linux-kernel - [PATCH 18/21] kgr: fix race of stub and patching

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Date:	Mon, 23 Jun 2014 15:29:32 +0200
From:	Jiri Slaby <jslaby@...e.cz>
To:	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Cc:	jirislaby@...il.com, Vojtech Pavlik <vojtech@...e.cz>,
	Jiri Kosina <jkosina@...e.cz>, Jiri Slaby <jslaby@...e.cz>
Subject: [PATCH 18/21] kgr: fix race of stub and patching

While we are patching, we set up a stub which refers to
kgr_in_progress of a process. The stub can be called immediately when
set up, but we set the flag even after done with patching in
kgr_handle_processes. This is obviously too late, so set the flag
before we start patching, but after we check that no other patching is
in progress -- we would interfere otherwise.

Signed-off-by: Jiri Slaby <jslaby@...e.cz>
Reported-by: Aravinda Prasad <aravinda@...ux.vnet.ibm.com>
---
 kernel/kgraft.c | 14 ++++++++++++--
 1 file changed, 12 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/kernel/kgraft.c b/kernel/kgraft.c
index 6816da29a6a3..89414957cf74 100644
--- a/kernel/kgraft.c
+++ b/kernel/kgraft.c
@@ -124,14 +124,22 @@ static void kgr_work_fn(struct work_struct *work)
 	mutex_unlock(&kgr_in_progress_lock);
 }
 
-static void kgr_handle_processes(void)
+static void kgr_mark_processes(void)
 {
 	struct task_struct *p;
 
 	read_lock(&tasklist_lock);
-	for_each_process(p) {
+	for_each_process(p)
 		kgr_mark_task_in_progress(p);
+	read_unlock(&tasklist_lock);
+}
 
+static void kgr_handle_processes(void)
+{
+	struct task_struct *p;
+
+	read_lock(&tasklist_lock);
+	for_each_process(p) {
 		/* wake up kthreads, they will clean the progress flag */
 		if (!p->mm) {
 			/*
@@ -333,6 +341,8 @@ int kgr_start_patching(struct kgr_patch *patch)
 		goto unlock_free;
 	}
 
+	kgr_mark_processes();
+
 	for (patch_fun = patch->patches; *patch_fun; patch_fun++) {
 		ret = kgr_patch_code(patch, *patch_fun, false);
 		/*
-- 
2.0.0

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