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* [PATCH 1/2] uprobes: Use a dedicated mutex to serialize prepare_uprobe()
@ 2026-09-18 14:32 Adriano Cordova
  2026-09-18 14:32 ` [PATCH 2/2] uprobes: Hide unprepared uprobes from the breakpoint paths Adriano Cordova
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From: Adriano Cordova @ 2026-09-18 14:32 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: Masami Hiramatsu, Oleg Nesterov, Peter Zijlstra
  Cc: linux-trace-kernel, linux-kernel, Ingo Molnar,
	Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo, Namhyung Kim, Mark Rutland,
	Alexander Shishkin, Jiri Olsa, Ian Rogers, Adrian Hunter,
	James Clark, Adriano Cordova

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


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