Commit-ID: 869ae76147ffdf21ad24f0e599303cd58a2bb39f
Gitweb: http://git.kernel.org/tip/869ae76147ffdf21ad24f0e599303cd58a2bb39f
Author: Oleg Nesterov <[email protected]>
AuthorDate: Sat, 27 Feb 2016 23:11:28 +0100
Committer: Ingo Molnar <[email protected]>
CommitDate: Mon, 29 Feb 2016 08:47:51 +0100
uprobes: __create_xol_area() must nullify xol_mapping.fault
As Jiri pointed out, this recent commit:
f872f5400cc0 ("mm: Add a vm_special_mapping.fault() method")
breaks uprobes: __create_xol_area() doesn't initialize the new ->fault()
method and this obviously leads to kernel crash when the application
tries to execute the probed insn after bp hit.
We probably want to add uprobes_special_mapping_fault(), this allows to
turn xol_area->xol_mapping into a single instance of vm_special_mapping.
But we need a simple fix, so lets change __create_xol() to nullify the
new member as Jiri suggests.
Suggested-by: Jiri Olsa <[email protected]>
Reported-by: Jiri Olsa <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov <[email protected]>
Cc: Andy Lutomirski <[email protected]>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <[email protected]>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <[email protected]>
Cc: Pratyush Anand <[email protected]>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <[email protected]>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/[email protected]
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <[email protected]>
---
kernel/events/uprobes.c | 1 +
1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)
diff --git a/kernel/events/uprobes.c b/kernel/events/uprobes.c
index 0167679..5f6ce93 100644
--- a/kernel/events/uprobes.c
+++ b/kernel/events/uprobes.c
@@ -1178,6 +1178,7 @@ static struct xol_area *__create_xol_area(unsigned long
vaddr)
goto free_area;
area->xol_mapping.name = "[uprobes]";
+ area->xol_mapping.fault = NULL;
area->xol_mapping.pages = area->pages;
area->pages[0] = alloc_page(GFP_HIGHUSER);
if (!area->pages[0])
