Re: [PATCH 02/12] uprobes: grab write mmap lock in unapply_uprobe()

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On Tue, Jun 25, 2024 at 12:09 PM Oleg Nesterov <oleg@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> On 06/25, Andrii Nakryiko wrote:
> >
> > On Tue, Jun 25, 2024 at 7:51 AM Oleg Nesterov <oleg@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > >
> > > Why?
> > >
> > > So far I don't understand this change. Quite possibly I missed something,
> > > but in this case the changelog should explain the problem more clearly.
> > >
> >
> > I just went off of "Called with mm->mmap_lock held for write." comment
> > in uprobe_write_opcode(), tbh.
>
> Ah, indeed... and git blame makes me sad ;)
>
> I _think_ that 29dedee0e693a updated this comment without any thinking,
> but today I can't recall. In any case, today this nothing to do with
> mem_cgroup_charge(). Not sure __replace_page() is correct (in this respect)
> when it returns -EAGAIN but this is another story.
>
> > If we don't actually need writer
> > mmap_lock, we should probably update at least that comment.
>
> Agreed.

Ok, I'll drop this change and will just update the comment.

>
> > There is a
> > lot going on in uprobe_write_opcode(), and I don't understand all the
> > requirements there.
>
> Heh. Neither me today ;)
>
> Oleg.
>





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