linux-kernel - [PATCH v3 09/14] uprobes: Change prepare_uretprobe() to (try to) flush the dead frames

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Message-ID: <20150721134023.GA4776@redhat.com>
Date:	Tue, 21 Jul 2015 15:40:23 +0200
From:	Oleg Nesterov <oleg@...hat.com>
To:	Ingo Molnar <mingo@...nel.org>
Cc:	Andy Lutomirski <luto@...capital.net>,
	Pratyush Anand <panand@...hat.com>,
	Srikar Dronamraju <srikar@...ux.vnet.ibm.com>,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: [PATCH v3 09/14] uprobes: Change prepare_uretprobe() to (try to)
	flush the dead frames

Change prepare_uretprobe() to flush the !arch_uretprobe_is_alive()
return_instance's. This is not needed correctness-wise, but can help
to avoid the failure caused by MAX_URETPROBE_DEPTH.

Note: in this case arch_uretprobe_is_alive() can be false positive,
the stack can grow after longjmp(). Unfortunately, the kernel can't
100% solve this problem, but see the next patch.

Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@...hat.com>
Acked-by: Srikar Dronamraju <srikar@...ux.vnet.ibm.com>
Acked-by: Anton Arapov <arapov@...il.com>
Tested-by: Pratyush Anand <panand@...hat.com>
---
 kernel/events/uprobes.c |   13 +++++++++++++
 1 files changed, 13 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-)

diff --git a/kernel/events/uprobes.c b/kernel/events/uprobes.c
index 93d939c..7e61c8c 100644
--- a/kernel/events/uprobes.c
+++ b/kernel/events/uprobes.c
@@ -1511,6 +1511,16 @@ static unsigned long get_trampoline_vaddr(void)
 	return trampoline_vaddr;
 }
 
+static void cleanup_return_instances(struct uprobe_task *utask, struct pt_regs *regs)
+{
+	struct return_instance *ri = utask->return_instances;
+	while (ri && !arch_uretprobe_is_alive(ri, regs)) {
+		ri = free_ret_instance(ri);
+		utask->depth--;
+	}
+	utask->return_instances = ri;
+}
+
 static void prepare_uretprobe(struct uprobe *uprobe, struct pt_regs *regs)
 {
 	struct return_instance *ri;
@@ -1541,6 +1551,9 @@ static void prepare_uretprobe(struct uprobe *uprobe, struct pt_regs *regs)
 	if (orig_ret_vaddr == -1)
 		goto fail;
 
+	/* drop the entries invalidated by longjmp() */
+	cleanup_return_instances(utask, regs);
+
 	/*
 	 * We don't want to keep trampoline address in stack, rather keep the
 	 * original return address of first caller thru all the consequent
-- 
1.5.5.1

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