Messages in this thread Patch in this message | | | Date | Wed, 3 Jul 2019 10:02:05 -0400 | From | Steven Rostedt <> | Subject | Re: [for-next][PATCH 12/16] kprobes: Initialize kprobes at postcore_initcall |
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On Tue, 2 Jul 2019 17:50:09 +0100 Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@arm.com> wrote:
> On Sun, May 26, 2019 at 03:18:40PM -0400, Steven Rostedt wrote: > > From: Masami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@kernel.org> > > > > Initialize kprobes at postcore_initcall level instead of module_init > > since kprobes is not a module, and it depends on only subsystems > > initialized in core_initcall. > > This will allow ftrace kprobe event to add new events when it is > > initializing because ftrace kprobe event is initialized at > > later initcall level. > > > > Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/155851394736.15728.13626739508905120098.stgit@devnote2 > > > > Signed-off-by: Masami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@kernel.org> > > Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (VMware) <rostedt@goodmis.org> > > --- > > kernel/kprobes.c | 3 +-- > > 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 2 deletions(-) > > > > diff --git a/kernel/kprobes.c b/kernel/kprobes.c > > index b1ea30a5540e..54aaaad00a47 100644 > > --- a/kernel/kprobes.c > > +++ b/kernel/kprobes.c > > @@ -2289,6 +2289,7 @@ static int __init init_kprobes(void) > > init_test_probes(); > > return err; > > } > > +postcore_initcall(init_kprobes); > > As a heads-up, this is causing boot-time failures on arm64.
Thanks for the report.
> > On arm64 kprobes depends on the BRK handler we register in > debug_traps_init(), which is an arch_initcall. > > As of this change, init_krprobes() calls init_test_probes() before > that's registered, so we end up hitting a BRK before we can handle it. >
Would something like this help?
-- Steve
diff --git a/kernel/kprobes.c b/kernel/kprobes.c index 5471efbeb937..0ca6f53c8505 100644 --- a/kernel/kprobes.c +++ b/kernel/kprobes.c @@ -2235,6 +2235,8 @@ static struct notifier_block kprobe_module_nb = { extern unsigned long __start_kprobe_blacklist[]; extern unsigned long __stop_kprobe_blacklist[]; +static bool run_kprobe_tests __initdata; + static int __init init_kprobes(void) { int i, err = 0; @@ -2286,11 +2288,18 @@ static int __init init_kprobes(void) kprobes_initialized = (err == 0); if (!err) - init_test_probes(); + run_kprobe_tests = true; return err; } subsys_initcall(init_kprobes); +static int __init run_init_test_probes(void) +{ + if (run_kprobe_tests) + init_test_probes(); +} +module_init(run_init_test_probes); + #ifdef CONFIG_DEBUG_FS static void report_probe(struct seq_file *pi, struct kprobe *p, const char *sym, int offset, char *modname, struct kprobe *pp)
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