linux-kernel - [PATCH] x86: kprobes change kprobe

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Date:	Thu, 27 Dec 2007 17:44:25 -0800
From:	Harvey Harrison <harvey.harrison@...il.com>
To:	Masami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@...hat.com>
Cc:	Ingo Molnar <mingo@...e.hu>, "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@...or.com>,
	LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>
Subject: [PATCH] x86: kprobes change kprobe_handler flow

Make the control flow of kprobe_handler more obvious.

Collapse the separate if blocks/gotos with if/else blocks
this unifies the duplication of the check for a breakpoint
instruction race with another cpu.

Signed-off-by: Harvey Harrison <harvey.harrison@...il.com>
---
Masami, please have a look at this, I think it's much more obvious
written this way.  The way the old code fell through or not was rather
non-obvious.  Some further work eliminating the nested returns and
creating a out: and preempt_out: target at the end of the function
would make it easier to notice preempt imbalances in later  changes.

 arch/x86/kernel/kprobes.c |   48 ++++++++++++++++----------------------------
 1 files changed, 18 insertions(+), 30 deletions(-)

diff --git a/arch/x86/kernel/kprobes.c b/arch/x86/kernel/kprobes.c
index 4e33329..d656215 100644
--- a/arch/x86/kernel/kprobes.c
+++ b/arch/x86/kernel/kprobes.c
@@ -480,32 +480,22 @@ static int __kprobes kprobe_handler(struct pt_regs *regs)
 	preempt_disable();
 	kcb = get_kprobe_ctlblk();
 
-	/* Check we're not actually recursing */
-	if (kprobe_running()) {
-		p = get_kprobe(addr);
-		if (p) {
+	p = get_kprobe(addr);
+	if (p) {
+		/* Check we're not actually recursing */
+		if (kprobe_running()) {
 			ret = reenter_kprobe(p, regs, kcb);
 			if (kcb->kprobe_status == KPROBE_REENTER)
 				return 1;
+			goto no_kprobe;
 		} else {
-			if (*addr != BREAKPOINT_INSTRUCTION) {
-			/* The breakpoint instruction was removed by
-			 * another cpu right after we hit, no further
-			 * handling of this interrupt is appropriate
-			 */
-				regs->ip = (unsigned long)addr;
-				ret = 1;
-				goto no_kprobe;
-			}
-			p = __get_cpu_var(current_kprobe);
-			if (p->break_handler && p->break_handler(p, regs))
-				goto ss_probe;
+			set_current_kprobe(p, regs, kcb);
+			kcb->kprobe_status = KPROBE_HIT_ACTIVE;
+			if (p->pre_handler && p->pre_handler(p, regs))
+				/* handler set things up, skip ss setup */
+				return 1;
 		}
-		goto no_kprobe;
-	}
-
-	p = get_kprobe(addr);
-	if (!p) {
+	} else {
 		if (*addr != BREAKPOINT_INSTRUCTION) {
 			/*
 			 * The breakpoint instruction was removed right
@@ -518,18 +508,16 @@ static int __kprobes kprobe_handler(struct pt_regs *regs)
 			 */
 			regs->ip = (unsigned long)addr;
 			ret = 1;
+			goto no_kprobe;
+		}
+		if (kprobe_running()) {
+			p = __get_cpu_var(current_kprobe);
+			if (p->break_handler && p->break_handler(p, regs))
+				goto ss_probe;
+			goto no_kprobe;
 		}
-		/* Not one of ours: let kernel handle it */
-		goto no_kprobe;
 	}
 
-	set_current_kprobe(p, regs, kcb);
-	kcb->kprobe_status = KPROBE_HIT_ACTIVE;
-
-	if (p->pre_handler && p->pre_handler(p, regs))
-		/* handler has already set things up, so skip ss setup */
-		return 1;
-
 ss_probe:
 #if !defined(CONFIG_PREEMPT) || defined(CONFIG_PM)
 	if (p->ainsn.boostable == 1 && !p->post_handler) {
-- 
1.5.4.rc2.1097.gb6e0d



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