: 5 PID: 190 Comm: bash Not tainted 6.2.0-rc2-00320-g1f5abbd77e2c #19 Hardware name: linux,dummy-virt (DT) pstate: 400003c5 (nZcv DAIF -PAN -UAO -TCO -DIT -SSBS BTYPE=--) pc : __rcu_irq_enter_check_tick+0x0/0x1b8 lr : ct_nmi_enter+0x11c/0x138 sp : ffff80000ad30080 x29: ffff80000ad30080 x28: ffff089c82e20000 x27: 0000000000000000 x26: 0000000000000000 x25: ffff089c02a8d100 x24: 0000000000000000 x23: 00000000400003c5 x22: 0000ffffccf3e510 x21: ffff089c36fae148 x20: ffff80000ad30120 x19: ffffa8da8fcce148 x18: 0000000000000000 x17: 0000000000000000 x16: 0000000000000000 x15: ffffa",
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  "published_at": "2025-10-07T15:21:16.889+00:00"
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