Re: [PATCH] uprobes/core: handle breakpoint and signal step exception.

[Srikar Dronamraju <srikar@linux.vnet.ibm.com>]

* Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> [2012-03-08 14:48:09]:

> 
> * Srikar Dronamraju <srikar@linux.vnet.ibm.com> wrote:
> 
> > @@ -233,9 +233,11 @@ static inline void __user *arch_compat_alloc_user_space(long len)
> >  
> >  	if (test_thread_flag(TIF_IA32)) {
> >  		sp = task_pt_regs(current)->sp;
> > +#ifdef CONFIG_X86_64
> >  	} else {
> >  		/* -128 for the x32 ABI redzone */
> >  		sp = __this_cpu_read(old_rsp) - 128;
> > +#endif
> >  	}
> >  
> >  	return (void __user *)round_down(sp - len, 16);
> 
> So 'sp' is undefined if that TIF check fails?
> 
> Also, on a 32-bit kernel the TIF check probably fails all the 
> time, because we don't set TIF_IA32 (and don't know that flag).

> 
> It would probably be better to make the whole helper inline 
> #ifdef 64-bit, it does not look very useful on 32-bit.
> 

arch_compat_alloc_user_space gets called from compat_alloc_user_space
which is arch agnostic and exported too.

So I will change this to

void __user *arch_compat_alloc_user_space(long len)
{
  	if (is_ia32_compat_task(current))
  		sp = task_pt_regs(current)->sp;
#ifdef CONFIG_X86_64
  	else
  		/* -128 for the x32 ABI redzone */
  		sp = __this_cpu_read(old_rsp) - 128;
#endif
  
  	return (void __user *)round_down(sp - len, 16);
}

where is_ia32_compat_task() is the new macro that you suggested we put
in compat.h which would return true if the task is 32 bit emulated on
x86_64 or running on i386 machine.

Hence we can avoid the case where sp is not set.

-- 
Thanks and Regards
Srikar