Re: [PATCH] tracing/kprobe: Recover old array if fails to enablekprobe

From: Oleg Nesterov
Date: Fri Jun 28 2013 - 10:32:49 EST


On 06/28, Masami Hiramatsu wrote:
>
> @@ -232,19 +246,21 @@ enable_trace_probe(struct trace_probe *tp, struct ftrace_event_file *file)
> rcu_assign_pointer(tp->files, new);
> tp->flags |= TP_FLAG_TRACE;
>
> + ret = __enable_trace_probe(tp);
> + if (ret < 0) {
> + /* Write back the old list */
> + rcu_assign_pointer(tp->files, old);
> + old = new; /* "new" must be freed */
> + }
> +
> if (old) {
> /* Make sure the probe is done with old files */
> synchronize_sched();
> kfree(old);
> }

Ah, but this conflicts with the other changes I sent. They have
your acks, and iiuc Steven is going to apply them.

Besides, this fix is not complete afaics, we should also clear
TP_FLAG_TRACE/PROFILE if __enable_trace_probe() fails.

Perhaps you can do this later, on top of the pending changes?

Or. Given that this patch assumes that enable_kprobe() must succed,
can't we make a minimal change for now?

-------------------------------------------------------------------------------
[PATCH] tracing/kprobe: WARN() if enable_kprobe() fails.

enable_trace_probe() doesn't recover tp->files/flags if enable_kprobe()
fails, this looks confusing.

However, enable_kprobe() must not fail at this time except for unknown
bug or changing the implementation of enable_kprobe(), because usual
failure cases (not registered or gone) are already filtered.

So this patch simply adds WARN_ON(ret) to document this fact, even if
it makes sense to cleanup the logic anyway later.

Reported-by: Srikar Dronamraju <srikar@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@xxxxxxxxxx>
---
kernel/trace/trace_kprobe.c | 1 +
1 files changed, 1 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-)

diff --git a/kernel/trace/trace_kprobe.c b/kernel/trace/trace_kprobe.c
index 5c070db..bb608b5 100644
--- a/kernel/trace/trace_kprobe.c
+++ b/kernel/trace/trace_kprobe.c
@@ -220,6 +220,7 @@ enable_trace_probe(struct trace_probe *tp, struct ftrace_event_file *file)
ret = enable_kretprobe(&tp->rp);
else
ret = enable_kprobe(&tp->rp.kp);
+ WARN_ON(ret);
}
out:
return ret;

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