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Avoid kretprobe recursion loop bg by setting a dummy kprobes to current_kprobe per-CPU variable. This bug has been introduced with the asm-coded trampoline code, since previously it used another kprobe for hooking the function return placeholder (which only has a nop) and trampoline handler was called from that kprobe. This revives the old lost kprobe again. With this fix, we don't see deadlock anymore. And you can see that all inner-called kretprobe are skipped. event_1 235 0 event_2 19375 19612 The 1st column is recorded count and the 2nd is missed count. Above shows (event_1 rec) + (event_2 rec) ~= (event_2 missed) (some difference are here because the counter is racy) Reported-by: Andrea Righi <righi.andrea@gmail.com> Tested-by: Andrea Righi <righi.andrea@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Masami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@kernel.org> Acked-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org> Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Mathieu Desnoyers <mathieu.desnoyers@efficios.com> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org Fixes: c9becf58d935 ("[PATCH] kretprobe: kretprobe-booster") Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/155094064889.6137.972160690963039.stgit@devbox Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Linux kernel
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There are several guides for kernel developers and users. These guides can
be rendered in a number of formats, like HTML and PDF. Please read
Documentation/admin-guide/README.rst first.
In order to build the documentation, use ``make htmldocs`` or
``make pdfdocs``. The formatted documentation can also be read online at:
https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/
There are various text files in the Documentation/ subdirectory,
several of them using the Restructured Text markup notation.
Please read the Documentation/process/changes.rst file, as it contains the
requirements for building and running the kernel, and information about
the problems which may result by upgrading your kernel.