From eb3a72921c8276bf2cd028a458bb83435f16c91c Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Keshavamurthy Anil S Date: Wed, 11 Jan 2006 12:17:42 -0800 Subject: [PATCH] kprobes: fix race in recovery of reentrant probe There is a window where a probe gets removed right after the probe is hit on some different cpu. In this case probe handlers can't find a matching probe instance related to break address. In this case we need to read the original instruction at break address to see if that is not a break/int3 instruction and recover safely. Previous code had a bug where we were not checking for the above race in case of reentrant probes and the below patch fixes this race. Tested on IA64, Powerpc, x86_64. Signed-off-by: Anil S Keshavamurthy Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds --- arch/ia64/kernel/kprobes.c | 7 +++++++ 1 file changed, 7 insertions(+) (limited to 'arch/ia64') diff --git a/arch/ia64/kernel/kprobes.c b/arch/ia64/kernel/kprobes.c index 4de7f675909..346fedf9ea4 100644 --- a/arch/ia64/kernel/kprobes.c +++ b/arch/ia64/kernel/kprobes.c @@ -638,6 +638,13 @@ static int __kprobes pre_kprobes_handler(struct die_args *args) if (p->break_handler && p->break_handler(p, regs)) { goto ss_probe; } + } else if (!is_ia64_break_inst(regs)) { + /* The breakpoint instruction was removed by + * another cpu right after we hit, no further + * handling of this interrupt is appropriate + */ + ret = 1; + goto no_kprobe; } else { /* Not our break */ goto no_kprobe; -- cgit v1.2.3