Patch "powerpc/kprobes: Disable preemption before invoking probe handler for optprobes" has been added to the 4.14-stable tree

This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled

powerpc/kprobes: Disable preemption before invoking probe handler for optprobes

to the 4.14-stable tree which can be found at:
http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/stable/stable-queue.git;a=summary

The filename of the patch is:
powerpc-kprobes-disable-preemption-before-invoking-probe-handler-for-optprobes.patch
and it can be found in the queue-4.14 subdirectory.

If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree, please let <[email protected]> know about it.

From: "Naveen N. Rao" <[email protected]>
Date: Mon, 23 Oct 2017 22:07:38 +0530
Subject: powerpc/kprobes: Disable preemption before invoking probe handler for optprobes

From: Naveen N. Rao <[email protected]>

commit 8a2d71a3f2737e2448aa68de2b6052cb570d3d2a upstream.

Per Documentation/kprobes.txt, probe handlers need to be invoked with preemption disabled. Update optimized_callback() to do so. Also move get_kprobe_ctlblk() invocation post preemption disable, since it accesses pre-cpu data.

This was not an issue so far since optprobes wasn't selected if CONFIG_PREEMPT was enabled. Commit a30b85df7d599f ("kprobes: Use synchronize_rcu_tasks() for optprobe with CONFIG_PREEMPT=y") changes this.

---
 arch/powerpc/kernel/optprobes.c |    5 +++--
 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

@@ -115,7 +115,6 @@ static unsigned long can_optimize(struct
 static void optimized_callback(struct optimized_kprobe *op,
 			       struct pt_regs *regs)
 {
-	struct kprobe_ctlblk *kcb = get_kprobe_ctlblk();
 	unsigned long flags;
 
 	/* This is possible if op is under delayed unoptimizing */

@@ -124,13 +123,14 @@ static void optimized_callback(struct op
 
 	local_irq_save(flags);
 	hard_irq_disable();
+	preempt_disable();
 
 	if (kprobe_running()) {
 		kprobes_inc_nmissed_count(&op->kp);
 	} else {
 		__this_cpu_write(current_kprobe, &op->kp);
 		regs->nip = (unsigned long)op->kp.addr;
-		kcb->kprobe_status = KPROBE_HIT_ACTIVE;
+		get_kprobe_ctlblk()->kprobe_status = KPROBE_HIT_ACTIVE;
 		opt_pre_handler(&op->kp, regs);
 		__this_cpu_write(current_kprobe, NULL);
 	}

@@ -140,6 +140,7 @@ static void optimized_callback(struct op
 	 * local_irq_restore() will re-enable interrupts,
 	 * if they were hard disabled.
 	 */
+	preempt_enable_no_resched();
 	local_irq_restore(flags);
 }
 NOKPROBE_SYMBOL(optimized_callback);

Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from [email protected] are

queue-4.14/kprobes-use-synchronize_rcu_tasks-for-optprobe-with-config_preempt-y.patch queue-4.14/powerpc-kprobes-disable-preemption-before-invoking-probe-handler-for-optprobes.patch queue-4.14/powerpc-jprobes-disable-preemption-when-triggered-through-ftrace.patch