From: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>
To: Masami Hiramatsu <masami.hiramatsu.pt@hitachi.com>
Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
"zhangwei(Jovi)" <jovi.zhangwei@huawei.com>,
Jiri Olsa <jolsa@redhat.com>,
Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>,
Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@ghostprotocols.net>,
Srikar Dronamraju <srikar@linux.vnet.ibm.com>,
Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>,
Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com>,
Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Subject: Re: [RFC][PATCH 3/4] tracing/kprobes: Fail to unregister if probe event files are open
Date: Thu, 4 Jul 2013 20:48:13 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20130704184813.GA2695@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <51D56E74.3090404@hitachi.com>
On 07/04, Masami Hiramatsu wrote:
>
> (2013/07/04 12:33), Steven Rostedt wrote:
> > + /* Will fail if probe is being used by ftrace or perf */
> > + if (unregister_probe_event(tp))
> > + return -EBUSY;
> > +
> > __unregister_trace_probe(tp);
> > list_del(&tp->list);
> > - unregister_probe_event(tp);
> >
> > return 0;
> > }
>
> This may cause an unexpected access violation at kprobe handler because
> unregister_probe_event frees event_call/event_files and it will be
> accessed until kprobe is *completely* disabled.
I don't think so... Please correct me.
(but yes I think the patch needs a small update, see below).
> Actually disable_kprobe() doesn't ensure to finish the current running
> kprobe handlers.
Yes. in fact disable_trace_probe(file != NULL) does, but perf doesn't.
> Thus, even if trace_probe_is_enabled() returns false,
> we must do synchronize_sched() for waiting, before unregister_probe_event().
No, I think we should simply kill trace_probe_is_enabled() here.
And synchronize_sched() _before_ unregister_probe_event() can't
help, exactly because trace_probe_is_enabled() is racy.
> OTOH, unregister_kprobe() waits for that.
Yes.
So I think we only need to move kfree(tp->call.print_fmt). In fact I
already wrote the patch assuming that trace_remove_event_call() will
be changed as we discussed.
So the sequence should be:
if (trace_remove_event_call(...))
return;
/* does synchronize_sched */
unregister_kprobe();
kfree(everything);
Agreed?
Oleg.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2013-07-04 18:53 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 67+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2013-07-04 3:33 [RFC][PATCH 0/4] tracing/kprobes/uprobes: Fix race between opening probe event files and deleting probe Steven Rostedt
2013-07-04 3:33 ` [RFC][PATCH 1/4] tracing: Add ref count to ftrace_event_call Steven Rostedt
2013-07-04 4:22 ` Masami Hiramatsu
2013-07-04 11:55 ` [RFC PATCH] tracing: Atomically get refcounts of event_call and trace_array Masami Hiramatsu
2013-07-04 12:12 ` Masami Hiramatsu
2013-07-04 12:23 ` Steven Rostedt
2013-07-05 0:32 ` Oleg Nesterov
2013-07-05 2:32 ` Masami Hiramatsu
2013-07-09 7:55 ` [RFC PATCH V2] tracing: Check f_dentry before accessing event_file/call in inode->i_private Masami Hiramatsu
2013-07-15 18:16 ` Oleg Nesterov
2013-07-17 2:10 ` Masami Hiramatsu
2013-07-17 14:51 ` Oleg Nesterov
2013-07-18 2:20 ` Masami Hiramatsu
2013-07-18 14:51 ` Oleg Nesterov
2013-07-19 5:21 ` Masami Hiramatsu
2013-07-19 13:33 ` Oleg Nesterov
2013-07-22 9:57 ` Masami Hiramatsu
2013-07-22 17:04 ` Oleg Nesterov
2013-07-23 21:04 ` Oleg Nesterov
2013-07-04 3:33 ` [RFC][PATCH 2/4] tracing: trace_remove_event_call() should fail if call/file is in use Steven Rostedt
2013-07-04 12:48 ` Masami Hiramatsu
2013-07-04 3:33 ` [RFC][PATCH 3/4] tracing/kprobes: Fail to unregister if probe event files are open Steven Rostedt
2013-07-04 12:45 ` Masami Hiramatsu
2013-07-04 18:48 ` Oleg Nesterov [this message]
2013-07-05 2:53 ` Masami Hiramatsu
2013-07-05 17:26 ` Oleg Nesterov
2013-07-08 2:36 ` Masami Hiramatsu
2013-07-08 14:25 ` Oleg Nesterov
2013-07-09 8:01 ` [RFC PATCH] tracing/kprobe: Wait for disabling all running kprobe handlers Masami Hiramatsu
2013-07-09 8:07 ` Peter Zijlstra
2013-07-09 8:20 ` Masami Hiramatsu
2013-07-09 8:21 ` Peter Zijlstra
2013-07-09 8:50 ` Masami Hiramatsu
2013-07-09 9:35 ` [RFC PATCH V2] " Masami Hiramatsu
2013-07-15 18:20 ` Oleg Nesterov
2013-07-18 12:07 ` Masami Hiramatsu
2013-07-18 14:35 ` Steven Rostedt
2013-07-30 8:15 ` [RFC][PATCH 3/4] tracing/kprobes: Fail to unregister if probe event files are open Masami Hiramatsu
2013-07-31 19:49 ` Steven Rostedt
2013-07-31 20:40 ` Oleg Nesterov
2013-07-31 22:42 ` Steven Rostedt
2013-08-01 2:07 ` Steven Rostedt
2013-08-01 2:50 ` Steven Rostedt
2013-08-01 3:48 ` Masami Hiramatsu
2013-08-01 13:34 ` Oleg Nesterov
2013-08-01 13:49 ` Oleg Nesterov
2013-08-01 14:17 ` Steven Rostedt
2013-08-01 14:33 ` Oleg Nesterov
2013-08-01 14:45 ` Steven Rostedt
2013-08-01 14:46 ` Oleg Nesterov
2013-08-02 4:57 ` Masami Hiramatsu
2013-08-01 13:10 ` Oleg Nesterov
2013-07-04 3:33 ` [RFC][PATCH 4/4] tracing/uprobes: " Steven Rostedt
2013-08-01 3:40 ` Steven Rostedt
2013-08-01 14:08 ` Oleg Nesterov
2013-08-01 14:25 ` Steven Rostedt
2013-07-04 4:00 ` [RFC][PATCH 0/4] tracing/kprobes/uprobes: Fix race between opening probe event files and deleting probe Masami Hiramatsu
2013-07-04 6:14 ` Masami Hiramatsu
2013-07-12 13:09 ` Masami Hiramatsu
2013-07-12 17:53 ` Oleg Nesterov
2013-07-15 18:01 ` Oleg Nesterov
2013-07-16 16:38 ` Oleg Nesterov
2013-07-16 19:10 ` Steven Rostedt
2013-07-16 19:22 ` Oleg Nesterov
2013-07-16 19:38 ` Steven Rostedt
2013-07-17 16:03 ` Steven Rostedt
2013-07-17 17:37 ` Oleg Nesterov
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