linux-kernel - Re: Oops caused by race between livepatch and ftrace

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Date:   Tue, 21 May 2019 12:53:19 -0400
From:   Steven Rostedt <rostedt@...dmis.org>
To:     Josh Poimboeuf <jpoimboe@...hat.com>
Cc:     Johannes Erdfelt <johannes@...felt.com>,
        Joe Lawrence <joe.lawrence@...hat.com>,
        Jessica Yu <jeyu@...nel.org>, Jiri Kosina <jikos@...nel.org>,
        Miroslav Benes <mbenes@...e.cz>,
        Ingo Molnar <mingo@...hat.com>, live-patching@...r.kernel.org,
        linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Oops caused by race between livepatch and ftrace

On Tue, 21 May 2019 11:42:27 -0500
Josh Poimboeuf <jpoimboe@...hat.com> wrote:

> Hm.  I suppose using ftrace_lock might be less risky since that lock is
> only used internally by ftrace (up until now).  But I think it would
> also make less sense because the text_mutex is supposed to protect code
> patching.  And presumably ftrace_lock is supposed to be ftrace-specific.
> 
> Here's the latest patch, still using text_mutex.  I added some lockdep
> assertions to ensure the permissions toggling functions are always
> called with text_mutex.  It's running through 0-day right now.  I can
> try to run it through various tests with CONFIG_LOCKDEP.

Yeah, text_mutex probably does make more sense. ftrace_mutex was around
before text_mutex as ftrace was the first one to do the runtime
patching (after boot has finished). It wasn't until we introduced
text_poke that we decided to create the text_mutex locking as well.

> 
> 
> From: Josh Poimboeuf <jpoimboe@...hat.com>
> Subject: [PATCH] livepatch: Fix ftrace module text permissions race

Thanks,

I'll try to find some time to test this as well.

-- Steve