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authorOleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>2014-05-16 16:23:18 +0200
committerOleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>2014-06-02 15:54:45 +0200
commit7fa3134817d3cc813aeba9acc7e284f2f535f1f5 (patch)
tree34ea0769ebf4fbf803ac4e7ecef9c808cd92a1d4
parenta03b1e1c372b60183b8141cdd161316429fab5ac (diff)
uprobes: Shift ->readpage check from __copy_insn() to uprobe_register()
copy_insn() fails with -EIO if ->readpage == NULL, but this error is not propagated unless uprobe_register() path finds ->mm which already mmaps this file. In this case (say) "perf record" does not actually install the probe, but the user can't know about this. Move this check into uprobe_register() so that this problem can be detected earlier and reported to user. Note: this is still not perfect, - copy_insn() and arch_uprobe_analyze_insn() should be called by uprobe_register() but this is not simple, we need vm_file for read_mapping_page() (although perhaps we can pass NULL), and we need ->mm for is_64bit_mm() (although this logic is broken anyway). - uprobe_register() should be called by create_trace_uprobe(), not by probe_event_enable(), so that an error can be detected at "perf probe -x" time. This also needs more changes in the core uprobe code, uprobe register/unregister interface was poorly designed from the very beginning. Reported-by: Denys Vlasenko <dvlasenk@redhat.com> Acked-by: Srikar Dronamraju <srikar@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>
-rw-r--r--kernel/events/uprobes.c6
1 files changed, 3 insertions, 3 deletions
diff --git a/kernel/events/uprobes.c b/kernel/events/uprobes.c
index 3b02c72938a8..c56b13e3b5e1 100644
--- a/kernel/events/uprobes.c
+++ b/kernel/events/uprobes.c
@@ -536,9 +536,6 @@ static int __copy_insn(struct address_space *mapping, struct file *filp,
void *insn, int nbytes, loff_t offset)
{
struct page *page;
-
- if (!mapping->a_ops->readpage)
- return -EIO;
/*
* Ensure that the page that has the original instruction is
* populated and in page-cache.
@@ -879,6 +876,9 @@ int uprobe_register(struct inode *inode, loff_t offset, struct uprobe_consumer *
if (!uc->handler && !uc->ret_handler)
return -EINVAL;
+ /* copy_insn()->read_mapping_page() needs ->readpage() */
+ if (!inode->i_mapping->a_ops->readpage)
+ return -EIO;
/* Racy, just to catch the obvious mistakes */
if (offset > i_size_read(inode))
return -EINVAL;