From e846d13958066828a9483d862cc8370a72fadbb6 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Zhou Chengming Date: Thu, 2 Nov 2017 09:18:21 +0800 Subject: kprobes, x86/alternatives: Use text_mutex to protect smp_alt_modules We use alternatives_text_reserved() to check if the address is in the fixed pieces of alternative reserved, but the problem is that we don't hold the smp_alt mutex when call this function. So the list traversal may encounter a deleted list_head if another path is doing alternatives_smp_module_del(). One solution is that we can hold smp_alt mutex before call this function, but the difficult point is that the callers of this functions, arch_prepare_kprobe() and arch_prepare_optimized_kprobe(), are called inside the text_mutex. So we must hold smp_alt mutex before we go into these arch dependent code. But we can't now, the smp_alt mutex is the arch dependent part, only x86 has it. Maybe we can export another arch dependent callback to solve this. But there is a simpler way to handle this problem. We can reuse the text_mutex to protect smp_alt_modules instead of using another mutex. And all the arch dependent checks of kprobes are inside the text_mutex, so it's safe now. Signed-off-by: Zhou Chengming Reviewed-by: Masami Hiramatsu Acked-by: Steven Rostedt (VMware) Cc: Andy Lutomirski Cc: Borislav Petkov Cc: Brian Gerst Cc: Denys Vlasenko Cc: H. Peter Anvin Cc: Josh Poimboeuf Cc: Linus Torvalds Cc: Peter Zijlstra Cc: Thomas Gleixner Cc: bp@suse.de Fixes: 2cfa197 "ftrace/alternatives: Introducing *_text_reserved functions" Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1509585501-79466-1-git-send-email-zhouchengming1@huawei.com Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar --- kernel/extable.c | 2 ++ 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+) (limited to 'kernel/extable.c') diff --git a/kernel/extable.c b/kernel/extable.c index 9aa1cc4..a17fdb6 100644 --- a/kernel/extable.c +++ b/kernel/extable.c @@ -31,6 +31,8 @@ * mutex protecting text section modification (dynamic code patching). * some users need to sleep (allocating memory...) while they hold this lock. * + * Note: Also protects SMP-alternatives modification on x86. + * * NOT exported to modules - patching kernel text is a really delicate matter. */ DEFINE_MUTEX(text_mutex); -- cgit v1.1