linux-kernel - [PATCH 4/6] uprobes: change register_for_each_vma() to take mm->mmap

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Date:	Fri, 6 Apr 2012 00:21:46 +0200
From:	Oleg Nesterov <oleg@...hat.com>
To:	Ingo Molnar <mingo@...e.hu>, Peter Zijlstra <peterz@...radead.org>,
	Srikar Dronamraju <srikar@...ux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc:	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>,
	Ananth N Mavinakayanahalli <ananth@...ibm.com>,
	Jim Keniston <jkenisto@...ux.vnet.ibm.com>,
	LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	Linux-mm <linux-mm@...ck.org>, Andi Kleen <andi@...stfloor.org>,
	Christoph Hellwig <hch@...radead.org>,
	Steven Rostedt <rostedt@...dmis.org>,
	Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@...radead.org>,
	Masami Hiramatsu <masami.hiramatsu.pt@...achi.com>,
	Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>,
	Anton Arapov <anton@...hat.com>
Subject: [PATCH 4/6] uprobes: change register_for_each_vma() to take
	mm->mmap_sem for writing

Change register_for_each_vma() to take mm->mmap_sem for writing.
This is a bit unfortunate but hopefully not too bad, this is the
slow path anyway.

This is needed to ensure that find_active_uprobe() can not race
with uprobe_register() which adds the new bp at the same bp_vaddr,
after find_uprobe() fails and before is_swbp_at_addr_fast() checks
the memory.

IOW, this is needed to ensure that if find_active_uprobe() returns
NULL but is_swbp == true, we can safely assume that it was the
"normal" int3 and we should send SIGTRAP.
---
 kernel/events/uprobes.c |    8 ++++----
 1 files changed, 4 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)

diff --git a/kernel/events/uprobes.c b/kernel/events/uprobes.c
index 054c00f..2af458d 100644
--- a/kernel/events/uprobes.c
+++ b/kernel/events/uprobes.c
@@ -838,12 +838,12 @@ static int register_for_each_vma(struct uprobe *uprobe, bool is_register)
 		}
 
 		mm = vi->mm;
-		down_read(&mm->mmap_sem);
+		down_write(&mm->mmap_sem);
 		vma = find_vma(mm, (unsigned long)vi->vaddr);
 		if (!vma || !valid_vma(vma, is_register)) {
 			list_del(&vi->probe_list);
 			kfree(vi);
-			up_read(&mm->mmap_sem);
+			up_write(&mm->mmap_sem);
 			mmput(mm);
 			continue;
 		}
@@ -852,7 +852,7 @@ static int register_for_each_vma(struct uprobe *uprobe, bool is_register)
 						vaddr != vi->vaddr) {
 			list_del(&vi->probe_list);
 			kfree(vi);
-			up_read(&mm->mmap_sem);
+			up_write(&mm->mmap_sem);
 			mmput(mm);
 			continue;
 		}
@@ -862,7 +862,7 @@ static int register_for_each_vma(struct uprobe *uprobe, bool is_register)
 		else
 			remove_breakpoint(uprobe, mm, vi->vaddr);
 
-		up_read(&mm->mmap_sem);
+		up_write(&mm->mmap_sem);
 		mmput(mm);
 		if (is_register) {
 			if (ret && ret == -EEXIST)
-- 
1.5.5.1


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