From: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
To: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Cc: Alexei Starovoitov <alexei.starovoitov@gmail.com>,
Masami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@kernel.org>,
Nikolay Borisov <nborisov@suse.com>,
LKML <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
Alexei Starovoitov <ast@kernel.org>, bpf <bpf@vger.kernel.org>,
Josh Poimboeuf <jpoimboe@redhat.com>
Subject: Re: kprobes broken since 0d00449c7a28 ("x86: Replace ist_enter() with nmi_enter()")
Date: Sat, 30 Jan 2021 09:28:32 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <YBUYsFlxjsQxuvfB@hirez.programming.kicks-ass.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20210129162454.293523c6@gandalf.local.home>
On Fri, Jan 29, 2021 at 04:24:54PM -0500, Steven Rostedt wrote:
> Specifically, kprobe and ftrace callbacks may have this:
>
> if (in_nmi())
> return;
>
> raw_spin_lock_irqsave(&lock, flags);
> [..]
> raw_spin_unlock_irqrestore(&lock, flags);
>
> Which is totally fine to have,
Why? There's a distinct lack of explaining here.
Note that we ripped out all such dodgy locking from kretprobes.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2021-01-30 9:22 UTC|newest]
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2021-01-28 3:38 ` kprobes broken since 0d00449c7a28 ("x86: Replace ist_enter() with nmi_enter()") Masami Hiramatsu
2021-01-28 7:11 ` Nikolay Borisov
2021-01-28 16:12 ` Nikolay Borisov
2021-01-28 16:45 ` Nikolay Borisov
2021-01-28 16:50 ` Josh Poimboeuf
2021-01-28 21:52 ` [PATCH] x86: Disable CET instrumentation in the kernel Josh Poimboeuf
2021-01-29 6:23 ` Nikolay Borisov
2021-01-29 10:21 ` Borislav Petkov
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2021-01-29 16:30 ` Borislav Petkov
2021-01-29 16:49 ` Josh Poimboeuf
2021-01-29 16:54 ` Nikolay Borisov
2021-01-29 17:03 ` Josh Poimboeuf
2021-01-29 17:07 ` Borislav Petkov
2021-01-29 17:58 ` Seth Forshee
2021-01-28 18:24 ` kprobes broken since 0d00449c7a28 ("x86: Replace ist_enter() with nmi_enter()") Peter Zijlstra
2021-01-29 1:34 ` Alexei Starovoitov
2021-01-29 6:36 ` Nikolay Borisov
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[not found] ` <20210129105952.74dc8464@gandalf.local.home>
2021-01-29 16:24 ` Peter Zijlstra
2021-01-29 17:45 ` Alexei Starovoitov
2021-01-29 17:59 ` Peter Zijlstra
2021-01-29 19:01 ` Steven Rostedt
2021-01-29 21:05 ` Alexei Starovoitov
2021-01-30 1:41 ` Masami Hiramatsu
2021-01-29 21:24 ` Steven Rostedt
2021-01-30 8:28 ` Peter Zijlstra [this message]
2021-01-30 12:44 ` Steven Rostedt
2021-02-02 10:45 ` Peter Zijlstra
2021-02-02 14:52 ` Steven Rostedt
2021-02-02 16:45 ` Peter Zijlstra
2021-02-02 16:56 ` Steven Rostedt
2021-02-02 18:30 ` Peter Zijlstra
2021-02-02 21:05 ` Steven Rostedt
2021-02-03 13:33 ` Masami Hiramatsu
2021-02-03 13:52 ` Steven Rostedt
2021-01-30 2:02 ` Masami Hiramatsu
2021-01-30 3:08 ` Alexei Starovoitov
2021-01-30 12:10 ` Masami Hiramatsu
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