On Thu, Jul 11, 2024 at 05:00:54PM +0200, Peter Zijlstra wrote:

> Let me ponder that a little, I *can* make it work, but all 'solutions'
> I've come up with so far are really rather vile.

This is the least horrible solution I could come up with...

---
--- a/include/linux/uprobes.h
+++ b/include/linux/uprobes.h
@@ -83,6 +83,7 @@ struct uprobe_task {
 
        struct timer_list               ri_timer;
        struct callback_head            ri_task_work;
+       bool                            ri_work_pending;
        struct task_struct              *task;
 };
 
--- a/kernel/events/uprobes.c
+++ b/kernel/events/uprobes.c
@@ -1797,9 +1797,8 @@ void uprobe_free_utask(struct task_struc
        t->utask = NULL;
 }
 
-static void return_instance_task_work(struct callback_head *head)
+static void __return_instance_put(struct uprobe_task *utask)
 {
-       struct uprobe_task *utask = container_of(head, struct uprobe_task, 
ri_task_work);
        struct return_instance *ri;
 
        for (ri = utask->return_instances; ri; ri = ri->next) {
@@ -1815,9 +1814,43 @@ static void return_instance_task_work(st
        }
 }
 
+static void return_instance_task_work(struct callback_head *head)
+{
+       struct uprobe_task *utask = container_of(head, struct uprobe_task, 
ri_task_work);
+       utask->ri_work_pending = false;
+       __return_instance_put(utask);
+}
+
+static int return_instance_blocked(struct task_struct *p, void *arg)
+{
+       unsigned int state = READ_ONCE(p->__state);
+
+       if (state == TASK_RUNNING || state == TASK_WAKING)
+               return 0;
+
+       smp_rmb();
+       if (p->on_rq)
+               return 0;
+
+       /*
+        * Per __task_needs_rq_locked() we now have: !p->on_cpu and only hold
+        * p->pi_lock, and can consiter the task fully blocked.
+        */
+
+       __return_instance_put(p->utask);
+       return 1;
+}
+
 static void return_instance_timer(struct timer_list *timer)
 {
        struct uprobe_task *utask = container_of(timer, struct uprobe_task, 
ri_timer);
+       if (utask->ri_work_pending)
+               return;
+
+       if (task_call_func(utask->task, return_instance_blocked, NULL))
+               return;
+
+       utask->ri_work_pending = true;
        task_work_add(utask->task, &utask->ri_task_work, TWA_SIGNAL);
 }
 

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