uprobes: Don't recheck vma/f_mapping in write_opcode()
authorOleg Nesterov <[email protected]>
Sun, 29 Jul 2012 18:22:12 +0000 (20:22 +0200)
committerIngo Molnar <[email protected]>
Mon, 30 Jul 2012 09:27:18 +0000 (11:27 +0200)
write_opcode() rechecks valid_vma() and ->f_mapping, this is
pointless. The caller, register_for_each_vma() or uprobe_mmap(),
has already done these checks under mmap_sem.

To clarify, uprobe_mmap() checks valid_vma() only, but we can
rely on build_probe_list(vm_file->f_mapping->host).

Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov <[email protected]>
Acked-by: Srikar Dronamraju <srikar.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Anton Arapov <[email protected]>
Cc: Srikar Dronamraju <[email protected]>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/[email protected]
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <[email protected]>
kernel/events/uprobes.c

index f93532748bca38340f0f2d196b54324a03590480..a2b32a51d0a2b60ff593b235efbfdb9ef6715e46 100644 (file)
@@ -206,33 +206,16 @@ static int write_opcode(struct arch_uprobe *auprobe, struct mm_struct *mm,
                        unsigned long vaddr, uprobe_opcode_t opcode)
 {
        struct page *old_page, *new_page;
-       struct address_space *mapping;
        void *vaddr_old, *vaddr_new;
        struct vm_area_struct *vma;
-       struct uprobe *uprobe;
        int ret;
+
 retry:
        /* Read the page with vaddr into memory */
        ret = get_user_pages(NULL, mm, vaddr, 1, 0, 0, &old_page, &vma);
        if (ret <= 0)
                return ret;
 
-       ret = -EINVAL;
-
-       /*
-        * We are interested in text pages only. Our pages of interest
-        * should be mapped for read and execute only. We desist from
-        * adding probes in write mapped pages since the breakpoints
-        * might end up in the file copy.
-        */
-       if (!valid_vma(vma, is_swbp_insn(&opcode)))
-               goto put_out;
-
-       uprobe = container_of(auprobe, struct uprobe, arch);
-       mapping = uprobe->inode->i_mapping;
-       if (mapping != vma->vm_file->f_mapping)
-               goto put_out;
-
        ret = -ENOMEM;
        new_page = alloc_page_vma(GFP_HIGHUSER_MOVABLE, vma, vaddr);
        if (!new_page)