From: Frederic Weisbecker <frederic@kernel.org>
To: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: LKML <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
x86@kernel.org, Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>,
Brian Gerst <brgerst@gmail.com>, Juergen Gross <jgross@suse.com>,
Alexandre Chartre <alexandre.chartre@oracle.com>
Subject: Re: [patch part-II V2 01/13] context_tracking: Ensure that the critical path cannot be instrumented
Date: Mon, 9 Mar 2020 15:22:24 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20200309142223.GD9615@lenoir> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20200308222609.017810037@linutronix.de>
On Sun, Mar 08, 2020 at 11:24:00PM +0100, Thomas Gleixner wrote:
> context tracking lacks a few protection mechanisms against instrumentation:
>
> - While the core functions are marked NOKPROBE they lack protection
> against function tracing which is required as the function entry/exit
> points can be utilized by BPF.
Just to clarify things up: IIUC, BPF scripts can be called from the
function graph tracer hooks, and that BPF code uses RCU, right?
>
> - static functions invoked from the protected functions need to be marked
> as well as they can be instrumented otherwise.
>
> - using plain inline allows the compiler to emit traceable and probable
> functions.
>
> Fix this by adding the missing notrace/NOKPROBE annotations and converting
> the plain inlines to __always_inline.
>
> Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Acked-by: Frederic Weisbecker <frederic@kernel.org>
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2020-03-09 14:22 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 41+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2020-03-08 22:23 [patch part-II V2 00/13] x86/entry: Consolidation - Part II (syscalls) Thomas Gleixner
2020-03-08 22:24 ` [patch part-II V2 01/13] context_tracking: Ensure that the critical path cannot be instrumented Thomas Gleixner
2020-03-09 14:22 ` Frederic Weisbecker [this message]
2020-03-09 14:40 ` Thomas Gleixner
2020-03-10 10:12 ` Alexandre Chartre
2020-03-08 22:24 ` [patch part-II V2 02/13] x86/entry: Mark enter_from_user_mode() notrace and NOKPROBE Thomas Gleixner
2020-03-09 15:14 ` Frederic Weisbecker
2020-03-09 15:40 ` Thomas Gleixner
2020-03-11 22:21 ` Frederic Weisbecker
2020-03-10 10:15 ` Alexandre Chartre
2020-03-08 22:24 ` [patch part-II V2 03/13] x86/entry/32: Remove unused label restore_nocheck Thomas Gleixner
2020-03-10 10:16 ` Alexandre Chartre
2020-03-10 13:02 ` [tip: x86/entry] " tip-bot2 for Thomas Gleixner
2020-03-08 22:24 ` [patch part-II V2 04/13] x86/entry/64: Trace irqflags unconditionally as ON when returning to user space Thomas Gleixner
2020-03-10 10:25 ` Alexandre Chartre
2020-03-10 13:02 ` [tip: x86/entry] " tip-bot2 for Thomas Gleixner
2020-03-08 22:24 ` [patch part-II V2 05/13] x86/entry/common: Consolidate syscall entry code Thomas Gleixner
2020-03-08 22:24 ` [patch part-II V2 06/13] x86/entry/common: Mark syscall entry points notrace and NOKPROBE Thomas Gleixner
2020-03-13 15:12 ` Frederic Weisbecker
2020-03-08 22:24 ` [patch part-II V2 07/13] x86/entry: Move irq tracing on syscall entry to C-code Thomas Gleixner
2020-03-13 15:16 ` Frederic Weisbecker
2020-03-13 23:17 ` Thomas Gleixner
2020-03-08 22:24 ` [patch part-II V2 08/13] tracing: Provide lockdep less trace_hardirqs_on/off() variants Thomas Gleixner
2020-03-10 10:55 ` Alexandre Chartre
2020-03-10 11:08 ` Borislav Petkov
2020-03-10 11:21 ` Alexandre Chartre
2020-03-08 22:24 ` [patch part-II V2 09/13] x86/entry/common: Split hardirq tracing into lockdep and ftrace parts Thomas Gleixner
2020-03-10 11:20 ` Borislav Petkov
2020-03-10 13:40 ` Steven Rostedt
2020-03-10 13:28 ` Alexandre Chartre
2020-03-23 9:08 ` [x86/entry/common] bae397f6e7: WARNING:at_kernel/sched/cputime.c:#get_vtime_delta kernel test robot
2020-03-23 9:08 ` kernel test robot
2020-03-08 22:24 ` [patch part-II V2 10/13] x86/entry/common: Split prepare_exit_to_usermode() and syscall_return_slowpath() Thomas Gleixner
2020-03-10 13:37 ` Alexandre Chartre
2020-03-08 22:24 ` [patch part-II V2 11/13] x86/speculation/mds: Mark mds_user_clear_cpu_buffers() __always_inline Thomas Gleixner
2020-03-10 13:48 ` Alexandre Chartre
2020-03-10 16:38 ` Thomas Gleixner
2020-03-08 22:24 ` [patch part-II V2 12/13] x86/entry: Move irq flags tracing to prepare_exit_to_usermode() Thomas Gleixner
2020-03-10 14:03 ` Alexandre Chartre
2020-03-08 22:24 ` [patch part-II V2 13/13] x86/entry/common: Split irq tracing in prepare_exit_to_usermode() Thomas Gleixner
2020-03-10 14:09 ` Alexandre Chartre
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