Re: [PATCH v2 2.6.38-rc8-tip 3/20] 3: uprobes: Breakground page replacement.

Srikar Dronamraju
2011-03-14T17:35:57Z

* Stephen Wilson <wilsons@start.ca> [2011-03-14 12:58:18]:

> On Mon, Mar 14, 2011 at 07:04:33PM +0530, Srikar Dronamraju wrote:
> > +/**
> > + * read_opcode - read the opcode at a given virtual address.
> > + * @tsk: the probed task.
> > + * @vaddr: the virtual address to store the opcode.
> > + * @opcode: location to store the read opcode.
> > + *
> > + * For task @tsk, read the opcode at @vaddr and store it in @opcode.
> > + * Return 0 (success) or a negative errno.
> > + */
> > +int __weak read_opcode(struct task_struct *tsk, unsigned long vaddr,
> > + uprobe_opcode_t *opcode)
> > +{
> > + struct vm_area_struct *vma;
> > + struct page *page;
> > + void *vaddr_new;
> > + int ret;
> > +
> > + ret = get_user_pages(tsk, tsk->mm, vaddr, 1, 0, 0, &page, &vma);
> > + if (ret <= 0)
> > + return -EFAULT;
> > + ret = -EFAULT;
> > +
> > + /*
> > + * check if the page we are interested is read-only mapped
> > + * Since we are interested in text pages, Our pages of interest
> > + * should be mapped read-only.
> > + */
> > + if ((vma->vm_flags & (VM_READ|VM_WRITE|VM_EXEC|VM_SHARED)) ==
> > + (VM_READ|VM_EXEC))
> > + goto put_out;
> > +
> > + lock_page(page);
> > + vaddr_new = kmap_atomic(page, KM_USER0);
> > + vaddr &= ~PAGE_MASK;
> > + memcpy(&opcode, vaddr_new + vaddr, uprobe_opcode_sz);
> > + kunmap_atomic(vaddr_new, KM_USER0);
> > + unlock_page(page);
> > + ret = uprobe_opcode_sz;
>
> This looks wrong. We should be setting ret = 0 on success here?

Right, I should have set ret = 0 here.

>
> > +
> > +put_out:
> > + put_page(page); /* we did a get_page in the beginning */
> > + return ret;
> > +}
>
> --
> steve
>