[PATCH 08/14] uprobes: kill copy_vma()->uprobe_mmap()

[Oleg Nesterov]

Kill copy_vma()->uprobe_mmap(new_vma), it is absolutely wrong.

This new_vma was just initialized to represent the new unmapped area,
[vm_start, vm_end) was returned by get_unmapped_area() in the caller.

This means that uprobe_mmap()->get_user_pages() will fail for sure,
simply because find_vma() can never succeed. And I verified that
sys_mremap()->mremap_to() indeed always fails with the wrong ENOMEM
code if [addr, addr+old_len] is probed.

And why this uprobe_mmap() was added? I believe the intent was wrong.
Note that the caller is going to do move_page_tables(), all registered
uprobes are already faulted in, we only change the virtual addresses.

NOTE: However, somehow we need to close the race with uprobe_register()
which relies on map_info->vaddr. This needs another fix I'll try to do
later. Probably we need uprobe_mmap() in move_vma() but we can not do
this right now, this can confuse uprobes_state.counter (which I still
hope we are going to kill).

Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@xxxxxxxxxx>
Acked-by: Srikar Dronamraju <srikar.vnet.ibm.com>
---
 mm/mmap.c |    3 ---
 1 files changed, 0 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)

diff --git a/mm/mmap.c b/mm/mmap.c
index 3edfcdf..e5a4614 100644
--- a/mm/mmap.c
+++ b/mm/mmap.c
@@ -2418,9 +2418,6 @@ struct vm_area_struct *copy_vma(struct vm_area_struct **vmap,
 			if (new_vma->vm_file) {
 				get_file(new_vma->vm_file);
 
-				if (uprobe_mmap(new_vma))
-					goto out_free_mempol;
-
 				if (vma->vm_flags & VM_EXECUTABLE)
 					added_exe_file_vma(mm);
 			}
-- 
1.5.5.1

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