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authorMasami Hiramatsu <masami.hiramatsu.pt@hitachi.com>2013-05-22 18:34:09 +0900
committerIngo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>2013-05-28 10:37:59 +0200
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kprobes: Fix to free gone and unused optprobes
Fix to free gone and unused optprobes. This bug will cause a kernel panic if the user reuses the killed and unused probe. Reported at: http://sourceware.org/ml/systemtap/2013-q2/msg00142.html In the normal path, an optprobe on an init function is unregistered when a module goes live. unregister_kprobe(kp) -> __unregister_kprobe_top ->__disable_kprobe ->disarm_kprobe(ap == op) ->__disarm_kprobe ->unoptimize_kprobe : the op is queued on unoptimizing_list and do nothing in __unregister_kprobe_bottom After a while (usually wait 5 jiffies), kprobe_optimizer runs to unoptimize and free optprobe. kprobe_optimizer ->do_unoptimize_kprobes ->arch_unoptimize_kprobes : moved to free_list ->do_free_cleaned_kprobes ->hlist_del: the op is removed ->free_aggr_kprobe ->arch_remove_optimized_kprobe ->arch_remove_kprobe ->kfree: the op is freed Here, if kprobes_module_callback is called and the delayed unoptimizing probe is picked BEFORE kprobe_optimizer runs, kprobes_module_callback ->kill_kprobe ->kill_optimized_kprobe : dequeued from unoptimizing_list <=!!! ->arch_remove_optimized_kprobe ->arch_remove_kprobe (but op is not freed, and on the kprobe hash table) This doesn't happen if the probe unregistration is done AFTER kprobes_module_callback is called (because at that time the op is gone), and kprobe-tracer does it. To fix this bug, this patch changes kprobes_module_callback to enqueue the op to freeing_list at kill_optimized_kprobe only if the op is unused. The unused probes on freeing_list will be freed in do_free_cleaned_kprobes. Note that this calls arch_remove_*kprobe twice on the same probe. Thus those functions have to check the double free. Fortunately, most of arch codes already checked that except for mips. This will be fixed in the next patch. Signed-off-by: Masami Hiramatsu <masami.hiramatsu.pt@hitachi.com> Cc: Timo Juhani Lindfors <timo.lindfors@iki.fi> Cc: Ananth N Mavinakayanahalli <ananth@in.ibm.com> Cc: Anil S Keshavamurthy <anil.s.keshavamurthy@intel.com> Cc: Frank Ch. Eigler <fche@redhat.com> Cc: systemtap@sourceware.org Cc: yrl.pp-manager.tt@hitachi.com Cc: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net> Cc: "David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20130522093409.9084.63554.stgit@mhiramat-M0-7522 [ Minor edits. ] Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
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