Re: [PATCHv2 perf/core 1/2] uprobes/x86: Add support to emulate nop instructions

[Oleg Nesterov]

On 04/11, Andrii Nakryiko wrote:
>
> > --- a/arch/x86/kernel/uprobes.c
> > +++ b/arch/x86/kernel/uprobes.c
> > @@ -840,6 +840,12 @@ static int branch_setup_xol_ops(struct arch_uprobe *auprobe, struct insn *insn)
> >         insn_byte_t p;
> >         int i;
> >
> > +       /* x86_nops[i]; same as jmp with .offs = 0 */
> > +       for (i = 1; i <= ASM_NOP_MAX; ++i) {
>
> i <= ASM_NOP_MAX && i <= insn->length
>
> ?
>
> otherwise what prevents us from reading past the actual instruction bytes?

Well, copy_insn() just copies MAX_UINSN_BYTES into arch_uprobe.insn[].
If, say, the 1st 11 bytes of arch_uprobe.insn (or insn->kaddr) match
x86_nops[11] then insn->length must be 11, or insn_decode() is buggy?

> or, actually, shouldn't we just check memcmp(x86_nops[insn->length])
> if insn->length < ASM_NOP_MAX ?

Hmm... agreed.

Either way this check can't (doesn't even try to) detect, say,
"rep; BYTES_NOP5", so we do not care if insn->length == 6 in this case.

Good point!

Oleg.