linux-kernel - Re: x86/kprobes: kretprobe fails to triggered if kprobe at function entry is not optimized (trigger by int3 breakpoint)

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Message-Id: <20200826172239.ff175be78ee5f3a4380579c3@kernel.org>
Date:   Wed, 26 Aug 2020 17:22:39 +0900
From:   Masami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@...nel.org>
To:     "Eddy_Wu@...ndmicro.com" <Eddy_Wu@...ndmicro.com>
Cc:     "peterz@...radead.org" <peterz@...radead.org>,
        Masami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@...nel.org>,
        "linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
        "x86@...nel.org" <x86@...nel.org>
Subject: Re: x86/kprobes: kretprobe fails to triggered if kprobe at function
 entry is not optimized (trigger by int3 breakpoint)

On Wed, 26 Aug 2020 07:07:09 +0000
"Eddy_Wu@...ndmicro.com" <Eddy_Wu@...ndmicro.com> wrote:

> 
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: peterz@...radead.org <peterz@...radead.org>
> > Sent: Tuesday, August 25, 2020 8:09 PM
> > To: Masami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@...nel.org>
> > Cc: Eddy Wu (RD-TW) <Eddy_Wu@...ndmicro.com>; linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org; x86@...nel.org; David S. Miller
> > <davem@...emloft.net>
> > Subject: Re: x86/kprobes: kretprobe fails to triggered if kprobe at function entry is not optimized (trigger by int3 breakpoint)
> >
> > Surely we can do a lockless list for this. We have llist_add() and
> > llist_del_first() to make a lockless LIFO/stack.
> >
> 
> llist operations require atomic cmpxchg, for some arch doesn't have CONFIG_ARCH_HAVE_NMI_SAFE_CMPXCHG, in_nmi() check might still needed.
> (HAVE_KRETPROBES && !CONFIG_ARCH_HAVE_NMI_SAFE_CMPXCHG): arc, arm, csky, mips

Good catch. In those cases, we can add in_nmi() check at arch dependent code.

Thank you,

-- 
Masami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@...nel.org>