linux/kernel/events
Oleg Nesterov 647c42dfd4 uprobes: Kill uprobes_state->count
uprobes_state->count is only needed to avoid the slow path in
uprobe_pre_sstep_notifier(). It is also checked in uprobe_munmap()
but ironically its only goal to decrement this counter. However,
it is very broken. Just some examples:

- uprobe_mmap() can race with uprobe_unregister() and wrongly
  increment the counter if it hits the non-uprobe "int3". Note
  that install_breakpoint() checks ->consumers first and returns
  -EEXIST if it is NULL.

  "atomic_sub() if error" in uprobe_mmap() looks obviously wrong
  too.

- uprobe_munmap() can race with uprobe_register() and wrongly
  decrement the counter by the same reason.

- Suppose an appication tries to increase the mmapped area via
  sys_mremap(). vma_adjust() does uprobe_munmap(whole_vma) first,
  this can nullify the counter temporarily and race with another
  thread which can hit the bp, the application will be killed by
  SIGTRAP.

- Suppose an application mmaps 2 consecutive areas in the same file
  and one (or both) of these areas has uprobes. In the likely case
  mmap_region()->vma_merge() suceeds. Like above, this leads to
  uprobe_munmap/uprobe_mmap from vma_merge()->vma_adjust() but then
  mmap_region() does another uprobe_mmap(resulting_vma) and doubles
  the counter.

This patch only removes this counter and fixes the compile errors,
then we will try to cleanup the changed code and add something else
instead.

Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Srikar Dronamraju <srikar@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
2012-08-28 18:21:16 +02:00
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callchain.c perf: Add attribute to filter out callchains 2012-08-10 12:40:57 -03:00
core.c perf: Add ability to attach user stack dump to sample 2012-08-10 12:17:58 -03:00
hw_breakpoint.c Merge branch 'x86/cleanups' into perf/uprobes 2012-03-13 16:33:03 +01:00
internal.h perf: Add ability to attach user stack dump to sample 2012-08-10 12:17:58 -03:00
Makefile uprobes: Move to kernel/events/ 2012-02-22 11:08:00 +01:00
ring_buffer.c perf: Add perf_output_skip function to skip bytes in sample 2012-08-10 12:16:22 -03:00
uprobes.c uprobes: Kill uprobes_state->count 2012-08-28 18:21:16 +02:00