[tip:perf/core] uprobes: Teach handle_swbp() to rely on "is_swbp" rather than uprobes_srcu

From: tip-bot for Oleg Nesterov
Date: Wed Jun 06 2012 - 12:10:23 EST


Commit-ID: 56bb4cf6475d702d2fb00fc641aa6441097c0330
Gitweb: http://git.kernel.org/tip/56bb4cf6475d702d2fb00fc641aa6441097c0330
Author: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@xxxxxxxxxx>
AuthorDate: Tue, 29 May 2012 21:29:47 +0200
Committer: Ingo Molnar <mingo@xxxxxxxxxx>
CommitDate: Wed, 6 Jun 2012 17:22:03 +0200

uprobes: Teach handle_swbp() to rely on "is_swbp" rather than uprobes_srcu

Currently handle_swbp() assumes that it can't race with
unregister, so it roughly does:

if (find_uprobe(vaddr))
process_uprobe();
else
send_sig(SIGTRAP);

This relies on the not-really-working uprobes_srcu code we are
going to remove, see the next patch.

With this patch we rely on the result of
is_swbp_at_addr(bp_vaddr) if find_uprobe() fails.

If is_swbp == 1, then we hit the normal int3, we should send
SIGTRAP.

If is_swbp == 0, we raced with uprobe_unregister(), we simply
restart this insn again.

The "difficult" case is is_swbp == -EFAULT, when we can't read
this memory. In this case I think we should restart too, and
this is more correct compared to the current code which sends
SIGTRAP.

Ignoring ENOMEM/etc from get_user_pages(), this can only happen
if another thread unmaps this memory before find_active_uprobe()
takes mmap_sem. It would be better to pretend it was unmapped
before this insn was executed, restart, and get SIGSEGV.

Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@xxxxxxxxxx>
Acked-by: Srikar Dronamraju <srikar@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Ananth N Mavinakayanahalli <ananth@xxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Anton Arapov <anton@xxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Masami Hiramatsu <masami.hiramatsu.pt@xxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20120529192947.GF8057@xxxxxxxxxx
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@xxxxxxxxxx>
---
kernel/events/uprobes.c | 18 +++++++++++++++---
1 files changed, 15 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)

diff --git a/kernel/events/uprobes.c b/kernel/events/uprobes.c
index a2ed82b..1f02e3b 100644
--- a/kernel/events/uprobes.c
+++ b/kernel/events/uprobes.c
@@ -1530,14 +1530,26 @@ static void handle_swbp(struct pt_regs *regs)
struct uprobe_task *utask;
struct uprobe *uprobe;
unsigned long bp_vaddr;
- int is_swbp;
+ int uninitialized_var(is_swbp);

bp_vaddr = uprobe_get_swbp_addr(regs);
uprobe = find_active_uprobe(bp_vaddr, &is_swbp);

if (!uprobe) {
- /* No matching uprobe; signal SIGTRAP. */
- send_sig(SIGTRAP, current, 0);
+ if (is_swbp > 0) {
+ /* No matching uprobe; signal SIGTRAP. */
+ send_sig(SIGTRAP, current, 0);
+ } else {
+ /*
+ * Either we raced with uprobe_unregister() or we can't
+ * access this memory. The latter is only possible if
+ * another thread plays with our ->mm. In both cases
+ * we can simply restart. If this vma was unmapped we
+ * can pretend this insn was not executed yet and get
+ * the (correct) SIGSEGV after restart.
+ */
+ instruction_pointer_set(regs, bp_vaddr);
+ }
return;
}

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