kprobes, x86/alternatives: Use text_mutex to protect smp_alt_modules
authorZhou Chengming <zhouchengming1@huawei.com>
Thu, 2 Nov 2017 01:18:21 +0000 (09:18 +0800)
committerBen Hutchings <ben@decadent.org.uk>
Tue, 13 Feb 2018 18:32:14 +0000 (18:32 +0000)
commit49a4d6bd43f056aad372f8315ce7cd50e131d909
tree9b4731e3c20b80b1caf506041e89157355933e2f
parent0ed38b9005b4d959baa7a454e8e81784488b3a49
kprobes, x86/alternatives: Use text_mutex to protect smp_alt_modules

commit e846d13958066828a9483d862cc8370a72fadbb6 upstream.

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 <zhouchengming1@huawei.com>
Reviewed-by: Masami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@kernel.org>
Acked-by: Steven Rostedt (VMware) <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Cc: Andy Lutomirski <luto@kernel.org>
Cc: Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de>
Cc: Brian Gerst <brgerst@gmail.com>
Cc: Denys Vlasenko <dvlasenk@redhat.com>
Cc: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
Cc: Josh Poimboeuf <jpoimboe@redhat.com>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
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 <mingo@kernel.org>
[bwh: Backported to 3.2: adjust context]
Signed-off-by: Ben Hutchings <ben@decadent.org.uk>
arch/x86/kernel/alternative.c
kernel/extable.c