linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v8 3/6] Uprobes: Support SDT markers having reference count (semaphore)

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Date:   Tue, 14 Aug 2018 10:07:29 +0530
From:   Ravi Bangoria <ravi.bangoria@...ux.ibm.com>
To:     Song Liu <liu.song.a23@...il.com>
Cc:     Oleg Nesterov <oleg@...hat.com>,
        Srikar Dronamraju <srikar@...ux.vnet.ibm.com>,
        Steven Rostedt <rostedt@...dmis.org>, mhiramat@...nel.org,
        Peter Zijlstra <peterz@...radead.org>, mingo@...hat.com,
        acme@...nel.org, alexander.shishkin@...ux.intel.com,
        jolsa@...hat.com, namhyung@...nel.org,
        open list <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
        ananth@...ux.vnet.ibm.com,
        Alexis Berlemont <alexis.berlemont@...il.com>,
        naveen.n.rao@...ux.vnet.ibm.com,
        linux-arm-kernel@...ts.infradead.org, linux-mips@...ux-mips.org,
        linux@...linux.org.uk, ralf@...ux-mips.org, paul.burton@...s.com,
        Ravi Bangoria <ravi.bangoria@...ux.ibm.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v8 3/6] Uprobes: Support SDT markers having reference
 count (semaphore)

Hi Song,

On 08/13/2018 10:42 PM, Song Liu wrote:
> On Mon, Aug 13, 2018 at 6:17 AM, Oleg Nesterov <oleg@...hat.com> wrote:
>> On 08/13, Ravi Bangoria wrote:
>>>
>>>> But damn, process creation (exec) is trivial. We could add a new uprobe_exec()
>>>> hook and avoid delayed_uprobe_install() in uprobe_mmap().
>>>
>>> I'm sorry. I didn't get this.
>>
>> Sorry for confusion...
>>
>> I meant, if only exec*( could race with _register(), we could add another uprobe
>> hook which updates all (delayed) counters before return to user-mode.
>>
>>>> Afaics, the really problematic case is dlopen() which can race with _register()
>>>> too, right?
>>>
>>> dlopen() should internally use mmap() right? So what is the problem here? Can
>>> you please elaborate.
>>
>> What I tried to say is that we can't avoid uprobe_mmap()->delayed_uprobe_install()
>> because dlopen() can race with _register() too, just like exec.
>>
>> Oleg.
>>
> 
> How about we do delayed_uprobe_install() per file? Say we keep a list
> of delayed_uprobe
> in load_elf_binary(). Then we can install delayed_uprobe after loading
> all sections of the
> file.

I'm not sure if I totally understood the idea. But how this approach can
solve dlopen() race with _register()?

Rather, making delayed_uprobe_list an mm field seems simple and effective
idea to me. The only overhead will be list_empty(mm->delayed_list) check.

Please let me know if I misunderstood you.

Thanks,
Ravi