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From: Masami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@kernel.org>
To: stable@vger.kernel.org
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>,
	Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com>, Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de>,
	x86@kernel.org, "H . Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
	"Naveen N . Rao" <naveen.n.rao@linux.ibm.com>,
	Anil S Keshavamurthy <anil.s.keshavamurthy@intel.com>,
	"David S . Miller" <davem@davemloft.net>,
	Masami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@kernel.org>,
	Solar Designer <solar@openwall.com>,
	Eddy_Wu@trendmicro.com, Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Subject: [PATCH 1/2] kprobes: Remove NMI context check
Date: Fri, 11 Dec 2020 00:30:58 +0900	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <160761425763.3585575.15837172081484340228.stgit@devnote2> (raw)

commit e03b4a084ea6b0a18b0e874baec439e69090c168 upstream.

The in_nmi() check in pre_handler_kretprobe() is meant to avoid
recursion, and blindly assumes that anything NMI is recursive.

However, since commit:

  9b38cc704e84 ("kretprobe: Prevent triggering kretprobe from within kprobe_flush_task")

there is a better way to detect and avoid actual recursion.

By setting a dummy kprobe, any actual exceptions will terminate early
(by trying to handle the dummy kprobe), and recursion will not happen.

Employ this to avoid the kretprobe_table_lock() recursion, replacing
the over-eager in_nmi() check.

Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org # 5.9.x
Signed-off-by: Masami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/159870615628.1229682.6087311596892125907.stgit@devnote2
---
 kernel/kprobes.c |   16 ++++------------
 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 12 deletions(-)

diff --git a/kernel/kprobes.c b/kernel/kprobes.c
index e995541d277d..b885d884603d 100644
--- a/kernel/kprobes.c
+++ b/kernel/kprobes.c
@@ -1359,7 +1359,8 @@ static void cleanup_rp_inst(struct kretprobe *rp)
 	struct hlist_node *next;
 	struct hlist_head *head;
 
-	/* No race here */
+	/* To avoid recursive kretprobe by NMI, set kprobe busy here */
+	kprobe_busy_begin();
 	for (hash = 0; hash < KPROBE_TABLE_SIZE; hash++) {
 		kretprobe_table_lock(hash, &flags);
 		head = &kretprobe_inst_table[hash];
@@ -1369,6 +1370,8 @@ static void cleanup_rp_inst(struct kretprobe *rp)
 		}
 		kretprobe_table_unlock(hash, &flags);
 	}
+	kprobe_busy_end();
+
 	free_rp_inst(rp);
 }
 NOKPROBE_SYMBOL(cleanup_rp_inst);
@@ -1937,17 +1940,6 @@ static int pre_handler_kretprobe(struct kprobe *p, struct pt_regs *regs)
 	unsigned long hash, flags = 0;
 	struct kretprobe_instance *ri;
 
-	/*
-	 * To avoid deadlocks, prohibit return probing in NMI contexts,
-	 * just skip the probe and increase the (inexact) 'nmissed'
-	 * statistical counter, so that the user is informed that
-	 * something happened:
-	 */
-	if (unlikely(in_nmi())) {
-		rp->nmissed++;
-		return 0;
-	}
-
 	/* TODO: consider to only swap the RA after the last pre_handler fired */
 	hash = hash_ptr(current, KPROBE_HASH_BITS);
 	raw_spin_lock_irqsave(&rp->lock, flags);


             reply	other threads:[~2020-12-10 15:32 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2020-12-10 15:30 Masami Hiramatsu [this message]
2020-12-10 15:31 ` [PATCH 2/2] kprobes: Tell lockdep about kprobe nesting Masami Hiramatsu
2020-12-11 14:47 ` [PATCH 1/2] kprobes: Remove NMI context check Greg KH

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