[PATCH tip/x86/asm] uprobes: __create_xol_area() must nullify xol_mapping.fault

From: Oleg Nesterov
Date: Sat Feb 27 2016 - 17:11:44 EST


As Jiri pointed out, the recent commit f872f5400cc0 "mm: Add a
vm_special_mapping.fault() method" breaks uprobes. __create_xol_area()
doesn't initialize the new ->fault() method and this obviously leads to
kernel crash when the application tries to execute the probed insn after
bp hit.

We probably want to add uprobes_special_mapping_fault(), this allows to
turn xol_area->xol_mapping into a single instance of vm_special_mapping.
But we need a simple fix, so lets change __create_xol() to nullify the
new member as Jiri suggests.

Reported-by: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@xxxxxxxxxx>
Suggested-by: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@xxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@xxxxxxxxxx>
---
kernel/events/uprobes.c | 1 +
1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)

diff --git a/kernel/events/uprobes.c b/kernel/events/uprobes.c
index 0167679..5f6ce93 100644
--- a/kernel/events/uprobes.c
+++ b/kernel/events/uprobes.c
@@ -1178,6 +1178,7 @@ static struct xol_area *__create_xol_area(unsigned long vaddr)
goto free_area;

area->xol_mapping.name = "[uprobes]";
+ area->xol_mapping.fault = NULL;
area->xol_mapping.pages = area->pages;
area->pages[0] = alloc_page(GFP_HIGHUSER);
if (!area->pages[0])
--
2.5.0