[tip:perf/core] uprobes: Remove copy_vma()->uprobe_mmap()

From: tip-bot for Oleg Nesterov
Date: Mon Jul 30 2012 - 10:16:02 EST


Commit-ID: 6dab3cc078e3da0d26534410bc9e018a17031d95
Gitweb: http://git.kernel.org/tip/6dab3cc078e3da0d26534410bc9e018a17031d95
Author: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@xxxxxxxxxx>
AuthorDate: Sun, 29 Jul 2012 20:22:36 +0200
Committer: Ingo Molnar <mingo@xxxxxxxxxx>
CommitDate: Mon, 30 Jul 2012 11:27:22 +0200

uprobes: Remove copy_vma()->uprobe_mmap()

Remove 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>
Cc: Anton Arapov <anton@xxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Srikar Dronamraju <srikar@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20120729182236.GA20342@xxxxxxxxxx
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@xxxxxxxxxx>
---
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);
}
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