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SubjectRe: [PATCH 3/2] perf/hw_breakpoint: Remove superfluous bp->attr.disabled = 0 new attr has disabled set
On 08/07, Jiri Olsa wrote:
>
> On Mon, Aug 06, 2018 at 06:34:36PM +0200, Oleg Nesterov wrote:
> > > --- a/kernel/events/hw_breakpoint.c
> > > +++ b/kernel/events/hw_breakpoint.c
> > > @@ -526,10 +526,9 @@ int modify_user_hw_breakpoint(struct perf_event *bp, struct perf_event_attr *att
> > > if (err)
> > > return err;
> > >
> > > - if (!attr->disabled) {
> > > + if (!attr->disabled)
> > > perf_event_enable(bp);
> > > - bp->attr.disabled = 0;
> > > - }
> > > +
> >
> > Yes, but again, this still looks confusing.
> >
> > IMO, we should either remove "bp->attr.disabled = attr->disabled" in
> > modify_user_hw_breakpoint_check() because bp->attr.disabled is not really
> > used, or we should set bp->attr.disabled = 1 on failure just for consistency.
> >
> >
> > Hmm... actually ptrace_get_dr7() checks ->attr.disabled, so we can hit
> > WARN_ON(second_pass) in ptrace_write_dr7() in case when attr.disabled is
> > falsely 0 because modify_user_hw_breakpoint_check() failed before?
>
> hum, I can't see how modify_user_hw_breakpoint_check could falsely set disabled
> new attr stuff is copied once all checks passed

Hmm. So modify_user_hw_breakpoint() does perf_event_disable(bp) first and afaics
this doesn't set bp->attr.disabled = 1.

If modify_user_hw_breakpoint_check() fails after that we do not update bp->attr,
so bp->attr.disabled is still zero while this bp is actually disabled.

Again, afaics the core perf code doesn't actually use bp->attr.disabled after
perf_event__state_init(). But this can confuse ptrace_write_dr7/ptrace_get_dr7.

No?

I am on Linus's tree, but I see the same logic in
https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip.git/tree/kernel/events/hw_breakpoint.c?h=perf/core

Oleg.

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