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Diffstat (limited to 'kernel')
| -rw-r--r-- | kernel/trace/trace_events_user.c | 23 |
1 files changed, 22 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/kernel/trace/trace_events_user.c b/kernel/trace/trace_events_user.c index 238c7a0615fa..dbb14705d0d3 100644 --- a/kernel/trace/trace_events_user.c +++ b/kernel/trace/trace_events_user.c @@ -451,12 +451,25 @@ static bool user_event_enabler_exists(struct user_event_mm *mm, static void user_event_enabler_update(struct user_event *user) { struct user_event_enabler *enabler; - struct user_event_mm *mm = user_event_mm_get_all(user); struct user_event_mm *next; + struct user_event_mm *mm; int attempt; lockdep_assert_held(&event_mutex); + /* + * We need to build a one-shot list of all the mms that have an + * enabler for the user_event passed in. This list is only valid + * while holding the event_mutex. The only reason for this is due + * to the global mm list being RCU protected and we use methods + * which can wait (mmap_read_lock and pin_user_pages_remote). + * + * NOTE: user_event_mm_get_all() increments the ref count of each + * mm that is added to the list to prevent removal timing windows. + * We must always put each mm after they are used, which may wait. + */ + mm = user_event_mm_get_all(user); + while (mm) { next = mm->next; mmap_read_lock(mm->mm); @@ -516,6 +529,14 @@ static struct user_event_mm *user_event_mm_get_all(struct user_event *user) struct user_event_mm *mm; /* + * We use the mm->next field to build a one-shot list from the global + * RCU protected list. To build this list the event_mutex must be held. + * This lets us build a list without requiring allocs that could fail + * when user based events are most wanted for diagnostics. + */ + lockdep_assert_held(&event_mutex); + + /* * We do not want to block fork/exec while enablements are being * updated, so we use RCU to walk the current tasks that have used * user_events ABI for 1 or more events. Each enabler found in each |