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Message-ID: <20111025155259.GB17067@redhat.com>
Date:	Tue, 25 Oct 2011 17:52:59 +0200
From:	Oleg Nesterov <oleg@...hat.com>
To:	Srikar Dronamraju <srikar@...ux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc:	Peter Zijlstra <peterz@...radead.org>,
	"H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@...or.com>,
	Steven Rostedt <rostedt@...dmis.org>,
	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>,
	Christoph Hellwig <hch@...radead.org>,
	Ananth N Mavinakayanahalli <ananth@...ibm.com>,
	Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>,
	Andi Kleen <andi@...stfloor.org>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
	Jim Keniston <jkenisto@...ux.vnet.ibm.com>,
	Roland McGrath <roland@...k.frob.com>,
	Ingo Molnar <mingo@...e.hu>,
	Alexander van Heukelum <heukelum@...tmail.fm>,
	LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [RFC] [PATCH x86 2/2] Cleanup do_int3

On 10/25, Srikar Dronamraju wrote:
>
> Since there is a possibility of !KPROBES int3 listeners and since
> DIE_TRAP is currently not being used by anybody, notify all listeners
> with DIE_INT3.

Obviously I can't ack this change, but it looks like the bugfix to me.

The current code uses DIE_INT3 or DIE_TRAP depending on CONFIG_KPROBES,
this can't be right.

> Signed-off-by: Ananth N Mavinakayanahalli <ananth@...ibm.com>
> Signed-off-by: Srikar Dronamraju <srikar@...ux.vnet.ibm.com>
> ---
>  arch/x86/kernel/traps.c |    7 +------
>  1 files changed, 1 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/arch/x86/kernel/traps.c b/arch/x86/kernel/traps.c
> index 6913369..c9a4be5 100644
> --- a/arch/x86/kernel/traps.c
> +++ b/arch/x86/kernel/traps.c
> @@ -461,15 +461,10 @@ dotraplinkage void __kprobes do_int3(struct pt_regs *regs, long error_code)
>  			== NOTIFY_STOP)
>  		return;
>  #endif /* CONFIG_KGDB_LOW_LEVEL_TRAP */
> -#ifdef CONFIG_KPROBES
> +
>  	if (notify_die(DIE_INT3, "int3", regs, error_code, 3, SIGTRAP)
>  			== NOTIFY_STOP)
>  		return;
> -#else
> -	if (notify_die(DIE_TRAP, "int3", regs, error_code, 3, SIGTRAP)
> -			== NOTIFY_STOP)
> -		return;
> -#endif
>  
>  	preempt_conditional_sti(regs);
>  	do_trap(3, SIGTRAP, "int3", regs, error_code, NULL);
> 

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