With handle_swbp() hitting concurrently on (all) CPUs the uprobe->register_rwsem can get very contended. Add an SRCU instance to cover the consumer list and consumer lifetime.
Since the consumer are externally embedded structures, unregister will have to suffer a synchronize_srcu(). A notably complication is the UPROBE_HANDLER_REMOVE logic which can race against uprobe_register() such that it might want to remove a freshly installer handler that didn't get called. In order to close this hole, a seqcount is added. With that, the removal path can tell if anything changed and bail out of the removal. Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <pet...@infradead.org> --- kernel/events/uprobes.c | 60 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++-------- 1 file changed, 50 insertions(+), 10 deletions(-) --- a/kernel/events/uprobes.c +++ b/kernel/events/uprobes.c @@ -26,6 +26,7 @@ #include <linux/task_work.h> #include <linux/shmem_fs.h> #include <linux/khugepaged.h> +#include <linux/srcu.h> #include <linux/uprobes.h> @@ -49,6 +50,11 @@ static struct mutex uprobes_mmap_mutex[U DEFINE_STATIC_PERCPU_RWSEM(dup_mmap_sem); +/* + * Covers uprobe->consumers lifetime. + */ +DEFINE_STATIC_SRCU(uprobes_srcu); + /* Have a copy of original instruction */ #define UPROBE_COPY_INSN 0 @@ -57,6 +63,7 @@ struct uprobe { refcount_t ref; struct rcu_head rcu; struct rw_semaphore register_rwsem; + seqcount_t register_seq; struct rw_semaphore consumer_rwsem; struct list_head pending_list; struct uprobe_consumer *consumers; @@ -760,6 +767,7 @@ static struct uprobe *alloc_uprobe(struc uprobe->offset = offset; uprobe->ref_ctr_offset = ref_ctr_offset; init_rwsem(&uprobe->register_rwsem); + seqcount_init(&uprobe->register_seq); init_rwsem(&uprobe->consumer_rwsem); /* add to uprobes_tree, sorted on inode:offset */ @@ -782,8 +790,8 @@ static struct uprobe *alloc_uprobe(struc static void consumer_add(struct uprobe *uprobe, struct uprobe_consumer *uc) { down_write(&uprobe->consumer_rwsem); - uc->next = uprobe->consumers; - uprobe->consumers = uc; + WRITE_ONCE(uc->next, uprobe->consumers); + rcu_assign_pointer(uprobe->consumers, uc); up_write(&uprobe->consumer_rwsem); } @@ -800,7 +808,7 @@ static bool consumer_del(struct uprobe * down_write(&uprobe->consumer_rwsem); for (con = &uprobe->consumers; *con; con = &(*con)->next) { if (*con == uc) { - *con = uc->next; + WRITE_ONCE(*con, uc->next); ret = true; break; } @@ -1139,9 +1147,13 @@ void uprobe_unregister(struct inode *ino return; down_write(&uprobe->register_rwsem); + raw_write_seqcount_begin(&uprobe->register_seq); __uprobe_unregister(uprobe, uc); + raw_write_seqcount_end(&uprobe->register_seq); up_write(&uprobe->register_rwsem); put_uprobe(uprobe); + + synchronize_srcu(&uprobes_srcu); } EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(uprobe_unregister); @@ -1204,10 +1216,12 @@ static int __uprobe_register(struct inod down_write(&uprobe->register_rwsem); ret = -EAGAIN; if (likely(uprobe_is_active(uprobe))) { + raw_write_seqcount_begin(&uprobe->register_seq); consumer_add(uprobe, uc); ret = register_for_each_vma(uprobe, uc); if (ret) __uprobe_unregister(uprobe, uc); + raw_write_seqcount_end(&uprobe->register_seq); } up_write(&uprobe->register_rwsem); put_uprobe(uprobe); @@ -1250,10 +1264,12 @@ int uprobe_apply(struct inode *inode, lo return ret; down_write(&uprobe->register_rwsem); + raw_write_seqcount_begin(&uprobe->register_seq); for (con = uprobe->consumers; con && con != uc ; con = con->next) ; if (con) ret = register_for_each_vma(uprobe, add ? uc : NULL); + raw_write_seqcount_end(&uprobe->register_seq); up_write(&uprobe->register_rwsem); put_uprobe(uprobe); @@ -2096,15 +2112,23 @@ static struct uprobe *find_active_uprobe return uprobe; } +#define for_each_consumer_rcu(pos, head) \ + for (pos = rcu_dereference_raw(head); pos; \ + pos = rcu_dereference_raw(pos->next)) + static void handler_chain(struct uprobe *uprobe, struct pt_regs *regs) { struct uprobe_consumer *uc; int remove = UPROBE_HANDLER_REMOVE; bool need_prep = false; /* prepare return uprobe, when needed */ bool had_handler = false; + unsigned int seq; - down_read(&uprobe->register_rwsem); - for (uc = uprobe->consumers; uc; uc = uc->next) { + guard(srcu)(&uprobes_srcu); + + seq = raw_read_seqcount_begin(&uprobe->register_seq); + + for_each_consumer_rcu(uc, uprobe->consumers) { int rc = 0; if (uc->handler) { @@ -2134,9 +2158,25 @@ static void handler_chain(struct uprobe if (need_prep && !remove) prepare_uretprobe(uprobe, regs); /* put bp at return */ - if (remove) + if (remove) { + /* + * Removing uprobes is a slow path, after all, the more probes + * you remove, the less probe hits you get. + * + * This needs to serialize against uprobe_register(), such that + * if the above RCU iteration missed a new handler that + * would've liked to keep the probe, we don't go uninstall the + * probe after it already ran register_for_each_vma(). + * + * The rwsem ensures exclusivity against uprobe_register() + * while the seqcount will avoid the removal if anything has + * changed since we started. + */ + guard(rwsem_read)(&uprobe->register_rwsem); + if (read_seqcount_retry(&uprobe->register_seq, seq)) + return; unapply_uprobe(uprobe, current->mm); - up_read(&uprobe->register_rwsem); + } } static void @@ -2145,12 +2185,12 @@ handle_uretprobe_chain(struct return_ins struct uprobe *uprobe = ri->uprobe; struct uprobe_consumer *uc; - down_read(&uprobe->register_rwsem); - for (uc = uprobe->consumers; uc; uc = uc->next) { + guard(srcu)(&uprobes_srcu); + + for_each_consumer_rcu(uc, uprobe->consumers) { if (uc->ret_handler) uc->ret_handler(uc, ri->func, regs); } - up_read(&uprobe->register_rwsem); } static struct return_instance *find_next_ret_chain(struct return_instance *ri)