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 2/2] uprobes: Hide unprepared uprobes from the breakpoint paths
Date: Fri, 18 Sep 2026 11:32:09 -0300 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20260918143209.709291-2-adrianox@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20260918143209.709291-1-adrianox@gmail.com>
find_uprobe_rcu() backs handle_swbp() and handle_syscall_uprobe(). Make
it skip a uprobe whose instruction has not been analyzed yet, so neither
path can use an uninitialized ->arch. An unprepared uprobe has no
breakpoint installed (install_breakpoint() prepares before set_swbp()),
so the trap path treats it as not registered yet. This also gives
handle_syscall_uprobe() the check it was missing.
Signed-off-by: Adriano Cordova <adrianox@gmail.com>
---
kernel/events/uprobes.c | 35 +++++++++++++++--------------------
1 file changed, 15 insertions(+), 20 deletions(-)
diff --git a/kernel/events/uprobes.c b/kernel/events/uprobes.c
index 686585539ebf..bdc05fdce0a0 100644
--- a/kernel/events/uprobes.c
+++ b/kernel/events/uprobes.c
@@ -924,8 +924,20 @@ static struct uprobe *find_uprobe_rcu(struct inode *inode, loff_t offset)
* try again as we might have missed the element (false
* negative). If seqcount is unchanged, search truly failed.
*/
- if (node)
- return __node_2_uprobe(node);
+ if (node) {
+ struct uprobe *uprobe = __node_2_uprobe(node);
+
+ /*
+ * A uprobe is inserted before it is prepared; do
+ * not hand it out until ->arch is usable.
+ */
+ if (!test_bit(UPROBE_COPY_INSN, &uprobe->flags))
+ return NULL;
+
+ /* Pairs with the smp_wmb() in prepare_uprobe(). */
+ smp_rmb();
+ return uprobe;
+ }
} while (read_seqcount_retry(&uprobes_seqcount, seq));
return NULL;
@@ -1123,7 +1135,7 @@ static int prepare_uprobe(struct uprobe *uprobe, struct file *file,
if (ret)
goto out;
- smp_wmb(); /* pairs with the smp_rmb() in handle_swbp() */
+ smp_wmb(); /* pairs with the smp_rmb() in find_uprobe_rcu() */
set_bit(UPROBE_COPY_INSN, &uprobe->flags);
out:
@@ -2743,23 +2755,6 @@ static void handle_swbp(struct pt_regs *regs)
/* change it in advance for ->handler() and restart */
instruction_pointer_set(regs, bp_vaddr);
- /*
- * TODO: move copy_insn/etc into _register and remove this hack.
- * After we hit the bp, _unregister + _register can install the
- * new and not-yet-analyzed uprobe at the same address, restart.
- */
- if (unlikely(!test_bit(UPROBE_COPY_INSN, &uprobe->flags)))
- goto out;
-
- /*
- * Pairs with the smp_wmb() in prepare_uprobe().
- *
- * Guarantees that if we see the UPROBE_COPY_INSN bit set, then
- * we must also see the stores to &uprobe->arch performed by the
- * prepare_uprobe() call.
- */
- smp_rmb();
-
/* Tracing handlers use ->utask to communicate with fetch methods */
if (!get_utask())
goto out;
--
2.51.0
prev parent reply other threads:[~2026-09-18 14:32 UTC|newest]
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2026-09-18 14:32 [PATCH 1/2] uprobes: Use a dedicated mutex to serialize prepare_uprobe() Adriano Cordova
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