[PATCH v6 2/5] tracing/fprobe: Remove fprobe from hash in failure path
From: Masami Hiramatsu (Google)
Date: Tue Apr 14 2026 - 05:15:12 EST
From: Masami Hiramatsu (Google) <mhiramat@xxxxxxxxxx>
When register_fprobe_ips() fails, it tries to remove a list of
fprobe_hash_node from fprobe_ip_table, but it missed to remove
fprobe itself from fprobe_table. Moreover, when removing
the fprobe_hash_node which is added to rhltable once, it must
use kfree_rcu() after removing from rhltable.
To fix these issues, this reuses unregister_fprobe() internal
code to rollback the half-way registered fprobe.
Fixes: 4346ba160409 ("fprobe: Rewrite fprobe on function-graph tracer")
Cc: stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Signed-off-by: Masami Hiramatsu (Google) <mhiramat@xxxxxxxxxx>
---
Changes in v6:
- Wait for an RCU grace period before returning error in
unregister_fprobe_nolock().
Changes in v5:
- When rolling back an fprobe that failed to register, the
fprobe_hash_node are forcibly removed and warn if failure.
Changes in v4:
- Remove short-cut case because we always need to upadte ftrace_ops.
- Use guard(mutex) in register_fprobe_ips() to unlock it correctly.
- Remove redundant !ret check in register_fprobe_ips().
- Do not set hlist_array->size in failure case, instead,
hlist_array->array[i].fp is set only when insertion is succeeded.
Changes in v3:
- Newly added.
---
kernel/trace/fprobe.c | 109 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++---------------------
1 file changed, 63 insertions(+), 46 deletions(-)
diff --git a/kernel/trace/fprobe.c b/kernel/trace/fprobe.c
index fc7018b28fdd..6a23bb787295 100644
--- a/kernel/trace/fprobe.c
+++ b/kernel/trace/fprobe.c
@@ -79,20 +79,27 @@ static const struct rhashtable_params fprobe_rht_params = {
};
/* Node insertion and deletion requires the fprobe_mutex */
-static int insert_fprobe_node(struct fprobe_hlist_node *node)
+static int insert_fprobe_node(struct fprobe_hlist_node *node, struct fprobe *fp)
{
+ int ret;
+
lockdep_assert_held(&fprobe_mutex);
- return rhltable_insert(&fprobe_ip_table, &node->hlist, fprobe_rht_params);
+ ret = rhltable_insert(&fprobe_ip_table, &node->hlist, fprobe_rht_params);
+ /* Set the fprobe pointer if insertion was successful. */
+ if (!ret)
+ WRITE_ONCE(node->fp, fp);
+ return ret;
}
/* Return true if there are synonims */
static bool delete_fprobe_node(struct fprobe_hlist_node *node)
{
- lockdep_assert_held(&fprobe_mutex);
bool ret;
- /* Avoid double deleting */
+ lockdep_assert_held(&fprobe_mutex);
+
+ /* Avoid double deleting and non-inserted nodes */
if (READ_ONCE(node->fp) != NULL) {
WRITE_ONCE(node->fp, NULL);
rhltable_remove(&fprobe_ip_table, &node->hlist,
@@ -757,7 +764,6 @@ static int fprobe_init(struct fprobe *fp, unsigned long *addrs, int num)
fp->hlist_array = hlist_array;
hlist_array->fp = fp;
for (i = 0; i < num; i++) {
- hlist_array->array[i].fp = fp;
addr = ftrace_location(addrs[i]);
if (!addr) {
fprobe_fail_cleanup(fp);
@@ -821,6 +827,8 @@ int register_fprobe(struct fprobe *fp, const char *filter, const char *notfilter
}
EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(register_fprobe);
+static int unregister_fprobe_nolock(struct fprobe *fp, bool force);
+
/**
* register_fprobe_ips() - Register fprobe to ftrace by address.
* @fp: A fprobe data structure to be registered.
@@ -847,29 +855,26 @@ int register_fprobe_ips(struct fprobe *fp, unsigned long *addrs, int num)
if (ret)
return ret;
- hlist_array = fp->hlist_array;
if (fprobe_is_ftrace(fp))
ret = fprobe_ftrace_add_ips(addrs, num);
else
ret = fprobe_graph_add_ips(addrs, num);
+ if (ret) {
+ fprobe_fail_cleanup(fp);
+ return ret;
+ }
- if (!ret) {
- add_fprobe_hash(fp);
- for (i = 0; i < hlist_array->size; i++) {
- ret = insert_fprobe_node(&hlist_array->array[i]);
- if (ret)
- break;
- }
- /* fallback on insert error */
+ hlist_array = fp->hlist_array;
+ add_fprobe_hash(fp);
+ for (i = 0; i < hlist_array->size; i++) {
+ ret = insert_fprobe_node(&hlist_array->array[i], fp);
if (ret) {
- for (i--; i >= 0; i--)
- delete_fprobe_node(&hlist_array->array[i]);
+ if (unregister_fprobe_nolock(fp, true))
+ pr_warn("Failed to cleanup fprobe after insertion failure.\n");
+ break;
}
}
- if (ret)
- fprobe_fail_cleanup(fp);
-
return ret;
}
EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(register_fprobe_ips);
@@ -912,37 +917,29 @@ bool fprobe_is_registered(struct fprobe *fp)
return true;
}
-/**
- * unregister_fprobe() - Unregister fprobe.
- * @fp: A fprobe data structure to be unregistered.
- *
- * Unregister fprobe (and remove ftrace hooks from the function entries).
- *
- * Return 0 if @fp is unregistered successfully, -errno if not.
- */
-int unregister_fprobe(struct fprobe *fp)
+static int unregister_fprobe_nolock(struct fprobe *fp, bool force)
{
- struct fprobe_hlist *hlist_array;
+ struct fprobe_hlist *hlist_array = fp->hlist_array;
unsigned long *addrs = NULL;
- int ret = 0, i, count;
+ int i, count;
- mutex_lock(&fprobe_mutex);
- if (!fp || !fprobe_registered(fp)) {
- ret = -EINVAL;
- goto out;
- }
-
- hlist_array = fp->hlist_array;
addrs = kcalloc(hlist_array->size, sizeof(unsigned long), GFP_KERNEL);
- if (!addrs) {
- ret = -ENOMEM; /* TODO: Fallback to one-by-one loop */
- goto out;
- }
+ if (!addrs && !force)
+ return -ENOMEM;
+ /*
+ * If @force is set, this function will remove fprobe_hash_node
+ * from the hash table even if memory allocation fails. However,
+ * ftrace_ops will not be updated. Anyway, when the last fprobe
+ * is unregistered, ftrace_ops is also unregistered.
+ */
/* Remove non-synonim ips from table and hash */
count = 0;
for (i = 0; i < hlist_array->size; i++) {
- if (!delete_fprobe_node(&hlist_array->array[i]))
+ if (delete_fprobe_node(&hlist_array->array[i]))
+ continue;
+
+ if (addrs)
addrs[count++] = hlist_array->array[i].addr;
}
del_fprobe_hash(fp);
@@ -951,15 +948,35 @@ int unregister_fprobe(struct fprobe *fp)
fprobe_ftrace_remove_ips(addrs, count);
else
fprobe_graph_remove_ips(addrs, count);
+ /*
+ * If count == 0, instead of calling ftrace_set_filter_ips(),
+ * we must wait for RCU grace period to finish del_fprobe_hash().
+ */
+ if (!count)
+ synchronize_rcu();
kfree_rcu(hlist_array, rcu);
fp->hlist_array = NULL;
+ kfree(addrs);
-out:
- mutex_unlock(&fprobe_mutex);
+ return !addrs ? -ENOMEM : 0;
+}
- kfree(addrs);
- return ret;
+/**
+ * unregister_fprobe() - Unregister fprobe.
+ * @fp: A fprobe data structure to be unregistered.
+ *
+ * Unregister fprobe (and remove ftrace hooks from the function entries).
+ *
+ * Return 0 if @fp is unregistered successfully, -errno if not.
+ */
+int unregister_fprobe(struct fprobe *fp)
+{
+ guard(mutex)(&fprobe_mutex);
+ if (!fp || !fprobe_registered(fp))
+ return -EINVAL;
+
+ return unregister_fprobe_nolock(fp, false);
}
EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(unregister_fprobe);