From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1751704AbdEQBrT (ORCPT ); Tue, 16 May 2017 21:47:19 -0400 Received: from mail.kernel.org ([198.145.29.99]:36306 "EHLO mail.kernel.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1750784AbdEQBrP (ORCPT ); Tue, 16 May 2017 21:47:15 -0400 DMARC-Filter: OpenDMARC Filter v1.3.2 mail.kernel.org 4F8B5239D0 Authentication-Results: mail.kernel.org; dmarc=none (p=none dis=none) header.from=kernel.org Authentication-Results: mail.kernel.org; spf=none smtp.mailfrom=mhiramat@kernel.org Date: Wed, 17 May 2017 10:47:07 +0900 From: Masami Hiramatsu To: Steven Rostedt Cc: LKML , Thomas Gleixner , Ingo Molnar Subject: Re: [PATCH] kprobes: Document how optimized kprobes are removed from module unload Message-Id: <20170517104707.f2fe0e8baa0adb3c8ece74db@kernel.org> In-Reply-To: <20170516145835.3827d3aa@gandalf.local.home> References: <20170516145835.3827d3aa@gandalf.local.home> X-Mailer: Sylpheed 3.5.0 (GTK+ 2.24.31; x86_64-redhat-linux-gnu) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Tue, 16 May 2017 14:58:35 -0400 Steven Rostedt wrote: > From: Steven Rostedt (VMware) > > Thomas discovered a bug where the kprobe trace tests had a race > condition where the kprobe_optimizer called from a delayed work queue > that does the optimizing and "unoptimizing" of a kprobe, can try to > modify the text after it has been freed by the init code. > > The kprobe trace selftest is a special case, and Thomas and myself > investigated to see if there's a chance that this could also be a bug > with module unloading, as the code is not obvious to how it handles > this. After adding lots of printks, I figured it out. Thomas suggested > that this should be commented so that others will not have to go > through this exercise again. > OK, and I prefer this comment to move into kill_kprobe() right before calling kill_optimized_kprobe() because that actually does it. Thank you, > Suggested-by: Thomas Gleixner > Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (VMware) > --- > diff --git a/kernel/kprobes.c b/kernel/kprobes.c > index 7367e0e..ac386f6 100644 > --- a/kernel/kprobes.c > +++ b/kernel/kprobes.c > @@ -2183,6 +2183,12 @@ static int kprobes_module_callback(struct notifier_block *nb, > * The vaddr this probe is installed will soon > * be vfreed buy not synced to disk. Hence, > * disarming the breakpoint isn't needed. > + * > + * Note, this will also move any optimized probes > + * that are pending to be removed from their > + * corresponding lists to the freeing_list and > + * will not be touched by the delayed > + * kprobe_optimizer work handler. > */ > kill_kprobe(p); > } -- Masami Hiramatsu