On Wed, Jan 05, 2022 at 02:46:10PM -0600, Eric W. Biederman wrote: > Al Viro <viro@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes: > > > On Wed, Dec 08, 2021 at 02:25:24PM -0600, Eric W. Biederman wrote: > >> There are two big uses of do_exit. The first is it's design use to be > >> the guts of the exit(2) system call. The second use is to terminate > >> a task after something catastrophic has happened like a NULL pointer > >> in kernel code. > >> > >> Add a function make_task_dead that is initialy exactly the same as > >> do_exit to cover the cases where do_exit is called to handle > >> catastrophic failure. In time this can probably be reduced to just a > >> light wrapper around do_task_dead. For now keep it exactly the same so > >> that there will be no behavioral differences introducing this new > >> concept. > >> > >> Replace all of the uses of do_exit that use it for catastraphic > >> task cleanup with make_task_dead to make it clear what the code > >> is doing. > >> > >> As part of this rename rewind_stack_do_exit > >> rewind_stack_and_make_dead. > > > > Umm... What about .Linvalid_mask: in arch/xtensa/kernel/entry.S? > > That's an obvious case for your make_task_dead(). > > Good catch. > > Being in assembly it did not have anything after the name do_exit so it > hid from my regex "[^A-Za-z0-9_]do_exit[^A-Za-z0-9]". Thank you for > finding that. Umm... What's wrong with '\<do_exit\>'? Difference in catch: missed 6 Documentation/trace/kprobes.rst:596:do_exit() case covered. do_execve() and do_fork() are not an issue. arch/x86/entry/entry_32.S:1258: call do_exit arch/x86/entry/entry_64.S:1440: call do_exit arch/xtensa/kernel/entry.S:1436: abi_call do_exit samples/bpf/test_cgrp2_tc.sh:114:do_exit() { tools/testing/selftests/ftrace/test.d/kprobe/kprobe_multiprobe.tc:8:SYM2=do_exit extra 3 arch/powerpc/mm/book3s64/radix_tlb.c:815:static void do_exit_flush_lazy_tlb(void *arg) arch/powerpc/mm/book3s64/radix_tlb.c:830: smp_call_function_many(mm_cpumask(mm), do_exit_flush_lazy_tlb, tools/perf/ui/browsers/hists.c:2847: act->fn = do_exit_browser; Extra catch clearly contains nothing of interest (assuming it's not a result of a typo in your regex in the first place - you seem to have omitted _ from the second set, and if you add that back, these 3 hits go away). And missed 6... 3 are outside of the kernel source proper, and the rest are all genuine. You've caught x86 ones (inside the rewind_stack_do_exit variants) and missed the xtensa one... \< and \> are GNUisms, but both git grep and grep (both on Linux and FreeBSD, at least) handle them... Or use \bdo_exit\b, for that matter (Perlism instead of GNUism, matching both the beginnings and ends of words)...