linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v3 2.6.39-rc1-tip 15/26] 15: uprobes: Handing int3 and singlestep exception.

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Message-ID: <1303218742.7181.96.camel@gandalf.stny.rr.com>
Date:	Tue, 19 Apr 2011 09:12:21 -0400
From:	Steven Rostedt <rostedt@...dmis.org>
To:	Peter Zijlstra <peterz@...radead.org>
Cc:	Srikar Dronamraju <srikar@...ux.vnet.ibm.com>,
	Ingo Molnar <mingo@...e.hu>, Linux-mm <linux-mm@...ck.org>,
	Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@...radead.org>,
	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>,
	Jonathan Corbet <corbet@....net>,
	Christoph Hellwig <hch@...radead.org>,
	Masami Hiramatsu <masami.hiramatsu.pt@...achi.com>,
	Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>,
	Ananth N Mavinakayanahalli <ananth@...ibm.com>,
	Oleg Nesterov <oleg@...hat.com>,
	LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	SystemTap <systemtap@...rces.redhat.com>,
	Jim Keniston <jkenisto@...ux.vnet.ibm.com>,
	Roland McGrath <roland@...k.frob.com>,
	Andi Kleen <andi@...stfloor.org>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v3 2.6.39-rc1-tip 15/26] 15: uprobes: Handing int3 and
 singlestep exception.

On Tue, 2011-04-19 at 15:03 +0200, Peter Zijlstra wrote:
> On Fri, 2011-04-01 at 20:05 +0530, Srikar Dronamraju wrote:
> > +       if (unlikely(!utask)) {
> > +               utask = add_utask();
> > +
> > +               /* Failed to allocate utask for the current task. */
> > +               BUG_ON(!utask);
> 
> That's not really nice is it ;-) means I can make the kernel go BUG by
> simply applying memory pressure.

Agreed,

None of these patches should have a single BUG_ON(). They all must fail
nicely.

-- Steve

> 
> > +               utask->state = UTASK_BP_HIT;
> > +       } 


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