From: Srikar Dronamraju <srikar@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
To: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>
Cc: Ananth N Mavinakayanahalli <ananth@in.ibm.com>,
Anton Arapov <arapov@gmail.com>,
David Long <dave.long@linaro.org>,
Denys Vlasenko <dvlasenk@redhat.com>,
"Frank Ch. Eigler" <fche@redhat.com>,
Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>, Jan Willeke <willeke@de.ibm.com>,
Jim Keniston <jkenisto@us.ibm.com>,
Mark Wielaard <mjw@redhat.com>,
Pratyush Anand <panand@redhat.com>,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 09/10] uprobes: Change prepare_uretprobe() to (try to) flush the dead frames
Date: Thu, 7 May 2015 16:49:03 +0530 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20150507111903.GG30396@linux.vnet.ibm.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20150504124922.GA22522@redhat.com>
* Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com> [2015-05-04 14:49:22]:
> Change prepare_uretprobe() to flush the !arch_uretprobe_is_alive()
> return_instance's. This is not needed correctness-wise, but can help
> to avoid the failure caused by MAX_URETPROBE_DEPTH.
>
> Note: in this case arch_uretprobe_is_alive() can be false positive,
> the stack can grow after longjmp(). Unfortunately, the kernel can't
> 100% solve this problem, but see the next patch.
>
> Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>
> ---
> kernel/events/uprobes.c | 13 +++++++++++++
Looks good to me.
Acked-by: Srikar Dronamraju <srikar@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
--
Thanks and Regards
Srikar Dronamraju
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2015-05-07 11:19 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 29+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2015-05-04 12:48 [PATCH 00/10] uprobes: longjmp fixes Oleg Nesterov
2015-05-04 12:48 ` [PATCH 01/10] uprobes: Introduce get_uprobe() Oleg Nesterov
2015-05-06 13:20 ` Srikar Dronamraju
2015-05-04 12:48 ` [PATCH 02/10] uprobes: Introduce free_ret_instance() Oleg Nesterov
2015-05-06 13:22 ` Srikar Dronamraju
2015-05-04 12:48 ` [PATCH 03/10] uprobes: Send SIGILL if handle_trampoline() fails Oleg Nesterov
2015-05-06 13:30 ` Srikar Dronamraju
2015-05-04 12:49 ` [PATCH 04/10] uprobes: Change prepare_uretprobe() to use uprobe_warn() Oleg Nesterov
2015-05-07 10:32 ` Srikar Dronamraju
2015-05-04 12:49 ` [PATCH 05/10] uprobes: Change handle_trampoline() to find the next chain beforehand Oleg Nesterov
2015-05-07 10:33 ` Srikar Dronamraju
2015-05-04 12:49 ` [PATCH 06/10] uprobes: Introduce struct arch_uretprobe Oleg Nesterov
2015-05-07 10:34 ` Srikar Dronamraju
2015-05-04 12:49 ` [PATCH 07/10] uprobes/x86: Introduce arch_uretprobe_is_alive() Oleg Nesterov
2015-05-07 10:35 ` Srikar Dronamraju
2015-05-07 11:08 ` Srikar Dronamraju
2015-05-07 17:11 ` Oleg Nesterov
2015-05-08 11:30 ` Srikar Dronamraju
2015-05-10 12:21 ` Oleg Nesterov
2015-05-13 8:11 ` Srikar Dronamraju
2015-05-20 16:51 ` Oleg Nesterov
2015-05-18 12:08 ` Pratyush Anand
2015-05-20 15:51 ` Oleg Nesterov
2015-05-04 12:49 ` [PATCH 08/10] uprobes: Change handle_trampoline() to flush the frames invalidated by longjmp() Oleg Nesterov
2015-05-07 10:38 ` Srikar Dronamraju
2015-05-04 12:49 ` [PATCH 09/10] uprobes: Change prepare_uretprobe() to (try to) flush the dead frames Oleg Nesterov
2015-05-07 11:19 ` Srikar Dronamraju [this message]
2015-06-05 21:40 ` Oleg Nesterov
2015-05-04 12:49 ` [PATCH 10/10] uprobes/x86: Change arch_uretprobe_is_alive() to take !chained into account Oleg Nesterov
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