Re: [PATCH 5/5] uprobes: Change uprobe_copy_process() to dup xol_area

[Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>]

On 10/13, Oleg Nesterov wrote:
>
> Unfortunately, uprobe_copy_process() can not simply do
> __create_xol_area(child, xol_area->vaddr). This could actually work
> but perf_event_mmap() doesn't expect the usage of foreign ->mm. So
> we offload this to task_work_run(), and pass the argument via not
> yet used utask->vaddr.

OK, this patch needs a fix, I'll send v2 in a minute.


> +	work = kmalloc(sizeof(*work), GFP_KERNEL);
> +	if (!work)
> +		return uprobe_warn(t, "dup xol area");
> +
> +	utask->vaddr = mm->uprobes_state.xol_area->vaddr;

Yes, currently utask->return_instances && !uprobes_state.xol_area
is not possible.

> +	init_task_work(work, dup_xol_work);
> +	task_work_add(t, work, true);

But if dup_xol_work() fails and the child does another fork(), it
can hit area == NULL, so we need to check this.

Oleg.