Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1756788Ab1FPMBg (ORCPT ); Thu, 16 Jun 2011 08:01:36 -0400 Received: from casper.infradead.org ([85.118.1.10]:33065 "EHLO casper.infradead.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1755962Ab1FPMBf convert rfc822-to-8bit (ORCPT ); Thu, 16 Jun 2011 08:01:35 -0400 Subject: Re: [PATCH v4 3.0-rc2-tip 7/22] 7: uprobes: mmap and fork hooks. From: Peter Zijlstra To: Srikar Dronamraju Cc: Ingo Molnar , Steven Rostedt , Linux-mm , Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo , Linus Torvalds , Andi Kleen , Hugh Dickins , Christoph Hellwig , Jonathan Corbet , Thomas Gleixner , Masami Hiramatsu , Oleg Nesterov , LKML , Jim Keniston , Roland McGrath , Ananth N Mavinakayanahalli , Andrew Morton In-Reply-To: <20110616032645.GF4952@linux.vnet.ibm.com> References: <20110607125804.28590.92092.sendpatchset@localhost6.localdomain6> <20110607125931.28590.12362.sendpatchset@localhost6.localdomain6> <1308161486.2171.61.camel@laptop> <20110616032645.GF4952@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8BIT Date: Thu, 16 Jun 2011 14:00:26 +0200 Message-ID: <1308225626.13240.34.camel@twins> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Evolution 2.30.3 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 2497 Lines: 60 On Thu, 2011-06-16 at 08:56 +0530, Srikar Dronamraju wrote: > * Peter Zijlstra [2011-06-15 20:11:26]: > > > On Tue, 2011-06-07 at 18:29 +0530, Srikar Dronamraju wrote: > > > + up_write(&mm->mmap_sem); > > > + mutex_lock(&uprobes_mutex); > > > + down_read(&mm->mmap_sem); > > > > egads, and all that without a comment explaining why you think that is > > even remotely sane. > > > > I'm not at all convinced, it would expose the mmap() even though you > > could still decide to tear it down if this function were to fail, I bet > > there's some funnies there. > > The problem is with lock ordering. register/unregister operations > acquire uprobes_mutex (which serializes register unregister and the > mmap_hook) and then holds mmap_sem for read before they insert a > breakpoint. > > But the mmap hook would be called with mmap_sem held for write. So > acquiring uprobes_mutex can result in deadlock. Hence we release the > mmap_sem, take the uprobes_mutex and then again hold the mmap_sem. Sure, I saw why you wanted to do it, I'm just not quite convinced its safe to do and something like this definitely wants a comment explaining why its safe to drop mmap_sem. > After we re-acquire the mmap_sem, we do check if the vma is valid. But you don't on the return path, and if !ret mmap_region():unmap_and_free_vma will be touching vma again to remove it. > Do we have better solutions? /me kicks the brain into gear and walks off to get a fresh cup of tea. So the reason we take uprobes_mutex there is to avoid probes from going away while you're installing them, right? So we start by doing this add_to_temp_list() thing (horrid name), which iterates the probes on this inode under uprobes_treelock and adds them to a list. Then we iterate the list, installing the probles. How about we make the initial pass under uprobes_treelock take a references on the probe, and then after install_breakpoint() succeeds we again take uprobes_treelock and validate the uprobe still exists in the tree and drop the extra reference, if not we simply remove the breakpoint again and continue like it never existed. That should avoid the need to take uprobes_mutex and not require dropping mmap_sem, right? -- 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/