On Wed, 17 May 2023 09:54:53 +0800
Ze Gao <zegao2021@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Oops, I misunderstood your comments before.
>
> Yes, it's not necessary to do this reordering as regards to kprobe.
Let me confirm, I meant that your current patch is correct. I just mentioned
that kprobe_busy_{begin,end} will continue use standard version because
kprobe itself handles that. Please update only the patch description and
add my ack.
Acked-by: Masami Hiramatsu (Google) <mhiramat@xxxxxxxxxx>
If you add Steve's call graph for the explanation, it will help us to
understand what will be fixed.
Thank you,
>
> Thanks for your review.
>
> I'll rebase onto the latest tree and send v3 ASAP.
>
> Regards,
> Ze
>
> On Wed, May 17, 2023 at 12:03 AM Masami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> >
> > On Tue, 16 May 2023 17:47:52 +0800
> > Ze Gao <zegao2021@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> >
> > > Precisely, these that are called within kprobe_busy_{begin, end},
> > > which the previous patch does not resolve.
> >
> > Note that kprobe_busy_{begin,end} don't need to use notrace version
> > because kprobe itself prohibits probing on preempt_count_{add,sub}.
> >
> > Thank you,
> >
> > > I will refine the commit message to make it clear.
> > >
> > > FYI, details can checked out here:
> > > Link: https://lore.kernel.org/linux-trace-kernel/20230516132516.c902edcf21028874a74fb868@xxxxxxxxxx/
> > >
> > > Regards,
> > > Ze
> > >
> > > On Tue, May 16, 2023 at 5:18 PM Peter Zijlstra <peterz@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > > >
> > > > On Tue, May 16, 2023 at 03:18:28PM +0800, Ze Gao wrote:
> > > > > Current implementation calls kprobe related functions before doing
> > > > > ftrace recursion check in fprobe_kprobe_handler, which opens door
> > > > > to kernel crash due to stack recursion if preempt_count_{add, sub}
> > > > > is traceable.
> > > >
> > > > Which preempt_count*() are you referring to? The ones you just made
> > > > _notrace in the previous patch?
> >
> >
> > --
> > Masami Hiramatsu (Google) <mhiramat@xxxxxxxxxx>
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