Re: [PATCH v2 15/15] kprobes: Free kretprobe_instance with rcu callback

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On Thu, 27 Aug 2020 13:48:07 +0200
peterz@xxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:

> On Thu, Aug 27, 2020 at 08:37:49PM +0900, Masami Hiramatsu wrote:
> > Free kretprobe_instance with rcu callback instead of directly
> > freeing the object in the kretprobe handler context.
> > 
> > This will make kretprobe run safer in NMI context.
> > 
> > Signed-off-by: Masami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@xxxxxxxxxx>
> > ---
> >  include/linux/kprobes.h |    3 ++-
> >  kernel/kprobes.c        |   25 ++++++-------------------
> >  2 files changed, 8 insertions(+), 20 deletions(-)
> > 
> > diff --git a/include/linux/kprobes.h b/include/linux/kprobes.h
> > index 46a7afcf5ec0..97557f820d9b 100644
> > --- a/include/linux/kprobes.h
> > +++ b/include/linux/kprobes.h
> > @@ -160,6 +160,7 @@ struct kretprobe_instance {
> >  	struct kretprobe *rp;
> >  	kprobe_opcode_t *ret_addr;
> >  	struct task_struct *task;
> > +	struct rcu_head rcu;
> >  	void *fp;
> >  	char data[];
> >  };
> 
> You can stick the rcu_head in a union with hlist.

Indeed. OK, I'll update it.

Thank you!


-- 
Masami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@xxxxxxxxxx>



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