linux-kernel - [tip:perf/core] uprobes: Copy_insn() should not return -ENOMEM if __copy

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Message-ID: <tip-fc36f59565861af2e897225bc3782479a26c5d5a@git.kernel.org>
Date:	Mon, 18 Jun 2012 01:57:04 -0700
From:	tip-bot for Oleg Nesterov <oleg@...hat.com>
To:	linux-tip-commits@...r.kernel.org
Cc:	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, hpa@...or.com, mingo@...nel.org,
	peterz@...radead.org, ananth@...ibm.com, anton@...hat.com,
	srikar@...ux.vnet.ibm.com, tglx@...utronix.de, oleg@...hat.com
Subject: [tip:perf/core] uprobes: Copy_insn()
  should not return -ENOMEM if __copy_insn() fails

Commit-ID:  fc36f59565861af2e897225bc3782479a26c5d5a
Gitweb:     http://git.kernel.org/tip/fc36f59565861af2e897225bc3782479a26c5d5a
Author:     Oleg Nesterov <oleg@...hat.com>
AuthorDate: Fri, 15 Jun 2012 17:43:44 +0200
Committer:  Ingo Molnar <mingo@...nel.org>
CommitDate: Sat, 16 Jun 2012 09:10:46 +0200

uprobes: Copy_insn() should not return -ENOMEM if __copy_insn() fails

copy_insn() returns -ENOMEM if the first __copy_insn() fails,
it should return the correct error code.

Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@...hat.com>
Acked-by: Srikar Dronamraju <srikar@...ux.vnet.ibm.com>
Acked-by: Ananth N Mavinakayanahalli <ananth@...ibm.com>
Cc: Anton Arapov <anton@...hat.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@...radead.org>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20120615154344.GA9601@redhat.com
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@...nel.org>
---
 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 08ef566..2db1d94 100644
--- a/kernel/events/uprobes.c
+++ b/kernel/events/uprobes.c
@@ -641,10 +641,10 @@ static int copy_insn(struct uprobe *uprobe, struct file *filp)
 
 	/* Instruction at the page-boundary; copy bytes in second page */
 	if (nbytes < bytes) {
-		if (__copy_insn(mapping, filp, uprobe->arch.insn + nbytes,
-				bytes - nbytes, uprobe->offset + nbytes))
-			return -ENOMEM;
-
+		int err = __copy_insn(mapping, filp, uprobe->arch.insn + nbytes,
+				bytes - nbytes, uprobe->offset + nbytes);
+		if (err)
+			return err;
 		bytes = nbytes;
 	}
 	return __copy_insn(mapping, filp, uprobe->arch.insn, bytes, uprobe->offset);
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