Anders reported that the lockdep warns that suspicious RCU list usage in register_kprobe() (detected by CONFIG_PROVE_RCU_LIST.) This is because get_kprobe() access kprobe_table[] by hlist_for_each_entry_rcu() without rcu_read_lock.
If we call get_kprobe() from the breakpoint handler context, it is run with preempt disabled, so this is not a problem. But in other cases, instead of rcu_read_lock(), we locks kprobe_mutex so that the kprobe_table[] is not updated. So, current code is safe, but still not good from the view point of RCU. Joel suggested that we can silent that warning by passing lockdep_is_held() to the last argument of hlist_for_each_entry_rcu(). Add lockdep_is_held(&kprobe_mutex) at the end of the hlist_for_each_entry_rcu() to suppress the warning. Reported-by: Anders Roxell <anders.rox...@linaro.org> Suggested-by: Joel Fernandes <j...@joelfernandes.org> Signed-off-by: Masami Hiramatsu <mhira...@kernel.org> Reviewed-by: Joel Fernandes (Google) <j...@joelfernandes.org> --- kernel/kprobes.c | 3 ++- 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/kernel/kprobes.c b/kernel/kprobes.c index 2625c241ac00..bd484392d789 100644 --- a/kernel/kprobes.c +++ b/kernel/kprobes.c @@ -326,7 +326,8 @@ struct kprobe *get_kprobe(void *addr) struct kprobe *p; head = &kprobe_table[hash_ptr(addr, KPROBE_HASH_BITS)]; - hlist_for_each_entry_rcu(p, head, hlist) { + hlist_for_each_entry_rcu(p, head, hlist, + lockdep_is_held(&kprobe_mutex)) { if (p->addr == addr) return p; }