[PATCH] kprobes: retry pending optprobe after freeing blocker
From: hongao
Date: Mon Oct 27 2025 - 09:06:46 EST
The freeing_list cleanup now retries optimizing any sibling probe that was
deferred while this aggregator was being torn down. Track the pending
address in struct optimized_kprobe so __disarm_kprobe() can defer the
retry until kprobe_optimizer() finishes disarming.
Signed-off-by: hongao <hongao@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
diff --git a/include/linux/kprobes.h b/include/linux/kprobes.h
index 8c4f3bb24..33d65b008 100644
--- a/include/linux/kprobes.h
+++ b/include/linux/kprobes.h
@@ -338,6 +338,7 @@ DEFINE_INSN_CACHE_OPS(insn);
struct optimized_kprobe {
struct kprobe kp;
struct list_head list; /* list for optimizing queue */
+ kprobe_opcode_t *pending_reopt_addr; /* addr that should trigger re-optimization */
struct arch_optimized_insn optinsn;
};
diff --git a/kernel/kprobes.c b/kernel/kprobes.c
index da59c68df..0976ab57d 100644
--- a/kernel/kprobes.c
+++ b/kernel/kprobes.c
@@ -514,6 +514,7 @@ static LIST_HEAD(freeing_list);
static void kprobe_optimizer(struct work_struct *work);
static DECLARE_DELAYED_WORK(optimizing_work, kprobe_optimizer);
+static void optimize_kprobe(struct kprobe *p);
#define OPTIMIZE_DELAY 5
/*
@@ -591,6 +592,20 @@ static void do_free_cleaned_kprobes(void)
*/
continue;
}
+ if (op->pending_reopt_addr) {
+ struct kprobe *blocked;
+
+ /*
+ * The aggregator was holding back another probe while it sat on the
+ * unoptimizing/freeing lists. Now that the aggregator has been fully
+ * reverted we can safely retry the optimization of that sibling.
+ */
+
+ blocked = get_optimized_kprobe(op->pending_reopt_addr);
+ if (unlikely(blocked))
+ optimize_kprobe(blocked);
+ }
+
free_aggr_kprobe(&op->kp);
}
}
@@ -1009,13 +1024,13 @@ static void __disarm_kprobe(struct kprobe *p, bool reopt)
_p = get_optimized_kprobe(p->addr);
if (unlikely(_p) && reopt)
optimize_kprobe(_p);
+ } else if (reopt && kprobe_aggrprobe(p)) {
+ struct optimized_kprobe *op =
+ container_of(p, struct optimized_kprobe, kp);
+
+ /* Defer the re-optimization until the worker finishes disarming. */
+ op->pending_reopt_addr = p->addr;
}
- /*
- * TODO: Since unoptimization and real disarming will be done by
- * the worker thread, we can not check whether another probe are
- * unoptimized because of this probe here. It should be re-optimized
- * by the worker thread.
- */
}
#else /* !CONFIG_OPTPROBES */
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