From: Adriano Cordova <adrianox@gmail.com>
To: Masami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@kernel.org>,
Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>,
Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: linux-trace-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com>,
Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@kernel.org>,
Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org>,
Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@arm.com>,
Alexander Shishkin <alexander.shishkin@linux.intel.com>,
Jiri Olsa <jolsa@kernel.org>, Ian Rogers <irogers@google.com>,
Adrian Hunter <adrian.hunter@intel.com>,
James Clark <james.clark@linaro.org>,
Adriano Cordova <adrianox@gmail.com>
Subject: [PATCH 1/2] uprobes: Use a dedicated mutex to serialize prepare_uprobe()
Date: Fri, 18 Sep 2026 11:32:08 -0300 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20260918143209.709291-1-adrianox@gmail.com> (raw)
prepare_uprobe() serializes its callers by taking consumer_rwsem for
writing. That rwsem protects the consumer list, not the instruction
copy.
Give struct uprobe a dedicated prepare_mutex and use it instead.
No functional change.
Signed-off-by: Adriano Cordova <adrianox@gmail.com>
---
kernel/events/uprobes.c | 8 +++++---
1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)
diff --git a/kernel/events/uprobes.c b/kernel/events/uprobes.c
index 7709ea882477..686585539ebf 100644
--- a/kernel/events/uprobes.c
+++ b/kernel/events/uprobes.c
@@ -64,6 +64,7 @@ struct uprobe {
refcount_t ref;
struct rw_semaphore register_rwsem;
struct rw_semaphore consumer_rwsem;
+ struct mutex prepare_mutex; /* serializes prepare_uprobe() */
struct list_head pending_list;
struct list_head consumers;
struct inode *inode; /* Also hold a ref to inode */
@@ -1007,6 +1008,7 @@ static struct uprobe *alloc_uprobe(struct inode *inode, loff_t offset,
INIT_LIST_HEAD(&uprobe->consumers);
init_rwsem(&uprobe->register_rwsem);
init_rwsem(&uprobe->consumer_rwsem);
+ mutex_init(&uprobe->prepare_mutex);
RB_CLEAR_NODE(&uprobe->rb_node);
refcount_set(&uprobe->ref, 1);
@@ -1104,8 +1106,8 @@ static int prepare_uprobe(struct uprobe *uprobe, struct file *file,
if (test_bit(UPROBE_COPY_INSN, &uprobe->flags))
return ret;
- /* TODO: move this into _register, until then we abuse this sem. */
- down_write(&uprobe->consumer_rwsem);
+ /* Serialize concurrent prepare_uprobe() calls from uprobe_mmap(). */
+ mutex_lock(&uprobe->prepare_mutex);
if (test_bit(UPROBE_COPY_INSN, &uprobe->flags))
goto out;
@@ -1125,7 +1127,7 @@ static int prepare_uprobe(struct uprobe *uprobe, struct file *file,
set_bit(UPROBE_COPY_INSN, &uprobe->flags);
out:
- up_write(&uprobe->consumer_rwsem);
+ mutex_unlock(&uprobe->prepare_mutex);
return ret;
}
--
2.51.0
next reply other threads:[~2026-09-18 14:32 UTC|newest]
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2026-09-18 14:32 Adriano Cordova [this message]
2026-09-18 14:32 ` [PATCH 2/2] uprobes: Hide unprepared uprobes from the breakpoint paths Adriano Cordova
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