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Subject[PATCH 5.9 003/105] kprobes: Remove NMI context check
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From: Masami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@kernel.org>

commit e03b4a084ea6b0a18b0e874baec439e69090c168 upstream.

The in_nmi() check in pre_handler_kretprobe() is meant to avoid
recursion, and blindly assumes that anything NMI is recursive.

However, since commit:

9b38cc704e84 ("kretprobe: Prevent triggering kretprobe from within kprobe_flush_task")

there is a better way to detect and avoid actual recursion.

By setting a dummy kprobe, any actual exceptions will terminate early
(by trying to handle the dummy kprobe), and recursion will not happen.

Employ this to avoid the kretprobe_table_lock() recursion, replacing
the over-eager in_nmi() check.

Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org # 5.9.x
Signed-off-by: Masami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/159870615628.1229682.6087311596892125907.stgit@devnote2
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
---
kernel/kprobes.c | 16 ++++------------
1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 12 deletions(-)

--- a/kernel/kprobes.c
+++ b/kernel/kprobes.c
@@ -1359,7 +1359,8 @@ static void cleanup_rp_inst(struct kretp
struct hlist_node *next;
struct hlist_head *head;

- /* No race here */
+ /* To avoid recursive kretprobe by NMI, set kprobe busy here */
+ kprobe_busy_begin();
for (hash = 0; hash < KPROBE_TABLE_SIZE; hash++) {
kretprobe_table_lock(hash, &flags);
head = &kretprobe_inst_table[hash];
@@ -1369,6 +1370,8 @@ static void cleanup_rp_inst(struct kretp
}
kretprobe_table_unlock(hash, &flags);
}
+ kprobe_busy_end();
+
free_rp_inst(rp);
}
NOKPROBE_SYMBOL(cleanup_rp_inst);
@@ -1937,17 +1940,6 @@ static int pre_handler_kretprobe(struct
unsigned long hash, flags = 0;
struct kretprobe_instance *ri;

- /*
- * To avoid deadlocks, prohibit return probing in NMI contexts,
- * just skip the probe and increase the (inexact) 'nmissed'
- * statistical counter, so that the user is informed that
- * something happened:
- */
- if (unlikely(in_nmi())) {
- rp->nmissed++;
- return 0;
- }
-
/* TODO: consider to only swap the RA after the last pre_handler fired */
hash = hash_ptr(current, KPROBE_HASH_BITS);
raw_spin_lock_irqsave(&rp->lock, flags);

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