Re: [PATCH 13/X] uprobes: introduce UTASK_SSTEP_TRAPPED logic

[Oleg Nesterov]

On 10/22, Ananth N Mavinakayanahalli wrote:
>
> On Wed, Oct 19, 2011 at 11:53:44PM +0200, Oleg Nesterov wrote:
> > Finally, add UTASK_SSTEP_TRAPPED state/code to handle the case when
> > xol insn itself triggers the signal.
> >
> > In this case we should restart the original insn even if the task is
> > already SIGKILL'ed (say, the coredump should report the correct ip).
> > This is even more important if the task has a handler for SIGSEGV/etc,
> > The _same_ instruction should be repeated again after return from the
> > signal handler, and SSTEP can never finish in this case.
>
> Oleg,
>
> Not sure I understand this completely...

I hope you do not think I do ;)

> When you say 'correct ip' you mean the original vaddr where we now have
> a uprobe breakpoint and not the xol copy, right?

Yes,

> Coredump needs to report the correct ip, but should it also not report
> correctly the instruction that caused the signal? Ergo, shouldn't we
> put the original instruction back at the uprobed vaddr?

OK, now I see what you mean. I was confused by the "restore the original
instruction before _restart_" suggestion.

Agreed! it would be nice to "hide" these int3's if we dump the core, but
I think this is a bit off-topic. It makes sense to do this in any case,
even if the core-dumping was triggered by another thread/insn. It makes
sense to remove all int3's, not only at regs->ip location. But how can
we do this? This is nontrivial.

And. Even worse. Suppose that you do "gdb probed_application". Now you
see int3's in the disassemble output. What can we do?

I think we can do nothing, at least currently. This just reflects the
fact that uprobe connects to inode, not to process/mm/etc.

What do you think?

Oleg.

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