linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v2 11/11] uprobes/x86: Make arch_uretprobe_is_alive(RP_CHECK

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Date:	Fri, 10 Jul 2015 17:37:15 +0530
From:	Srikar Dronamraju <srikar@...ux.vnet.ibm.com>
To:	Oleg Nesterov <oleg@...hat.com>
Cc:	Ananth Mavinakayanahalli <ananth@...ibm.com>,
	Anton Arapov <arapov@...il.com>,
	David Long <dave.long@...aro.org>,
	Denys Vlasenko <dvlasenk@...hat.com>,
	"Frank Ch. Eigler" <fche@...hat.com>,
	Ingo Molnar <mingo@...nel.org>,
	Jan Willeke <willeke@...ibm.com>,
	Jim Keniston <jkenisto@...ibm.com>,
	Mark Wielaard <mjw@...hat.com>,
	Pratyush Anand <panand@...hat.com>,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 11/11] uprobes/x86: Make
 arch_uretprobe_is_alive(RP_CHECK_CALL) more clever

> If you ret-probe func_1() and func_2() prepare_uretprobe() hits the
> MAX_URETPROBE_DEPTH limit and "return" from func_2() is not reported.
> 
> When we know that the new call is not chained, we can do the more
> strict check. In this case "sp" points to the new ret-addr, so every
> frame which uses the same "sp" must be dead. The only complication is
> that arch_uretprobe_is_alive() needs to know was it chained or not, so
> we add the new RP_CHECK_CHAIN_CALL enum and change prepare_uretprobe()
> to pass RP_CHECK_CALL only if !chained.
> 
> Note: arch_uretprobe_is_alive() could also re-read *sp and check if
> this word is still trampoline_vaddr. This could obviously improve the
> logic, but I would like to avoid another copy_from_user() especially
> in the case when we can't avoid the false "alive == T" positives.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@...hat.com>

Looks good to me.

Acked-by: Srikar Dronamraju <srikar@...ux.vnet.ibm.com>

-- 
Thanks and Regards
Srikar Dronamraju

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