Re: [PATCH v8 3.2.0-rc5 1/9] uprobes: Install and removebreakpoints.

From: Peter Zijlstra
Date: Wed Jan 04 2012 - 11:52:32 EST


On Fri, 2011-12-16 at 17:58 +0530, Srikar Dronamraju wrote:
> +static int register_for_each_vma(struct uprobe *uprobe, bool is_register)
> +{
> + struct list_head try_list;
> + struct vm_area_struct *vma;
> + struct address_space *mapping;
> + struct vma_info *vi, *tmpvi;
> + struct mm_struct *mm;
> + loff_t vaddr;
> + int ret = 0;
> +
> + mapping = uprobe->inode->i_mapping;
> + INIT_LIST_HEAD(&try_list);
> + while ((vi = find_next_vma_info(&try_list, uprobe->offset,
> + mapping, is_register)) != NULL) {
> + if (IS_ERR(vi)) {
> + ret = PTR_ERR(vi);
> + break;
> + }
> + mm = vi->mm;
> + down_read(&mm->mmap_sem);
> + vma = find_vma(mm, (unsigned long)vi->vaddr);
> + if (!vma || !valid_vma(vma, is_register)) {
> + list_del(&vi->probe_list);
> + kfree(vi);
> + up_read(&mm->mmap_sem);
> + mmput(mm);
> + continue;
> + }
> + vaddr = vma_address(vma, uprobe->offset);
> + if (vma->vm_file->f_mapping->host != uprobe->inode ||
> + vaddr != vi->vaddr) {
> + list_del(&vi->probe_list);
> + kfree(vi);
> + up_read(&mm->mmap_sem);
> + mmput(mm);
> + continue;
> + }
> +
> + if (is_register)
> + ret = install_breakpoint(mm, uprobe, vma, vi->vaddr);
> + else
> + remove_breakpoint(mm, uprobe, vi->vaddr);
> +
> + up_read(&mm->mmap_sem);
> + mmput(mm);
> + if (is_register) {
> + if (ret && ret == -EEXIST)
> + ret = 0;
> + if (ret)
> + break;
> + }

Since you init ret := 0 and remove_breakpoint doesn't change it, this
conditional on is_register is superfluous.

> + }
> + list_for_each_entry_safe(vi, tmpvi, &try_list, probe_list) {
> + list_del(&vi->probe_list);
> + kfree(vi);
> + }
> + return ret;
> +}
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