hw-breakpoints: Modify breakpoints without unregistering them

Currently, when ptrace needs to modify a breakpoint, like disabling
it, changing its address, type or len, it calls
modify_user_hw_breakpoint(). This latter will perform the heavy and
racy task of unregistering the old breakpoint and registering a new
one.

This is racy as someone else might steal the reserved breakpoint
slot under us, which is undesired as the breakpoint is only
supposed to be modified, sometimes in the middle of a debugging
workflow. We don't want our slot to be stolen in the middle.

So instead of unregistering/registering the breakpoint, just
disable it while we modify its breakpoint fields and re-enable it
after if necessary.

Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Prasad <prasad@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
LKML-Reference: <1260347148-5519-1-git-send-regression-fweisbec@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>

1 files changed, 2 insertions, 2 deletions

diff --git a/kernel/perf_event.c b/kernel/perf_event.c
index fd43ff4ac860..3b0cf86eee84 100644
--- a/kernel/perf_event.c
+++ b/kernel/perf_event.c
@@ -567,7 +567,7 @@ static void __perf_event_disable(void *info)
  * is the current context on this CPU and preemption is disabled,
  * hence we can't get into perf_event_task_sched_out for this context.
  */
-static void perf_event_disable(struct perf_event *event)
+void perf_event_disable(struct perf_event *event)
 {
 	struct perf_event_context *ctx = event->ctx;
 	struct task_struct *task = ctx->task;
@@ -971,7 +971,7 @@ static void __perf_event_enable(void *info)
  * perf_event_for_each_child or perf_event_for_each as described
  * for perf_event_disable.
  */
-static void perf_event_enable(struct perf_event *event)
+void perf_event_enable(struct perf_event *event)
 {
 	struct perf_event_context *ctx = event->ctx;
 	struct task_struct *task = ctx->task;