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Diffstat (limited to 'kernel/events/uprobes.c')
| -rw-r--r-- | kernel/events/uprobes.c | 15 |
1 files changed, 13 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/kernel/events/uprobes.c b/kernel/events/uprobes.c index 615b4e6d22c7..8d783b5882b6 100644 --- a/kernel/events/uprobes.c +++ b/kernel/events/uprobes.c @@ -1956,6 +1956,9 @@ static void free_ret_instance(struct uprobe_task *utask, * to-be-reused return instances for future uretprobes. If ri_timer() * happens to be running right now, though, we fallback to safety and * just perform RCU-delated freeing of ri. + * Admittedly, this is a rather simple use of seqcount, but it nicely + * abstracts away all the necessary memory barriers, so we use + * a well-supported kernel primitive here. */ if (raw_seqcount_try_begin(&utask->ri_seqcount, seq)) { /* immediate reuse of ri without RCU GP is OK */ @@ -2016,12 +2019,20 @@ static void ri_timer(struct timer_list *timer) /* RCU protects return_instance from freeing. */ guard(rcu)(); - write_seqcount_begin(&utask->ri_seqcount); + /* + * See free_ret_instance() for notes on seqcount use. + * We also employ raw API variants to avoid lockdep false-positive + * warning complaining about enabled preemption. The timer can only be + * invoked once for a uprobe_task. Therefore there can only be one + * writer. The reader does not require an even sequence count to make + * progress, so it is OK to remain preemptible on PREEMPT_RT. + */ + raw_write_seqcount_begin(&utask->ri_seqcount); for_each_ret_instance_rcu(ri, utask->return_instances) hprobe_expire(&ri->hprobe, false); - write_seqcount_end(&utask->ri_seqcount); + raw_write_seqcount_end(&utask->ri_seqcount); } static struct uprobe_task *alloc_utask(void) |