On Sat, Aug 29, 2020 at 12:10:10AM +0900, Masami Hiramatsu wrote:
> On Fri, 28 Aug 2020 14:52:36 +0200
> [email protected] wrote:

> > >   synchronize_rcu();
> > 
> > This one might help, this means we can do rcu_read_lock() around
> > get_kretprobe() and it's usage. Can we call rp->handler() under RCU?
> 
> Yes, as I said above, the get_kretprobe() (and kretprobe handler) must be
> called under preempt-disabled.

Then we don't need the ordering; we'll need READ_ONCE() (or
rcu_derefernce()) to make sure the address dependency works on Alpha.
And a comment/assertion that explains this might not go amiss in
get_kretprobe().

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