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From: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>
To: Masami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@kernel.org>
Cc: syzbot <syzbot+30d675e3ca03c1c351e7@syzkaller.appspotmail.com>,
	bp@suse.de, hpa@zytor.com, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
	mingo@redhat.com, ricardo.neri-calderon@linux.intel.com,
	syzkaller-bugs@googlegroups.com, tglx@linutronix.de,
	x86@kernel.org, yhs@fb.com
Subject: Re: WARNING in arch_uprobe_analyze_insn
Date: Tue, 15 May 2018 18:18:18 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20180515161818.GA22580@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20180515234825.d9bea077f296354f3724f736@kernel.org>

On 05/15, Masami Hiramatsu wrote:
>
> On Tue, 15 May 2018 15:36:30 +0200
> Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com> wrote:
>
> > Unfortunately, insn_get_length() returns void, and I do not see any
> > insn-was-decoded-correctly helper. Perhaps we should simply remove
> > this WARN_ON() ?
>
> Yes, it should just return an error,

OK, I'll send the fix,

> since user can miss the
> probe address on user binary and we can not make sure
> that is on a instruction boundary.

Or this insn is actually invalid.

> > Alternatively, If am right we can move this check down after the "good_insns"
> > checks, but this doesn't look very clean to me.
>
> I think it is enough if arch_uprobe_analyze_insn() returns an error.
> That makes prepare_uprobe() fail and finally leads uprobe_register()
> fail.

I meant that this way we could probably keep WARN_ON(). Nevermind.

Thanks!

Oleg.

  reply	other threads:[~2018-05-15 16:18 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2018-05-14 14:24 WARNING in arch_uprobe_analyze_insn syzbot
2018-05-15 13:36 ` Oleg Nesterov
2018-05-15 14:48   ` Masami Hiramatsu
2018-05-15 16:18     ` Oleg Nesterov [this message]
2018-05-18 16:27 ` [PATCH] uprobes/x86: remove the wrong WARN_ON() in uprobe_init_insn() Oleg Nesterov
2018-05-18 23:58   ` Masami Hiramatsu

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