Re: [PATCH] kprobes, x86/alternatives: use text_mutex to protect smp_alt_modules

[Borislav Petkov]

On Fri, Oct 27, 2017 at 07:42:45PM +0800, zhouchengming wrote:
> This is a real bug happened on one of our machines, below is the calltrace.
> We can see the trigger is at alternatives_text_reserved+0x20/0x80, and
> encounter a deleted (poisoned) list_head.

Looks like some out-of-tree, old kernel thing. We don't have
mlx4_stats_sysfs_create() upstream and looking at the boot timestamps,
it could be that register_jprobe() is not ready yet.

Looking at the Code, though:

  20:   74 59                   je     0x7b
  22:   66 0f 1f 84 00 00 00    nopw   0x0(%rax,%rax,1)
  29:   00 00 
  2b:*  48 3b 71 20             cmp    0x20(%rcx),%rsi          <-- trapping instruction
  2f:   72 3a                   jb     0x6b
  31:   48 3b 79 28             cmp    0x28(%rcx),%rdi
  35:   77 34                   ja     0x6b

%rcx is 0xdead0000000000d0 and that is POISON_POINTER_DELTA + 0xd0 so
that looks more like smp_alt_modules is not initialized yet but I could
could very well be wrong because this is an old kernel. So trigger that
with the upstream kernel without out of tree modules.

Thx.

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