linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 0/5] uprobes: fix fork() with the pending ret-probe(s)

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Date:	Mon, 14 Oct 2013 20:29:03 +0200
From:	Oleg Nesterov <oleg@...hat.com>
To:	Ingo Molnar <mingo@...e.hu>
Cc:	Anton Arapov <aarapov@...hat.com>, David Smith <dsmith@...hat.com>,
	"Frank Ch. Eigler" <fche@...hat.com>,
	Martin Cermak <mcermak@...hat.com>,
	Peter Zijlstra <peterz@...radead.org>,
	Srikar Dronamraju <srikar@...ux.vnet.ibm.com>,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/5] uprobes: fix fork() with the pending ret-probe(s)

On 10/13, Oleg Nesterov wrote:
>
> Please review, this series fixes the serious bug reported by
> Martin and David and cc's stable. See the changelog in 5/5.

Forgot to mention...

This probably needs another patch to handle the special case, vfork().
In this case it would be more correct to dup return_instances but
(obviously) avoid dup_xol_area.

However I think this is not that important, the child should not "unwind"
the stack if it shares mm/stack with its parent, otherwise it can corrupt
the parent's stack.

So I think that this change (which needs to pass "clone_flags" to
uprobe_copy_process) is not the stable material. But I'll update the
changelog in 4/5 to explain that "mm == t->mm" check should be updated.

Oleg.

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