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Message-ID: <20200618235639.461957330@goodmis.org>
Date: Thu, 18 Jun 2020 19:55:58 -0400
From: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@...dmis.org>
To: linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@...nel.org>,
Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
Anders Roxell <anders.roxell@...aro.org>,
Joel Fernandes <joel@...lfernandes.org>,
Masami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@...nel.org>
Subject: [for-linus][PATCH 02/17] kprobes: Suppress the suspicious RCU warning on kprobes
From: Masami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@...nel.org>
Anders reported that the lockdep warns that suspicious
RCU list usage in register_kprobe() (detected by
CONFIG_PROVE_RCU_LIST.) This is because get_kprobe()
access kprobe_table[] by hlist_for_each_entry_rcu()
without rcu_read_lock.
If we call get_kprobe() from the breakpoint handler context,
it is run with preempt disabled, so this is not a problem.
But in other cases, instead of rcu_read_lock(), we locks
kprobe_mutex so that the kprobe_table[] is not updated.
So, current code is safe, but still not good from the view
point of RCU.
Joel suggested that we can silent that warning by passing
lockdep_is_held() to the last argument of
hlist_for_each_entry_rcu().
Add lockdep_is_held(&kprobe_mutex) at the end of the
hlist_for_each_entry_rcu() to suppress the warning.
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/158927055350.27680.10261450713467997503.stgit@devnote2
Reported-by: Anders Roxell <anders.roxell@...aro.org>
Suggested-by: Joel Fernandes <joel@...lfernandes.org>
Reviewed-by: Joel Fernandes (Google) <joel@...lfernandes.org>
Signed-off-by: Masami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@...nel.org>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (VMware) <rostedt@...dmis.org>
---
kernel/kprobes.c | 3 ++-
1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
diff --git a/kernel/kprobes.c b/kernel/kprobes.c
index 50cd84f53df0..8b2fd4145ab3 100644
--- a/kernel/kprobes.c
+++ b/kernel/kprobes.c
@@ -326,7 +326,8 @@ struct kprobe *get_kprobe(void *addr)
struct kprobe *p;
head = &kprobe_table[hash_ptr(addr, KPROBE_HASH_BITS)];
- hlist_for_each_entry_rcu(p, head, hlist) {
+ hlist_for_each_entry_rcu(p, head, hlist,
+ lockdep_is_held(&kprobe_mutex)) {
if (p->addr == addr)
return p;
}
--
2.26.2
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