Re: [PATCH] tracing/kprobe: Recover old array if fails to enable kprobe

[Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>]

On 06/28, Masami Hiramatsu wrote:
>
> @@ -232,19 +246,21 @@ enable_trace_probe(struct trace_probe *tp, struct ftrace_event_file *file)
>  		rcu_assign_pointer(tp->files, new);
>  		tp->flags |= TP_FLAG_TRACE;
>  
> +		ret = __enable_trace_probe(tp);
> +		if (ret < 0) {
> +			/* Write back the old list */
> +			rcu_assign_pointer(tp->files, old);
> +			old = new;	/* "new" must be freed */
> +		}
> +
>  		if (old) {
>  			/* Make sure the probe is done with old files */
>  			synchronize_sched();
>  			kfree(old);
>  		}

Ah, but this conflicts with the other changes I sent. They have
your acks, and iiuc Steven is going to apply them.

Besides, this fix is not complete afaics, we should also clear
TP_FLAG_TRACE/PROFILE if __enable_trace_probe() fails.

Perhaps you can do this later, on top of the pending changes?

Or. Given that this patch assumes that enable_kprobe() must succed,
can't we make a minimal change for now?

-------------------------------------------------------------------------------
[PATCH] tracing/kprobe: WARN() if enable_kprobe() fails.

enable_trace_probe() doesn't recover tp->files/flags if enable_kprobe()
fails, this looks confusing.

However, enable_kprobe() must not fail at this time except for unknown
bug or changing the implementation of enable_kprobe(), because usual
failure cases (not registered or gone) are already filtered.

So this patch simply adds WARN_ON(ret) to document this fact, even if
it makes sense to cleanup the logic anyway later.

Reported-by: Srikar Dronamraju <srikar@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>
---
 kernel/trace/trace_kprobe.c |    1 +
 1 files changed, 1 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-)

diff --git a/kernel/trace/trace_kprobe.c b/kernel/trace/trace_kprobe.c
index 5c070db..bb608b5 100644
--- a/kernel/trace/trace_kprobe.c
+++ b/kernel/trace/trace_kprobe.c
@@ -220,6 +220,7 @@ enable_trace_probe(struct trace_probe *tp, struct ftrace_event_file *file)
 			ret = enable_kretprobe(&tp->rp);
 		else
 			ret = enable_kprobe(&tp->rp.kp);
+		WARN_ON(ret);
 	}
  out:
 	return ret;