Commit 899d5933 authored by William Cohen's avatar William Cohen Committed by Catalin Marinas

Correct the race condition in aarch64_insn_patch_text_sync()

When experimenting with patches to provide kprobes support for aarch64
smp machines would hang when inserting breakpoints into kernel code.
The hangs were caused by a race condition in the code called by
aarch64_insn_patch_text_sync().  The first processor in the
aarch64_insn_patch_text_cb() function would patch the code while other
processors were still entering the function and incrementing the
cpu_count field.  This resulted in some processors never observing the
exit condition and exiting the function.  Thus, processors in the
system hung.

The first processor to enter the patching function performs the
patching and signals that the patching is complete with an increment
of the cpu_count field. When all the processors have incremented the
cpu_count field the cpu_count will be num_cpus_online()+1 and they
will return to normal execution.

Fixes: ae164807 arm64: introduce interfaces to hotpatch kernel and module code
Signed-off-by: default avatarWilliam Cohen <wcohen@redhat.com>
Acked-by: default avatarWill Deacon <will.deacon@arm.com>
Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: default avatarCatalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com>
parent 97fc1543
......@@ -163,9 +163,10 @@ static int __kprobes aarch64_insn_patch_text_cb(void *arg)
* which ends with "dsb; isb" pair guaranteeing global
* visibility.
*/
atomic_set(&pp->cpu_count, -1);
/* Notify other processors with an additional increment. */
atomic_inc(&pp->cpu_count);
} else {
while (atomic_read(&pp->cpu_count) != -1)
while (atomic_read(&pp->cpu_count) <= num_online_cpus())
cpu_relax();
isb();
}
......
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