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From: "liaochang (A)" <liaochang1@huawei.com>
To: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Cc: <mingo@redhat.com>, <paul.walmsley@sifive.com>,
	<palmer@dabbelt.com>, <aou@eecs.berkeley.edu>,
	<linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>, <linux-riscv@lists.infradead.org>,
	Masami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] kprobes: Mark ftrace mcount handler functions nokprobe
Date: Tue, 27 Sep 2022 19:10:16 +0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <fd5a713e-39ea-4f59-7a89-178ccb79f0dc@huawei.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20220926143723.73032f8c@gandalf.local.home>



在 2022/9/27 2:37, Steven Rostedt 写道:
> On Mon, 19 Sep 2022 16:45:33 +0800
> Liao Chang <liaochang1@huawei.com> wrote:
> 
>> Mark ftrace mcount handler functions nokprobe since probing on these
>> functions probably reaches mcount recursivly during kprobe breakpoint
>> handler for some architecture(tested for riscv, arm64), and reenter
>> kprobe is treated as a fatal error, causes kernel panic.
> 
> This looks to me that the affected archs should be made more robust for this
> case than to add this to the generic code.

OK, i will fix this problem in arch related code, thanks for feedback.

> 
> -- Steve
> 
> 
>>
>> Pesudo code below demonstrate this problem:
>>
>>   mcount
>>     function_trace_call (probed)
>>       arch_breakpoint_handler
>>         arch_setup_singlestep [mcount]
>>           function_trace_call (probed)
>>             arch_breakpoint_handler
>>               reenter_kprobe
>>                 BUG
>>
>> Signed-off-by: Liao Chang <liaochang1@huawei.com>
>> ---
>>  kernel/trace/trace_functions.c | 5 +++++
>>  1 file changed, 5 insertions(+)
>>
>> diff --git a/kernel/trace/trace_functions.c b/kernel/trace/trace_functions.c
>> index 9f1bfbe105e8..440a678a8c7c 100644
>> --- a/kernel/trace/trace_functions.c
>> +++ b/kernel/trace/trace_functions.c
>> @@ -16,6 +16,7 @@
>>  #include <linux/ftrace.h>
>>  #include <linux/slab.h>
>>  #include <linux/fs.h>
>> +#include <linux/kprobes.h>
>>  
>>  #include "trace.h"
>>  
>> @@ -194,6 +195,7 @@ function_trace_call(unsigned long ip, unsigned long parent_ip,
>>  
>>  	ftrace_test_recursion_unlock(bit);
>>  }
>> +NOKPROBE_SYMBOL(function_trace_call);
>>  
>>  #ifdef CONFIG_UNWINDER_ORC
>>  /*
>> @@ -245,6 +247,7 @@ function_stack_trace_call(unsigned long ip, unsigned long parent_ip,
>>  	atomic_dec(&data->disabled);
>>  	local_irq_restore(flags);
>>  }
>> +NOKPROBE_SYMBOL(function_stack_trace_call);
>>  
>>  static inline bool is_repeat_check(struct trace_array *tr,
>>  				   struct trace_func_repeats *last_info,
>> @@ -321,6 +324,7 @@ function_no_repeats_trace_call(unsigned long ip, unsigned long parent_ip,
>>  out:
>>  	ftrace_test_recursion_unlock(bit);
>>  }
>> +NOKPROBE_SYMBOL(function_no_repeats_trace_call);
>>  
>>  static void
>>  function_stack_no_repeats_trace_call(unsigned long ip, unsigned long parent_ip,
>> @@ -363,6 +367,7 @@ function_stack_no_repeats_trace_call(unsigned long ip, unsigned long parent_ip,
>>  	atomic_dec(&data->disabled);
>>  	local_irq_restore(flags);
>>  }
>> +NOKPROBE_SYMBOL(function_stack_no_repeats_trace_call);
>>  
>>  static struct tracer_opt func_opts[] = {
>>  #ifdef CONFIG_STACKTRACE
> 
> 
> .

-- 
BR,
Liao, Chang

  reply	other threads:[~2022-09-27 11:11 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2022-09-19  8:45 Liao Chang
2022-09-26 18:37 ` Steven Rostedt
2022-09-27 11:10   ` liaochang (A) [this message]
2022-09-27 15:22   ` Masami Hiramatsu

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