Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1757168Ab3GVJ6E (ORCPT ); Mon, 22 Jul 2013 05:58:04 -0400 Received: from mail4.hitachi.co.jp ([133.145.228.5]:51664 "EHLO mail4.hitachi.co.jp" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1756094Ab3GVJ6B (ORCPT ); Mon, 22 Jul 2013 05:58:01 -0400 Message-ID: <51ED0227.6020204@hitachi.com> Date: Mon, 22 Jul 2013 18:57:59 +0900 From: Masami Hiramatsu Organization: Hitachi, Ltd., Japan User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 5.2; rv:13.0) Gecko/20120614 Thunderbird/13.0.1 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Oleg Nesterov Cc: Steven Rostedt , Peter Zijlstra , Frederic Weisbecker , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Ingo Molnar , Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo , Andrew Morton , jovi.zhangwei@huawei.com, Jiri Olsa , Srikar Dronamraju Subject: Re: [RFC PATCH V2] tracing: Check f_dentry before accessing event_file/call in inode->i_private References: <20130705003223.GA4981@redhat.com> <20130709075519.2583.96462.stgit@mhiramat-M0-7522> <20130715181659.GA18505@redhat.com> <51E5FD33.4040604@hitachi.com> <20130717145148.GB7358@redhat.com> <51E750F4.5070200@hitachi.com> <20130718145137.GA6014@redhat.com> <51E8CCC0.7030404@hitachi.com> <20130719133327.GA21278@redhat.com> In-Reply-To: <20130719133327.GA21278@redhat.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 2227 Lines: 67 (2013/07/19 22:33), Oleg Nesterov wrote: > On 07/19, Masami Hiramatsu wrote: >> >> (2013/07/18 23:51), Oleg Nesterov wrote: >>> It removes trace_array_get/put from tracing_open_generic_file() and >>> tracing_release_generic_file(). This assumes that "call->flags++" is >>> enough, but it is not. >> >> No, it replaces trace_array_get/put with ftrace_event_file_get/put >> which calls trace_array_get/put inside. > > Ah, I didn't notice your patch adds "file->tr->ref++" into > ftrace_event_file_get... > > So I was wrong in any case, thanks for correcting me. > > But, > >> (Just one point, previous ftrace_event_file_get has a racy point >> when it does tr->ref++, it should be fixed.) > > Not sure what do you mean, but unless I missed something again this > "tr->ref++" above still looks racy. instance_delete() checks tr->ref > first, then it takes event_mutex and removes/kfrees event_files. > > But this doesn't really matter even if I am right, surely this can > be fixed. My only point, imho this is more complex than necessary. I see, so I'd like to see the fix. However, I'm not sure we have enough time to fix that cleanly. Note that except for the timing bug, we still leave a kernel bug which can easily be reproduced as Jovi reported. > In particular, > >>> IOW, I believe that either .open() should do trace_array_get(), or >>> __trace_remove_event_dirs() needs another for-each-file loop which >>> checks file->call->flags & TRACE_EVENT_FL_REF_MASK. >> >> Agreed :) > > Yes ;) and this makes the ref-counting even more complex, we use > different methods to avoid the races with rmdir and event_remove(). > >>> The same bugs which Steven's 1/4 tries to solve ;) >> >> OK, let me confirm that, would you mean we still need 2/4 - 4/4? > > Yes, yes. And those are depends on 1/4... Thank you, -- Masami HIRAMATSU IT Management Research Dept. Linux Technology Center Hitachi, Ltd., Yokohama Research Laboratory E-mail: masami.hiramatsu.pt@hitachi.com -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/