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| author | Steven Rostedt (VMware) <rostedt@goodmis.org> | 2020-02-05 09:20:32 -0500 |
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| committer | Steven Rostedt (VMware) <rostedt@goodmis.org> | 2020-02-05 17:16:42 -0500 |
| commit | 54a16ff6f2e50775145b210bcd94d62c3c2af117 (patch) | |
| tree | 9fcea20433e1f5c27406e9a793e6bd4d090dd03c /kernel | |
| parent | 16052dd5bdfa16dbe18d8c1d4cde2ddab9d23177 (diff) | |
ftrace: Protect ftrace_graph_hash with ftrace_sync
As function_graph tracer can run when RCU is not "watching", it can not be
protected by synchronize_rcu() it requires running a task on each CPU before
it can be freed. Calling schedule_on_each_cpu(ftrace_sync) needs to be used.
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20200205131110.GT2935@paulmck-ThinkPad-P72
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Fixes: b9b0c831bed26 ("ftrace: Convert graph filter to use hash tables")
Reported-by: "Paul E. McKenney" <paulmck@kernel.org>
Reviewed-by: Joel Fernandes (Google) <joel@joelfernandes.org>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (VMware) <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'kernel')
| -rw-r--r-- | kernel/trace/ftrace.c | 11 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | kernel/trace/trace.h | 2 |
2 files changed, 11 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/kernel/trace/ftrace.c b/kernel/trace/ftrace.c index 481ede3eac13..3f7ee102868a 100644 --- a/kernel/trace/ftrace.c +++ b/kernel/trace/ftrace.c @@ -5867,8 +5867,15 @@ ftrace_graph_release(struct inode *inode, struct file *file) mutex_unlock(&graph_lock); - /* Wait till all users are no longer using the old hash */ - synchronize_rcu(); + /* + * We need to do a hard force of sched synchronization. + * This is because we use preempt_disable() to do RCU, but + * the function tracers can be called where RCU is not watching + * (like before user_exit()). We can not rely on the RCU + * infrastructure to do the synchronization, thus we must do it + * ourselves. + */ + schedule_on_each_cpu(ftrace_sync); free_ftrace_hash(old_hash); } diff --git a/kernel/trace/trace.h b/kernel/trace/trace.h index 8c52f5de9384..3c75d29bd861 100644 --- a/kernel/trace/trace.h +++ b/kernel/trace/trace.h @@ -979,6 +979,7 @@ static inline int ftrace_graph_addr(struct ftrace_graph_ent *trace) * Have to open code "rcu_dereference_sched()" because the * function graph tracer can be called when RCU is not * "watching". + * Protected with schedule_on_each_cpu(ftrace_sync) */ hash = rcu_dereference_protected(ftrace_graph_hash, !preemptible()); @@ -1031,6 +1032,7 @@ static inline int ftrace_graph_notrace_addr(unsigned long addr) * Have to open code "rcu_dereference_sched()" because the * function graph tracer can be called when RCU is not * "watching". + * Protected with schedule_on_each_cpu(ftrace_sync) */ notrace_hash = rcu_dereference_protected(ftrace_graph_notrace_hash, !preemptible()); |