This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled
kprobes: return proper error code from register_kprobe()
to the 3.0-stable tree which can be found at:
http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/stable/stable-queue.git;a=summary
The filename of the patch is:
kprobes-return-proper-error-code-from-register_kprobe.patch
and it can be found in the queue-3.0 subdirectory.
If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree,
please let <[email protected]> know about it.
>From f986a499ef6f317d906e6f6f281be966e1237a10 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Prashanth Nageshappa <[email protected]>
Date: Mon, 5 Mar 2012 14:59:12 -0800
Subject: kprobes: return proper error code from register_kprobe()
From: Prashanth Nageshappa <[email protected]>
commit f986a499ef6f317d906e6f6f281be966e1237a10 upstream.
register_kprobe() aborts if the address of the new request falls in a
prohibited area (such as ftrace pouch, __kprobes annotated functions,
non-kernel text addresses, jump label text). We however don't return the
right error on this abort, resulting in a silent failure - incorrect
adding/reporting of kprobes ('perf probe do_fork+18' or 'perf probe
mcount' for instance).
In V2 we are incorporating Masami Hiramatsu's feedback.
This patch fixes it by returning -EINVAL upon failure.
While we are here, rename the label used for exit to be more appropriate.
Signed-off-by: Ananth N Mavinakayanahalli <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Prashanth K Nageshappa <[email protected]>
Acked-by: Masami Hiramatsu <[email protected]>
Cc: Jason Baron <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <[email protected]>
---
kernel/kprobes.c | 12 +++++++-----
1 file changed, 7 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-)
--- a/kernel/kprobes.c
+++ b/kernel/kprobes.c
@@ -1324,8 +1324,10 @@ int __kprobes register_kprobe(struct kpr
if (!kernel_text_address((unsigned long) p->addr) ||
in_kprobes_functions((unsigned long) p->addr) ||
ftrace_text_reserved(p->addr, p->addr) ||
- jump_label_text_reserved(p->addr, p->addr))
- goto fail_with_jump_label;
+ jump_label_text_reserved(p->addr, p->addr)) {
+ ret = -EINVAL;
+ goto cannot_probe;
+ }
/* User can pass only KPROBE_FLAG_DISABLED to register_kprobe */
p->flags &= KPROBE_FLAG_DISABLED;
@@ -1340,7 +1342,7 @@ int __kprobes register_kprobe(struct kpr
* its code to prohibit unexpected unloading.
*/
if (unlikely(!try_module_get(probed_mod)))
- goto fail_with_jump_label;
+ goto cannot_probe;
/*
* If the module freed .init.text, we couldn't insert
@@ -1349,7 +1351,7 @@ int __kprobes register_kprobe(struct kpr
if (within_module_init((unsigned long)p->addr, probed_mod) &&
probed_mod->state != MODULE_STATE_COMING) {
module_put(probed_mod);
- goto fail_with_jump_label;
+ goto cannot_probe;
}
}
preempt_enable();
@@ -1396,7 +1398,7 @@ out:
return ret;
-fail_with_jump_label:
+cannot_probe:
preempt_enable();
jump_label_unlock();
return -EINVAL;
Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from
[email protected] are
queue-3.0/kprobes-return-proper-error-code-from-register_kprobe.patch
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