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authorFrederic Riss <frederic.riss@gmail.com>2009-09-21 08:43:30 +0100
committerRussell King <rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk>2009-09-21 16:39:12 +0100
commit2003b7af259611312ea132da1f5006ae0b8e47d7 (patch)
tree57287ad7863f5d67b40ce7202f3159dfac17aea9 /arch/arm/kernel
parentdf297bf6c7933e7b021cdc1bf3f9e319ea3a7e9c (diff)
ARM: 5715/1: Make kprobes unregistration SMP safe
ARM kprobes use an illegal instruction to trigger kprobes. In the current implementation, there's a race between the unregistration of a kprobe and the illegal instruction exception handler if they run at the same time on different cores. When reading the value of the undefined instruction, the exception handler might get the original legal instruction as just patched concurrently by arch_disarm_kprobe(). When this happen the kprobe handler won't run, and thus the exception handler will oops because it believe it just hit an undefined instruction in kernel space. The following patch synchronizes the code patching in the kprobes unregistration using stop_machine and thus avoids the above race. Signed-off-by: Frederic RISS <frederic.riss@gmail.com> Acked-by: Nicolas Pitre <nico@fluxnic.net> Signed-off-by: Russell King <rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk>
Diffstat (limited to 'arch/arm/kernel')
-rw-r--r--arch/arm/kernel/kprobes.c19
1 files changed, 17 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/arch/arm/kernel/kprobes.c b/arch/arm/kernel/kprobes.c
index f692efddd449..60c62c377fa9 100644
--- a/arch/arm/kernel/kprobes.c
+++ b/arch/arm/kernel/kprobes.c
@@ -22,6 +22,7 @@
#include <linux/kernel.h>
#include <linux/kprobes.h>
#include <linux/module.h>
+#include <linux/stop_machine.h>
#include <linux/stringify.h>
#include <asm/traps.h>
#include <asm/cacheflush.h>
@@ -83,10 +84,24 @@ void __kprobes arch_arm_kprobe(struct kprobe *p)
flush_insns(p->addr, 1);
}
+/*
+ * The actual disarming is done here on each CPU and synchronized using
+ * stop_machine. This synchronization is necessary on SMP to avoid removing
+ * a probe between the moment the 'Undefined Instruction' exception is raised
+ * and the moment the exception handler reads the faulting instruction from
+ * memory.
+ */
+int __kprobes __arch_disarm_kprobe(void *p)
+{
+ struct kprobe *kp = p;
+ *kp->addr = kp->opcode;
+ flush_insns(kp->addr, 1);
+ return 0;
+}
+
void __kprobes arch_disarm_kprobe(struct kprobe *p)
{
- *p->addr = p->opcode;
- flush_insns(p->addr, 1);
+ stop_machine(__arch_disarm_kprobe, p, &cpu_online_map);
}
void __kprobes arch_remove_kprobe(struct kprobe *p)