uprobes: Restrict valid_vma(false) to skip VM_SHARED vmas
authorOleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>
Sun, 16 Sep 2012 17:31:39 +0000 (19:31 +0200)
committerOleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>
Sat, 29 Sep 2012 19:21:54 +0000 (21:21 +0200)
valid_vma(false) ignores ->vm_flags, this is not actually right.
We should never try to write into MAP_SHARED mapping, this can
confuse an apllication which actually writes to ->vm_file.

With this patch valid_vma(false) ignores VM_WRITE only but checks
other (immutable) bits checked by valid_vma(true). This can also
speedup uprobe_munmap() and uprobe_unregister().

Note: even after this patch _unregister can confuse the probed
application if it does mprotect(PROT_WRITE) after _register and
installs "int3", but this is hardly possible to avoid and this
doesn't differ from gdb case.

Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Srikar Dronamraju <srikar@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
kernel/events/uprobes.c

index a9de408153915b638116b9330f99ae7267c95c4c..8d182bdecc2e20f6d514b5dc1262e51fed92c9ab 100644 (file)
@@ -100,17 +100,12 @@ struct uprobe {
  */
 static bool valid_vma(struct vm_area_struct *vma, bool is_register)
 {
-       if (!vma->vm_file)
-               return false;
-
-       if (!is_register)
-               return true;
+       vm_flags_t flags = VM_HUGETLB | VM_MAYEXEC | VM_SHARED;
 
-       if ((vma->vm_flags & (VM_HUGETLB | VM_WRITE | VM_MAYEXEC | VM_SHARED))
-                               == VM_MAYEXEC)
-               return true;
+       if (is_register)
+               flags |= VM_WRITE;
 
-       return false;
+       return vma->vm_file && (vma->vm_flags & flags) == VM_MAYEXEC;
 }
 
 static unsigned long offset_to_vaddr(struct vm_area_struct *vma, loff_t offset)