prevent kprobes from catching spurious page faults
authorMasami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@redhat.com>
Thu, 5 Feb 2009 22:12:39 +0000 (17:12 -0500)
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Fri, 6 Feb 2009 01:01:50 +0000 (17:01 -0800)
Prevent kprobes from catching spurious faults which will cause infinite
recursive page-fault and memory corruption by stack overflow.

Signed-off-by: Masami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@redhat.com>
Cc: <stable@kernel.org> [2.6.28.x]
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
arch/x86/mm/fault.c

index 90dfae511a41e1dcf7fcf188b94d13c123780606..c76ef1d701c9f48625aed06d4e7b4ec3d98e8862 100644 (file)
@@ -603,8 +603,6 @@ void __kprobes do_page_fault(struct pt_regs *regs, unsigned long error_code)
 
        si_code = SEGV_MAPERR;
 
-       if (notify_page_fault(regs))
-               return;
        if (unlikely(kmmio_fault(regs, address)))
                return;
 
@@ -634,6 +632,9 @@ void __kprobes do_page_fault(struct pt_regs *regs, unsigned long error_code)
                if (spurious_fault(address, error_code))
                        return;
 
+               /* kprobes don't want to hook the spurious faults. */
+               if (notify_page_fault(regs))
+                       return;
                /*
                 * Don't take the mm semaphore here. If we fixup a prefetch
                 * fault we could otherwise deadlock.
@@ -641,6 +642,9 @@ void __kprobes do_page_fault(struct pt_regs *regs, unsigned long error_code)
                goto bad_area_nosemaphore;
        }
 
+       /* kprobes don't want to hook the spurious faults. */
+       if (notify_page_fault(regs))
+               return;
 
        /*
         * It's safe to allow irq's after cr2 has been saved and the