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[RFCv3,07/23] uprobes: Remove breakpoint in unapply_uprobe under mmap_write_lock

Message ID 20250320114200.14377-8-jolsa@kernel.org (mailing list archive)
State RFC
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Series uprobes: Add support to optimize usdt probes on x86_64 | expand

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Jiri Olsa March 20, 2025, 11:41 a.m. UTC
Currently unapply_uprobe takes mmap_read_lock, but it might call
remove_breakpoint which eventually changes user pages.

Current code writes either breakpoint or original instruction,
so it probably go away with that, but with the upcoming changes
that use multiple instructions on the probed address we need to
ensure that any update to mm's pages is exclusive.

Signed-off-by: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@kernel.org>
---
 kernel/events/uprobes.c | 4 ++--
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
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diff --git a/kernel/events/uprobes.c b/kernel/events/uprobes.c
index 92fed5e50ec1..bd4bc62f80d7 100644
--- a/kernel/events/uprobes.c
+++ b/kernel/events/uprobes.c
@@ -1465,7 +1465,7 @@  static int unapply_uprobe(struct uprobe *uprobe, struct mm_struct *mm)
 	struct vm_area_struct *vma;
 	int err = 0;
 
-	mmap_read_lock(mm);
+	mmap_write_lock(mm);
 	for_each_vma(vmi, vma) {
 		unsigned long vaddr;
 		loff_t offset;
@@ -1482,7 +1482,7 @@  static int unapply_uprobe(struct uprobe *uprobe, struct mm_struct *mm)
 		vaddr = offset_to_vaddr(vma, uprobe->offset);
 		err |= remove_breakpoint(uprobe, mm, vaddr);
 	}
-	mmap_read_unlock(mm);
+	mmap_write_unlock(mm);
 
 	return err;
 }