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From: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>
To: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Cc: Denys Vlasenko <dvlasenk@redhat.com>,
	Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com>,
	Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>,
	Srikar Dronamraju <srikar@linux.vnet.ibm.com>,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: [PATCH] uprobes: Shift ->readpage check from __copy_insn() to uprobe_register()
Date: Mon, 19 May 2014 20:40:54 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20140519184054.GA6750@redhat.com> (raw)

Sorry for double-posting, but it seems that this patch didn't reach
lkml. Let me resend it just on case. Plus another patch in reply, on
top of this change.

-------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Subject: [PATCH] uprobes: Shift ->readpage check from __copy_insn() to uprobe_register()

copy_insn() fails with -EIO if ->readpage == NULL, but this error
is not propagated unless uprobe_register() path finds ->mm which
already mmaps this file. In this case (say) "perf record" does not
actually install the probe, but the user can't know about this.

Move this check into uprobe_register() so that this problem can be
detected earlier and reported to user.

Note: this is still not perfect,

	- copy_insn() and arch_uprobe_analyze_insn() should be called
	  by uprobe_register() but this is not simple, we need vm_file
	  for read_mapping_page() (although perhaps we can pass NULL),
	  and we need ->mm for is_64bit_mm() (although this logic is
	  broken anyway).

	- uprobe_register() should be called by create_trace_uprobe(),
	  not by probe_event_enable(), so that an error can be detected
	  at "perf probe -x" time. This also needs more changes in the
	  core uprobe code, uprobe register/unregister interface was
	  poorly designed from the very beginning.

Reported-by: Denys Vlasenko <dvlasenk@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>
---
 kernel/events/uprobes.c |    6 +++---
 1 files changed, 3 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)

diff --git a/kernel/events/uprobes.c b/kernel/events/uprobes.c
index 3b02c72..c56b13e 100644
--- a/kernel/events/uprobes.c
+++ b/kernel/events/uprobes.c
@@ -536,9 +536,6 @@ static int __copy_insn(struct address_space *mapping, struct file *filp,
 			void *insn, int nbytes, loff_t offset)
 {
 	struct page *page;
-
-	if (!mapping->a_ops->readpage)
-		return -EIO;
 	/*
 	 * Ensure that the page that has the original instruction is
 	 * populated and in page-cache.
@@ -879,6 +876,9 @@ int uprobe_register(struct inode *inode, loff_t offset, struct uprobe_consumer *
 	if (!uc->handler && !uc->ret_handler)
 		return -EINVAL;
 
+	/* copy_insn()->read_mapping_page() needs ->readpage() */
+	if (!inode->i_mapping->a_ops->readpage)
+		return -EIO;
 	/* Racy, just to catch the obvious mistakes */
 	if (offset > i_size_read(inode))
 		return -EINVAL;
-- 
1.5.5.1



             reply	other threads:[~2014-05-19 18:41 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2014-05-19 18:40 Oleg Nesterov [this message]
2014-05-19 18:41 ` [PATCH] uprobes: Teach copy_insn() to support tmpfs Oleg Nesterov
2014-05-21  8:54   ` Srikar Dronamraju
2014-06-05 14:39   ` [tip:perf/core] " tip-bot for Oleg Nesterov
2014-05-21  8:53 ` [PATCH] uprobes: Shift ->readpage check from __copy_insn() to uprobe_register() Srikar Dronamraju
2014-06-05 14:38 ` [tip:perf/core] uprobes: Shift ->readpage check from __copy_insn( ) " tip-bot for Oleg Nesterov

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