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I encountered some occasional crashes of poke_int3_handler() when
kprobes are set, while accessing desc->vec.
The text poke mechanism claims to have an RCU-like behavior, but it
does not appear that there is any quiescent state to ensure that
nobody holds reference to desc. As a result, the following race
appears to be possible, which can lead to memory corruption.
CPU0 CPU1
---- ----
text_poke_bp_batch()
-> smp_store_release(&bp_desc, &desc)
[ notice that desc is on
the stack ]
poke_int3_handler()
[ int3 might be kprobe's
so sync events are do not
help ]
-> try_get_desc(descp=&bp_desc)
desc = __READ_ONCE(bp_desc)
if (!desc) [false, success]
WRITE_ONCE(bp_desc, NULL);
atomic_dec_and_test(&desc.refs)
[ success, desc space on the stack
is being reused and might have
non-zero value. ]
arch_atomic_inc_not_zero(&desc->refs)
[ might succeed since desc points to
stack memory that was freed and might
be reused. ]
Fix this issue with small backportable patch. Instead of trying to
make RCU-like behavior for bp_desc, just eliminate the unnecessary
level of indirection of bp_desc, and hold the whole descriptor as a
global. Anyhow, there is only a single descriptor at any given
moment.
Fixes:
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