Re: [PATCH -tip V2 0/2] kprobes: Fix RCU warning and cleanup

[Masami Hiramatsu]

Hi Joel and Paul,

On Fri, 10 Jan 2020 16:14:38 -0500
Joel Fernandes <joel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> On Tue, Jan 07, 2020 at 09:15:35PM +0900, Masami Hiramatsu wrote:
> > Hello,
> > 
> > Anyone have any comment on this series?
> > Without this series, I still see the suspicious RCU warning for kprobe on -tip tree.
> 
> +Paul since RCU.
> 
> Hi Masami,
> 
> I believe I had commented before that I don't agree with this patch:
> https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/157535318870.16485.6366477974356032624.stgit@devnote2/
> 
> The rationale you used is to replace RCU-api with non-RCU api just to avoid
> warnings. I think a better approach is to use RCU api and pass the optional
> expression to silence the false-positive warnings by informing the RCU API
> about the fact that locks are held (similar to what we do for
> rcu_dereference_protected()). The RCU API will do additional checking
> (such as making sure preemption is disabled for safe RCU usage etc) as well.

Yes, that is what I did in [1/2] for get_kprobe().
Let me clarify the RCU list usage in [2/2].

With the careful check, other list traversals never be done in non-sleepable
context, those are always runs with kprobe_mutex held.
If I correctly understand the Documentation/RCU/listRCU.rst, we should/can use
non-RCU api for those cases, or do I miss something?

Thank you,

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Masami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@xxxxxxxxxx>