kprobes, x86/alternatives: Use text_mutex to protect smp_alt_modules

We use alternatives_text_reserved() to check if the address is in
the fixed pieces of alternative reserved, but the problem is that
we don't hold the smp_alt mutex when call this function. So the list
traversal may encounter a deleted list_head if another path is doing
alternatives_smp_module_del().

One solution is that we can hold smp_alt mutex before call this
function, but the difficult point is that the callers of this
functions, arch_prepare_kprobe() and arch_prepare_optimized_kprobe(),
are called inside the text_mutex. So we must hold smp_alt mutex
before we go into these arch dependent code. But we can't now,
the smp_alt mutex is the arch dependent part, only x86 has it.
Maybe we can export another arch dependent callback to solve this.

But there is a simpler way to handle this problem. We can reuse the
text_mutex to protect smp_alt_modules instead of using another mutex.
And all the arch dependent checks of kprobes are inside the text_mutex,
so it's safe now.

Signed-off-by: Zhou Chengming <zhouchengming1@huawei.com>
Reviewed-by: Masami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@kernel.org>
Acked-by: Steven Rostedt (VMware) <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Cc: Andy Lutomirski <luto@kernel.org>
Cc: Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de>
Cc: Brian Gerst <brgerst@gmail.com>
Cc: Denys Vlasenko <dvlasenk@redhat.com>
Cc: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
Cc: Josh Poimboeuf <jpoimboe@redhat.com>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: bp@suse.de
Fixes: 2cfa197 "ftrace/alternatives: Introducing *_text_reserved functions"
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1509585501-79466-1-git-send-email-zhouchengming1@huawei.com
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>

1 files changed, 2 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/kernel/extable.c b/kernel/extable.c
index 9aa1cc41ecf7..a17fdb63dc3e 100644
--- a/kernel/extable.c
+++ b/kernel/extable.c
@@ -31,6 +31,8 @@
  * mutex protecting text section modification (dynamic code patching).
  * some users need to sleep (allocating memory...) while they hold this lock.
  *
+ * Note: Also protects SMP-alternatives modification on x86.
+ *
  * NOT exported to modules - patching kernel text is a really delicate matter.
  */
 DEFINE_MUTEX(text_mutex);