From 9a556ab998071457e79b319f2527642dd6e50617 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Masami Hiramatsu Date: Thu, 14 Mar 2013 20:52:43 +0900 Subject: kprobes/x86: Check Interrupt Flag modifier when registering probe Currently kprobes check whether the copied instruction modifies IF (interrupt flag) on each probe hit. This results not only in introducing overhead but also involving inat_get_opcode_attribute into the kprobes hot path, and it can cause an infinite recursive call (and kernel panic in the end). Actually, since the copied instruction itself can never be modified on the buffer, it is needless to analyze the instruction on every probe hit. To fix this issue, we check it only once when registering probe and store the result on ainsn->if_modifier. Reported-by: Timo Juhani Lindfors Signed-off-by: Masami Hiramatsu Acked-by: Ananth N Mavinakayanahalli Cc: yrl.pp-manager.tt@hitachi.com Cc: Steven Rostedt Cc: David S. Miller Cc: Linus Torvalds Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20130314115242.19690.33573.stgit@mhiramat-M0-7522 Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar --- arch/x86/include/asm/kprobes.h | 1 + 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+) (limited to 'arch/x86/include/asm/kprobes.h') diff --git a/arch/x86/include/asm/kprobes.h b/arch/x86/include/asm/kprobes.h index d3ddd17405d..5a6d2873f80 100644 --- a/arch/x86/include/asm/kprobes.h +++ b/arch/x86/include/asm/kprobes.h @@ -77,6 +77,7 @@ struct arch_specific_insn { * a post_handler or break_handler). */ int boostable; + bool if_modifier; }; struct arch_optimized_insn { -- cgit v1.2.3-70-g09d2