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Re: [PATCH -tip tracing/kprobes 3/6] kprobes/x86: Fix to add __kprobes to in-kernel fault handing functions
- From: Masami Hiramatsu <mhiramat at redhat dot com>
- To: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec at gmail dot com>
- Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo at elte dot hu>, lkml <linux-kernel at vger dot kernel dot org>, systemtap <systemtap at sources dot redhat dot com>, DLE <dle-develop at lists dot sourceforge dot net>, Ananth N Mavinakayanahalli <ananth at in dot ibm dot com>
- Date: Sat, 29 Aug 2009 22:43:33 -0400
- Subject: Re: [PATCH -tip tracing/kprobes 3/6] kprobes/x86: Fix to add __kprobes to in-kernel fault handing functions
- References: <20090827152539.GE6058@nowhere> <20090827172311.8246.92725.stgit@localhost.localdomain> <20090830005008.GA387@nowhere>
Frederic Weisbecker wrote:
> On Thu, Aug 27, 2009 at 01:23:11PM -0400, Masami Hiramatsu wrote:
>> Add __kprobes to the functions which handles in-kernel fixable page faults.
>> Since kprobes can cause those in-kernel page faults by accessing kprobe data
>> structures, probing those fault functions will cause fault-int3-loop
>> (do_page_fault has already been marked as __kprobes).
>>
>> Signed-off-by: Masami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@redhat.com>
>> Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
>> Cc: Ananth N Mavinakayanahalli <ananth@in.ibm.com>
>> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
>> ---
>>
>> arch/x86/mm/fault.c | 11 ++++++-----
>> 1 files changed, 6 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-)
>>
>> diff --git a/arch/x86/mm/fault.c b/arch/x86/mm/fault.c
>> index bfae139..c322e59 100644
>> --- a/arch/x86/mm/fault.c
>> +++ b/arch/x86/mm/fault.c
>> @@ -38,7 +38,8 @@ enum x86_pf_error_code {
>> * Returns 0 if mmiotrace is disabled, or if the fault is not
>> * handled by mmiotrace:
>> */
>> -static inline int kmmio_fault(struct pt_regs *regs, unsigned long addr)
>> +static inline int __kprobes
>> +kmmio_fault(struct pt_regs *regs, unsigned long addr)
>> {
>> if (unlikely(is_kmmio_active()))
>> if (kmmio_handler(regs, addr) == 1)
>
>
> I guess the problem also resides in a lot of subfunctions such as kmmio_handler
> and such...
Hmm, sure.
kmmio functions should be marked as __kprobes( or __kmmio or __debug? :)).
Thank you,
>> @@ -46,7 +47,7 @@ static inline int kmmio_fault(struct pt_regs *regs, unsigned long addr)
>> return 0;
>> }
>>
>> -static inline int notify_page_fault(struct pt_regs *regs)
>> +static inline int __kprobes notify_page_fault(struct pt_regs *regs)
>> {
>> int ret = 0;
>>
>> @@ -239,7 +240,7 @@ void vmalloc_sync_all(void)
>> *
>> * Handle a fault on the vmalloc or module mapping area
>> */
>> -static noinline int vmalloc_fault(unsigned long address)
>> +static noinline __kprobes int vmalloc_fault(unsigned long address)
>> {
>> unsigned long pgd_paddr;
>> pmd_t *pmd_k;
>> @@ -361,7 +362,7 @@ void vmalloc_sync_all(void)
>> *
>> * This assumes no large pages in there.
>> */
>> -static noinline int vmalloc_fault(unsigned long address)
>> +static noinline __kprobes int vmalloc_fault(unsigned long address)
>> {
>> pgd_t *pgd, *pgd_ref;
>> pud_t *pud, *pud_ref;
>> @@ -858,7 +859,7 @@ static int spurious_fault_check(unsigned long error_code, pte_t *pte)
>> * There are no security implications to leaving a stale TLB when
>> * increasing the permissions on a page.
>> */
>> -static noinline int
>> +static noinline __kprobes int
>> spurious_fault(unsigned long error_code, unsigned long address)
>> {
>> pgd_t *pgd;
>>
>>
>> --
>> Masami Hiramatsu
>>
>> Software Engineer
>> Hitachi Computer Products (America), Inc.
>> Software Solutions Division
>>
>> e-mail: mhiramat@redhat.com
>
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Masami Hiramatsu
Software Engineer
Hitachi Computer Products (America), Inc.
Software Solutions Division
e-mail: mhiramat@redhat.com