Re: [PATCH v2 08/11] uprobes: Change handle_trampoline() to flush the frames invalidated by longjmp()
From: Srikar Dronamraju
Date: Fri Jul 10 2015 - 07:57:00 EST
> Change handle_trampoline() to unwind ->return_instances until we know
> that the next chain is alive or NULL, this ensures that the current
> chain is the last we need to report and free.
>
> Alternatively, every return_instance could use unique trampoline_vaddr,
> in this case we could use it as a key. And this could solve the problem
> with sigaltstack() automatically.
>
> But this approach needs more changes, and it puts the "hard" limit on
> MAX_URETPROBE_DEPTH. Plus it can not solve another problem partially
> fixed by the next patch.
>
> Note: this change has no effect on !x86, the arch-agnostic version of
> arch_uretprobe_is_alive() just returns "true".
>
> TODO: as documented by the previous change, arch_uretprobe_is_alive()
> can be fooled by sigaltstack/etc.
>
> Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@xxxxxxxxxx>
Looks good to me.
Acked-by: Srikar Dronamraju <srikar@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
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Thanks and Regards
Srikar Dronamraju
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