linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 2/4] uprobes: Change unregister/apply to WARN() if uprobe/consumer is gone

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Message-ID: <87fvin54kq.fsf@sejong.aot.lge.com>
Date:	Mon, 30 Jun 2014 14:50:13 +0900
From:	Namhyung Kim <namhyung@...il.com>
To:	Oleg Nesterov <oleg@...hat.com>
Cc:	Steven Rostedt <rostedt@...dmis.org>,
	Masami Hiramatsu <masami.hiramatsu.pt@...achi.com>,
	Srikar Dronamraju <srikar@...ux.vnet.ibm.com>,
	Tom Zanussi <tom.zanussi@...ux.intel.com>,
	"zhangwei\(Jovi\)" <jovi.zhangwei@...wei.com>,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/4] uprobes: Change unregister/apply to WARN() if uprobe/consumer is gone

On Fri, 27 Jun 2014 19:01:40 +0200, Oleg Nesterov wrote:
> Add WARN_ON's into uprobe_unregister() and uprobe_apply() to ensure
> that nobody tries to play with the dead uprobe/consumer. This helps
> to catch the bugs like the one fixed by the previous patch.
>
> In the longer term we should fix this poorly designed interface.
> uprobe_register() should return "struct uprobe *" which should be
> passed to apply/unregister. Plus other semantic changes, see the
> changelog in commit 41ccba029e94.
>
> Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@...hat.com>

Acked-by: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@...nel.org>

Thanks,
Namhyung


> ---
>  kernel/events/uprobes.c |    6 +++---
>  1 files changed, 3 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/kernel/events/uprobes.c b/kernel/events/uprobes.c
> index c445e39..6f3254e 100644
> --- a/kernel/events/uprobes.c
> +++ b/kernel/events/uprobes.c
> @@ -846,7 +846,7 @@ static void __uprobe_unregister(struct uprobe *uprobe, struct uprobe_consumer *u
>  {
>  	int err;
>  
> -	if (!consumer_del(uprobe, uc))	/* WARN? */
> +	if (WARN_ON(!consumer_del(uprobe, uc)))
>  		return;
>  
>  	err = register_for_each_vma(uprobe, NULL);
> @@ -927,7 +927,7 @@ int uprobe_apply(struct inode *inode, loff_t offset,
>  	int ret = -ENOENT;
>  
>  	uprobe = find_uprobe(inode, offset);
> -	if (!uprobe)
> +	if (WARN_ON(!uprobe))
>  		return ret;
>  
>  	down_write(&uprobe->register_rwsem);
> @@ -952,7 +952,7 @@ void uprobe_unregister(struct inode *inode, loff_t offset, struct uprobe_consume
>  	struct uprobe *uprobe;
>  
>  	uprobe = find_uprobe(inode, offset);
> -	if (!uprobe)
> +	if (WARN_ON(!uprobe))
>  		return;
>  
>  	down_write(&uprobe->register_rwsem);
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