Re: kprobing "hash_64.constprop.26" crashes the system, recursion through get_kprobe?

Timo Juhani Lindfors
2013-03-01T08:44:32Z

Masami Hiramatsu <masami.hiramatsu.pt@hitachi.com> writes:
>> I am unable to recreate this problem on a fedora system; hash_64 is
>> inlined AFAICS.

Thanks testing. How does the disassembly of get_kprobes look for you?

> I also tried and couldn't recreate hash_64 problem on my ubuntu 12.10.
> Could you tell us your kconfig?

Sure, see

http://lindi.iki.fi/lindi/config-3.7-trunk-amd64_3.7.3-1~experimental.1

Note that I am doing the tests under xen. Should I redo the tests under
kvm?

>> This is a clear case of recursion. Either of the two options should fix
>> the problem.
>
> I think __kprobes is better if it works, because it causes kprobes
> issue (no problem in other parts).
> (Again, since I can't reproduce this hash_64.constprop,
> I'm not sure that __kprobes can fix that clearly.)

Ok. My worry is that hash_64 is not the only function that is called
from a __kprobes marked function. For example kprobes_module_callback
calls mutex_lock. Should we also mark mutex_lock with __kprobes?

Based on the disassembly of code between __kprobes_text_start and
__kprobes_text_end I made a function call graph that shows functions
that get called from this region:

http://lindi.iki.fi/lindi/kprobes/function-call-graph1.png

The __kprobes functions are marked with red color. I had to omit
mutex_lock, mutex_unlock and printk from the graph to make it readable
(I also omited functions that don't call other functions). As you can
see, this is quite a minefield :)