From 7fa3134817d3cc813aeba9acc7e284f2f535f1f5 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Oleg Nesterov Date: Fri, 16 May 2014 16:23:18 +0200 Subject: [PATCH] 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 Acked-by: Srikar Dronamraju Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov --- kernel/events/uprobes.c | 6 +++--- 1 file 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; -- 2.20.1