linux-kernel - [tip: perf/kprobes] kprobes: Remove NMI context check

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Message-ID: <160010377449.15536.10398989560902081648.tip-bot2@tip-bot2>
Date:   Mon, 14 Sep 2020 17:16:14 -0000
From:   "tip-bot2 for Masami Hiramatsu" <tip-bot2@...utronix.de>
To:     linux-tip-commits@...r.kernel.org
Cc:     Masami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@...nel.org>,
        "Peter Zijlstra (Intel)" <peterz@...radead.org>,
        Ingo Molnar <mingo@...nel.org>, x86 <x86@...nel.org>,
        LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: [tip: perf/kprobes] kprobes: Remove NMI context check

The following commit has been merged into the perf/kprobes branch of tip:

Commit-ID:     e03b4a084ea6b0a18b0e874baec439e69090c168
Gitweb:        https://git.kernel.org/tip/e03b4a084ea6b0a18b0e874baec439e69090c168
Author:        Masami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@...nel.org>
AuthorDate:    Sat, 29 Aug 2020 22:02:36 +09:00
Committer:     Ingo Molnar <mingo@...nel.org>
CommitterDate: Tue, 08 Sep 2020 11:52:35 +02:00

kprobes: Remove NMI context check

The in_nmi() check in pre_handler_kretprobe() is meant to avoid
recursion, and blindly assumes that anything NMI is recursive.

However, since commit:

  9b38cc704e84 ("kretprobe: Prevent triggering kretprobe from within kprobe_flush_task")

there is a better way to detect and avoid actual recursion.

By setting a dummy kprobe, any actual exceptions will terminate early
(by trying to handle the dummy kprobe), and recursion will not happen.

Employ this to avoid the kretprobe_table_lock() recursion, replacing
the over-eager in_nmi() check.

Signed-off-by: Masami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@...nel.org>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@...radead.org>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@...nel.org>
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/159870615628.1229682.6087311596892125907.stgit@devnote2
---
 kernel/kprobes.c | 16 ++++------------
 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 12 deletions(-)

diff --git a/kernel/kprobes.c b/kernel/kprobes.c
index a0afaa7..2111382 100644
--- a/kernel/kprobes.c
+++ b/kernel/kprobes.c
@@ -1359,7 +1359,8 @@ static void cleanup_rp_inst(struct kretprobe *rp)
 	struct hlist_node *next;
 	struct hlist_head *head;
 
-	/* No race here */
+	/* To avoid recursive kretprobe by NMI, set kprobe busy here */
+	kprobe_busy_begin();
 	for (hash = 0; hash < KPROBE_TABLE_SIZE; hash++) {
 		kretprobe_table_lock(hash, &flags);
 		head = &kretprobe_inst_table[hash];
@@ -1369,6 +1370,8 @@ static void cleanup_rp_inst(struct kretprobe *rp)
 		}
 		kretprobe_table_unlock(hash, &flags);
 	}
+	kprobe_busy_end();
+
 	free_rp_inst(rp);
 }
 NOKPROBE_SYMBOL(cleanup_rp_inst);
@@ -2035,17 +2038,6 @@ static int pre_handler_kretprobe(struct kprobe *p, struct pt_regs *regs)
 	unsigned long hash, flags = 0;
 	struct kretprobe_instance *ri;
 
-	/*
-	 * To avoid deadlocks, prohibit return probing in NMI contexts,
-	 * just skip the probe and increase the (inexact) 'nmissed'
-	 * statistical counter, so that the user is informed that
-	 * something happened:
-	 */
-	if (unlikely(in_nmi())) {
-		rp->nmissed++;
-		return 0;
-	}
-
 	/* TODO: consider to only swap the RA after the last pre_handler fired */
 	hash = hash_ptr(current, KPROBE_HASH_BITS);
 	raw_spin_lock_irqsave(&rp->lock, flags);