[RFC PATCH V2] tracing/kprobe: Wait for disabling all running kprobehandlers

[Masami Hiramatsu]

Wait for disabling all running kprobe handlers when a kprobe
event is disabled, since the caller, trace_remove_event_call()
supposes that a removing event is disabled completely by
disabling the event.
With this change, ftrace can ensure that there is no running
event handlers after disabling it.

Changes in V2:
 - Comment (in code) for clarify why we need to wait there.

Signed-off-by: Masami Hiramatsu <masami.hiramatsu.pt@xxxxxxxxxxx>
---
 kernel/trace/trace_kprobe.c |   23 +++++++++++++++++------
 1 file changed, 17 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-)

diff --git a/kernel/trace/trace_kprobe.c b/kernel/trace/trace_kprobe.c
index 7ed6976..8374f78 100644
--- a/kernel/trace/trace_kprobe.c
+++ b/kernel/trace/trace_kprobe.c
@@ -243,11 +243,11 @@ find_event_file_link(struct trace_probe *tp, struct ftrace_event_file *file)
 static int
 disable_trace_probe(struct trace_probe *tp, struct ftrace_event_file *file)
 {
+	struct event_file_link *link = NULL;
+	int wait = 0;
 	int ret = 0;
 
 	if (file) {
-		struct event_file_link *link;
-
 		link = find_event_file_link(tp, file);
 		if (!link) {
 			ret = -EINVAL;
@@ -255,10 +255,7 @@ disable_trace_probe(struct trace_probe *tp, struct ftrace_event_file *file)
 		}
 
 		list_del_rcu(&link->list);
-		/* synchronize with kprobe_trace_func/kretprobe_trace_func */
-		synchronize_sched();
-		kfree(link);
-
+		wait = 1;
 		if (!list_empty(&tp->files))
 			goto out;
 
@@ -271,8 +268,22 @@ disable_trace_probe(struct trace_probe *tp, struct ftrace_event_file *file)
 			disable_kretprobe(&tp->rp);
 		else
 			disable_kprobe(&tp->rp.kp);
+		wait = 1;
 	}
  out:
+	if (wait) {
+		/*
+		 * Synchronize with kprobe_trace_func/kretprobe_trace_func
+		 * to ensure disabled (all running handlers are finished).
+		 * This is not only for kfree(), but also the caller,
+		 * trace_remove_event_call() supposes it for releasing
+		 * event_call related objects, which will be accessed in
+		 * the kprobe_trace_func/kretprobe_trace_func.
+		 */
+		synchronize_sched();
+		kfree(link);	/* Ignored if link == NULL */
+	}
+
 	return ret;
 }
 

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