Re: [PATCHv2] kretprobe: Prevent triggering kretprobe from within kprobe_flush_task

From: Jiri Olsa
Date: Thu May 07 2020 - 06:15:35 EST


On Fri, May 01, 2020 at 11:01:07AM +0900, Masami Hiramatsu wrote:
> On Tue, 28 Apr 2020 23:36:27 +0200
> Jiri Olsa <jolsa@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> > On Fri, Apr 17, 2020 at 04:38:10PM +0900, Masami Hiramatsu wrote:
> >
> > SNIP
> >
> > > >
> > > > The code within the kretprobe handler checks for probe reentrancy,
> > > > so we won't trigger any _raw_spin_lock_irqsave probe in there.
> > > >
> > > > The problem is in outside kprobe_flush_task, where we call:
> > > >
> > > > kprobe_flush_task
> > > > kretprobe_table_lock
> > > > raw_spin_lock_irqsave
> > > > _raw_spin_lock_irqsave
> > > >
> > > > where _raw_spin_lock_irqsave triggers the kretprobe and installs
> > > > kretprobe_trampoline handler on _raw_spin_lock_irqsave return.
> > > >
> > > > The kretprobe_trampoline handler is then executed with already
> > > > locked kretprobe_table_locks, and first thing it does is to
> > > > lock kretprobe_table_locks ;-) the whole lockup path like:
> > > >
> > > > kprobe_flush_task
> > > > kretprobe_table_lock
> > > > raw_spin_lock_irqsave
> > > > _raw_spin_lock_irqsave ---> probe triggered, kretprobe_trampoline installed
> > > >
> > > > ---> kretprobe_table_locks locked
> > > >
> > > > kretprobe_trampoline
> > > > trampoline_handler
> > > > kretprobe_hash_lock(current, &head, &flags); <--- deadlock
> > > >
> > > > Adding kprobe_busy_begin/end helpers that mark code with fake
> > > > probe installed to prevent triggering of another kprobe within
> > > > this code.
> > > >
> > > > Using these helpers in kprobe_flush_task, so the probe recursion
> > > > protection check is hit and the probe is never set to prevent
> > > > above lockup.
> > > >
> > >
> > > Thanks Jiri!
> > >
> > > Ingo, could you pick this up?
> >
> > Ingo, any chance you could take this one?
>
> Hi Ingo,
>
> Should I make a pull request for all kprobes related patches to you?

looks like Ingo is offline, Thomas, could you please pull this one?

thanks,
jirka