[PATCH 1/7] uprobes/x86: Only rep+nop can be emulated correctly

From: Oleg Nesterov
Date: Sun Sep 30 2012 - 15:42:06 EST


__skip_sstep() correctly detects the "nontrivial" nop insns,
but since it doesn't update regs->ip we can not really skip
"0x0f 0x1f | 0x0f 0x19 | 0x87 0xc0", the probed application
is killed by SIGILL'ed handle_swbp().

Remove these additional checks. If we want to implement this
correctly we need to know the full insn length to update ->ip.

rep* + nop is fine even without updating ->ip.

Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@xxxxxxxxxx>
---
arch/x86/kernel/uprobes.c | 16 ++--------------
1 files changed, 2 insertions(+), 14 deletions(-)

diff --git a/arch/x86/kernel/uprobes.c b/arch/x86/kernel/uprobes.c
index 9538f00..aafa555 100644
--- a/arch/x86/kernel/uprobes.c
+++ b/arch/x86/kernel/uprobes.c
@@ -651,31 +651,19 @@ void arch_uprobe_abort_xol(struct arch_uprobe *auprobe, struct pt_regs *regs)

/*
* Skip these instructions as per the currently known x86 ISA.
- * 0x66* { 0x90 | 0x0f 0x1f | 0x0f 0x19 | 0x87 0xc0 }
+ * rep=0x66*; nop=0x90
*/
static bool __skip_sstep(struct arch_uprobe *auprobe, struct pt_regs *regs)
{
int i;

for (i = 0; i < MAX_UINSN_BYTES; i++) {
- if ((auprobe->insn[i] == 0x66))
+ if (auprobe->insn[i] == 0x66)
continue;

if (auprobe->insn[i] == 0x90)
return true;

- if (i == (MAX_UINSN_BYTES - 1))
- break;
-
- if ((auprobe->insn[i] == 0x0f) && (auprobe->insn[i+1] == 0x1f))
- return true;
-
- if ((auprobe->insn[i] == 0x0f) && (auprobe->insn[i+1] == 0x19))
- return true;
-
- if ((auprobe->insn[i] == 0x87) && (auprobe->insn[i+1] == 0xc0))
- return true;
-
break;
}
return false;
--
1.5.5.1

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