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Message-ID: <20120607170041.GC31974@redhat.com>
Date:	Thu, 7 Jun 2012 19:00:41 +0200
From:	Oleg Nesterov <oleg@...hat.com>
To:	Hugh Dickins <hughd@...gle.com>, Ingo Molnar <mingo@...e.hu>,
	Peter Zijlstra <peterz@...radead.org>,
	Srikar Dronamraju <srikar@...ux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc:	Ananth N Mavinakayanahalli <ananth@...ibm.com>,
	Anton Arapov <anton@...hat.com>,
	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>,
	Masami Hiramatsu <masami.hiramatsu.pt@...achi.com>,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: [PATCH 3/3] uprobes: write_opcode()->__replace_page() can race
	with try_to_unmap()

write_opcode() gets old_page via get_user_pages() and then calls
__replace_page() which assumes that this old_page is still mapped
after pte_offset_map_lock().

This is not true if this old_page was already try_to_unmap()'ed,
and in this case everything __replace_page() does with old_page
is wrong. Just for example, put_page() is not balanced.

I think it is possible to teach __replace_page() to handle this
unlikely case correctly, but this patch simply changes it to use
page_check_address() and return -EAGAIN if it fails. The caller
should notice this error code and retry.

Note: write_opcode() asks for the cleanups, I'll try to do this
in a separate patch.

Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@...hat.com>
---
 kernel/events/uprobes.c |   34 +++++++++-------------------------
 1 files changed, 9 insertions(+), 25 deletions(-)

diff --git a/kernel/events/uprobes.c b/kernel/events/uprobes.c
index 9c53bc2..b3e8d5b 100644
--- a/kernel/events/uprobes.c
+++ b/kernel/events/uprobes.c
@@ -135,33 +135,17 @@ static loff_t vma_address(struct vm_area_struct *vma, loff_t offset)
 static int __replace_page(struct vm_area_struct *vma, struct page *page, struct page *kpage)
 {
 	struct mm_struct *mm = vma->vm_mm;
-	pgd_t *pgd;
-	pud_t *pud;
-	pmd_t *pmd;
-	pte_t *ptep;
-	spinlock_t *ptl;
 	unsigned long addr;
-	int err = -EFAULT;
+	spinlock_t *ptl;
+	pte_t *ptep;
 
 	addr = page_address_in_vma(page, vma);
 	if (addr == -EFAULT)
-		goto out;
-
-	pgd = pgd_offset(mm, addr);
-	if (!pgd_present(*pgd))
-		goto out;
-
-	pud = pud_offset(pgd, addr);
-	if (!pud_present(*pud))
-		goto out;
-
-	pmd = pmd_offset(pud, addr);
-	if (!pmd_present(*pmd))
-		goto out;
+		return -EFAULT;
 
-	ptep = pte_offset_map_lock(mm, pmd, addr, &ptl);
+	ptep = page_check_address(page, mm, addr, &ptl, 0);
 	if (!ptep)
-		goto out;
+		return -EAGAIN;
 
 	get_page(kpage);
 	page_add_new_anon_rmap(kpage, vma, addr);
@@ -180,10 +164,8 @@ static int __replace_page(struct vm_area_struct *vma, struct page *page, struct
 		try_to_free_swap(page);
 	put_page(page);
 	pte_unmap_unlock(ptep, ptl);
-	err = 0;
 
-out:
-	return err;
+	return 0;
 }
 
 /**
@@ -230,7 +212,7 @@ static int write_opcode(struct arch_uprobe *auprobe, struct mm_struct *mm,
 	struct uprobe *uprobe;
 	loff_t addr;
 	int ret;
-
+retry:
 	/* Read the page with vaddr into memory */
 	ret = get_user_pages(NULL, mm, vaddr, 1, 0, 0, &old_page, &vma);
 	if (ret <= 0)
@@ -297,6 +279,8 @@ unlock_out:
 put_out:
 	put_page(old_page);
 
+	if (unlikely(ret == -EAGAIN))
+		goto retry;
 	return ret;
 }
 
-- 
1.5.5.1


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