linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] Uprobes: Fix kernel oops with delayed_uprobe

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Date:   Thu, 15 Nov 2018 13:43:18 +0100
From:   Oleg Nesterov <oleg@...hat.com>
To:     Ravi Bangoria <ravi.bangoria@...ux.ibm.com>
Cc:     srikar@...ux.vnet.ibm.com, rostedt@...dmis.org,
        mhiramat@...nel.org, liu.song.a23@...il.com, peterz@...radead.org,
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        namhyung@...nel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
        ananth@...ux.vnet.ibm.com, alexis.berlemont@...il.com,
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Subject: Re: [PATCH] Uprobes: Fix kernel oops with delayed_uprobe_remove()

On 11/15, Ravi Bangoria wrote:
>
> There could be a race between task exit and probe unregister:
>
>   exit_mm()
>   mmput()
>   __mmput()                     uprobe_unregister()
>   uprobe_clear_state()          put_uprobe()
>   delayed_uprobe_remove()       delayed_uprobe_remove()
>
> put_uprobe() is calling delayed_uprobe_remove() without taking
> delayed_uprobe_lock and thus the race sometimes results in a
> kernel crash. Fix this by taking delayed_uprobe_lock before
> calling delayed_uprobe_remove() from put_uprobe().
>
> Detailed crash log can be found at:
>   https://lkml.org/lkml/2018/11/1/1244

Thanks, looks good,

Oleg.