[PATCH] kprobes: fix race in aggregate kprobe registration

Keshavamurthy Anil S
2005-12-07T17:26:11Z

When registering multiple kprobes at the same address, we leave a small
window where the kprobe hlist will not contain a reference to the
registered kprobe, leading to potentially, a system crash if the
breakpoint is hit on another processor.

Patch below now automically relpace the old kprobe with the new
kprobe from the hash list.

Signed-off-by: Anil S Keshavamurthy <anil.s.keshavamurthy@intel.com>
Acked-by: Ananth N Mavinakayanahalli <ananth@in.ibm.com>

kernel/kprobes.c | 5 +----
1 files changed, 1 insertion(+), 4 deletions(-)

Index: linux-2.6.15-rc5-mm1/kernel/kprobes.c
===================================================================
--- linux-2.6.15-rc5-mm1.orig/kernel/kprobes.c
+++ linux-2.6.15-rc5-mm1/kernel/kprobes.c
@@ -399,10 +399,7 @@ static inline void add_aggr_kprobe(struc
INIT_LIST_HEAD(&ap->list);
list_add_rcu(&p->list, &ap->list);

- INIT_HLIST_NODE(&ap->hlist);
- hlist_del_rcu(&p->hlist);
- hlist_add_head_rcu(&ap->hlist,
- &kprobe_table[hash_ptr(ap->addr, KPROBE_HASH_BITS)]);
+ hlist_replace_rcu(&p->hlist, &ap->hlist);
}

/*