linux-kernel - [PATCH 3.16 126/328] uprobes: Use synchronize_rcu() not synchronize

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Message-ID: <lsq.1544392233.639849846@decadent.org.uk>
Date:   Sun, 09 Dec 2018 21:50:33 +0000
From:   Ben Hutchings <ben@...adent.org.uk>
To:     linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, stable@...r.kernel.org
CC:     akpm@...ux-foundation.org, "Oleg Nesterov" <oleg@...hat.com>,
        "Steven Rostedt (VMware)" <rostedt@...dmis.org>
Subject: [PATCH 3.16 126/328] uprobes: Use synchronize_rcu() not
 synchronize_sched()

3.16.62-rc1 review patch.  If anyone has any objections, please let me know.

------------------

From: "Steven Rostedt (VMware)" <rostedt@...dmis.org>

commit 016f8ffc48cb01d1e7701649c728c5d2e737d295 upstream.

While debugging another bug, I was looking at all the synchronize*()
functions being used in kernel/trace, and noticed that trace_uprobes was
using synchronize_sched(), with a comment to synchronize with
{u,ret}_probe_trace_func(). When looking at those functions, the data is
protected with "rcu_read_lock()" and not with "rcu_read_lock_sched()". This
is using the wrong synchronize_*() function.

Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20180809160553.469e1e32@gandalf.local.home

Fixes: 70ed91c6ec7f8 ("tracing/uprobes: Support ftrace_event_file base multibuffer")
Acked-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@...hat.com>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (VMware) <rostedt@...dmis.org>
Signed-off-by: Ben Hutchings <ben@...adent.org.uk>
---
 kernel/trace/trace_uprobe.c | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

--- a/kernel/trace/trace_uprobe.c
+++ b/kernel/trace/trace_uprobe.c
@@ -949,7 +949,7 @@ probe_event_disable(struct trace_uprobe
 
 		list_del_rcu(&link->list);
 		/* synchronize with u{,ret}probe_trace_func */
-		synchronize_sched();
+		synchronize_rcu();
 		kfree(link);
 
 		if (!list_empty(&tu->tp.files))