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author | Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com> | 2014-04-03 20:52:19 +0200 |
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committer | Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com> | 2014-04-17 21:58:21 +0200 |
commit | 75f9ef0b7f1aae33b7be7ba8d9c23c8cb48c2212 (patch) | |
tree | 03457632d08201ad36fc5742fda54695b0073f31 /kernel/panic.c | |
parent | 014940bad8e46ca7bd0483f760f9cba60088a3d4 (diff) |
uprobes/x86: Teach arch_uprobe_post_xol() to restart if possible
SIGILL after the failed arch_uprobe_post_xol() should only be used as
a last resort, we should try to restart the probed insn if possible.
Currently only adjust_ret_addr() can fail, and this can only happen if
another thread unmapped our stack after we executed "call" out-of-line.
Most probably the application if buggy, but even in this case it can
have a handler for SIGSEGV/etc. And in theory it can be even correct
and do something non-trivial with its memory.
Of course we can't restart unconditionally, so arch_uprobe_post_xol()
does this only if ->post_xol() returns -ERESTART even if currently this
is the only possible error.
default_post_xol_op(UPROBE_FIX_CALL) can always restart, but as Jim
pointed out it should not forget to pop off the return address pushed
by this insn executed out-of-line.
Note: this is not "perfect", we do not want the extra handler_chain()
after restart, but I think this is the best solution we can realistically
do without too much uglifications.
Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Masami Hiramatsu <masami.hiramatsu.pt@hitachi.com>
Reviewed-by: Jim Keniston <jkenisto@us.ibm.com>
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