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

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

* Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com> [2014-05-19 20:40:54]:

> 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.
> 
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> 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>

Acked-by: Srikar Dronamraju <srikar@linux.vnet.ibm.com>

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Thanks and Regards
Srikar Dronamraju