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From: Ananth N Mavinakayanahalli <ananth@in.ibm.com>
To: Masami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@redhat.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>, lkml<linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
	        systemtap<systemtap@sources.redhat.com>,
	        DLE<dle-develop@lists.sourceforge.net>,
	        Dave Anderson <anderson@redhat.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH -tip 2/2] [BUGFIX] kprobes/x86: Fix removed int3 	checking order
Date: Wed, 28 Apr 2010 17:30:00 -0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20100428030004.GA5541@in.ibm.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20100427223348.2322.9112.stgit@localhost6.localdomain6>

On Tue, Apr 27, 2010 at 06:33:49PM -0400, Masami Hiramatsu wrote:
> Fix kprobe/x86 to check removed int3 when failing to get kprobe
> from hlist. Since we have a time window between checking int3
> exists on probed address and getting kprobe on that address,
> we can have following senario.
> -------
> CPU1                     CPU2
> hit int3
> check int3 exists
>                          remove int3
>                          remove kprobe from hlist
> get kprobe from hlist
> no kprobe->OOPS!
> -------

Do you have a testcase for this issue?

> This patch moves int3 checking if there is no kprobe on that
> address for fixing this problem as follows;
> ------
> CPU1                     CPU2
> hit int3
>                          remove int3
>                          remove kprobe from hlist
> get kprobe from hlist
> no kprobe->check int3 exists
>          ->rollback&retry
> ------

You may also want to fix up the comment on top of kprobe_handler() about
the interrupt gate as its only true for x86_32 and not x86_64, right?

> Signed-off-by: Masami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@redhat.com>
> Cc: Ananth N Mavinakayanahalli <ananth@in.ibm.com>
> Cc: Dave Anderson <anderson@redhat.com>
> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>

Acked-by: Ananth N Mavinakayanahalli <ananth@in.ibm.com>

  reply	other threads:[~2010-04-28  3:00 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2010-04-28 11:52 [PATCH -tip 1/2] [RESEND] kprobes: Move enable/disable_kprobe() out from debugfs code Masami Hiramatsu
2010-04-28 11:56 ` [PATCH -tip 2/2] [BUGFIX] kprobes/x86: Fix removed int3 checking order Masami Hiramatsu
2010-04-28 17:30   ` Ananth N Mavinakayanahalli [this message]
2010-04-28 17:54     ` Masami Hiramatsu
2010-04-30 19:45       ` Ananth N Mavinakayanahalli
2010-05-10 14:27   ` [tip:perf/urgent] " tip-bot for Masami Hiramatsu
2010-05-11 16:15   ` tip-bot for Masami Hiramatsu
2010-05-10 17:06 ` [PATCH -tip 1/2] [RESEND] kprobes: Move enable/disable_kprobe() out from debugfs code Masami Hiramatsu
2010-05-10 17:29   ` Ingo Molnar
2010-05-10 17:47 ` [tip:perf/core] " tip-bot for Masami Hiramatsu

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