linux-kernel - [PATCH] uprobes: Ignore unsupported instructions in uprobe

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Date:	Thu, 2 Aug 2012 15:35:15 +0530
From:	Srikar Dronamraju <srikar@...ux.vnet.ibm.com>
To:	Oleg Nesterov <oleg@...hat.com>
Cc:	Ingo Molnar <mingo@...e.hu>, Anton Arapov <anton@...hat.com>,
	"Frank Ch. Eigler" <fche@...hat.com>,
	Peter Zijlstra <peterz@...radead.org>,
	William Cohen <wcohen@...hat.com>, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: [PATCH] uprobes: Ignore unsupported instructions in uprobe_mmap

uprobe_mmap()->install_breakpoint() can fail if the probed insn is not
supported (remember, uprobe_register() succeeds if nobody mmaps
inode/offset). Failure in uprobe_mmap() causes mmap_region/do_fork to
fail too.

However failing mmap_region()/do_fork() because of a probe on an
unsupported instruction is wrong.

Hence change uprobe_mmap() to ignore unsupported instructions.

Oleg Nesterov analyzed the root cause of this problem.

While at it, add a missing put_uprobe() in the path where uprobe_mmap()
races with uprobe_unregister().

Reported-by: William Cohen <wcohen@...hat.com>
Signed-off-by: Srikar Dronamraju <srikar@...ux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@...hat.com>
Cc: <stable@...r.kernel.org> # v3.5
---
 kernel/events/uprobes.c |   13 ++++++++++++-
 1 files changed, 12 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-)

diff --git a/kernel/events/uprobes.c b/kernel/events/uprobes.c
index c08a22d..c8a8c39 100644
--- a/kernel/events/uprobes.c
+++ b/kernel/events/uprobes.c
@@ -1051,8 +1051,10 @@ int uprobe_mmap(struct vm_area_struct *vma)
 			if (ret == -EEXIST) {
 				ret = 0;
 
-				if (!is_swbp_at_addr(vma->vm_mm, vaddr))
+				if (!is_swbp_at_addr(vma->vm_mm, vaddr)) {
+					put_uprobe(uprobe);
 					continue;
+				}
 
 				/*
 				 * Unable to insert a breakpoint, but
@@ -1060,6 +1062,15 @@ int uprobe_mmap(struct vm_area_struct *vma)
 				 * probe count.
 				 */
 				atomic_inc(&vma->vm_mm->uprobes_state.count);
+			} else if (ret == -ENOTSUPP) {
+				/*
+				 * A probe at unsupported instruction
+				 * shouldnt cause mmap_region() / do_fork()
+				 * to fail.
+				 */
+				ret = 0;
+				put_uprobe(uprobe);
+				continue;
 			}
 
 			if (!ret)

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