(2014/07/28 21:20), Wang Nan wrote: > This patch frees optinsn slot when range check error to prevent memory > leaks. Before this patch, cache entry in kprobe_insn_cache won't be > freed if kprobe optimizing fails due to range check failure. > > Signed-off-by: Wang Nan <[email protected]>
Oops, thank you for finding it! Acked-by: Masami Hiramatsu <[email protected]> BTW, would you really have hit this error? I'd like to know the case if this really happens. > --- > arch/x86/kernel/kprobes/opt.c | 4 +++- > 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) > > diff --git a/arch/x86/kernel/kprobes/opt.c b/arch/x86/kernel/kprobes/opt.c > index f304773..f1314d0 100644 > --- a/arch/x86/kernel/kprobes/opt.c > +++ b/arch/x86/kernel/kprobes/opt.c > @@ -338,8 +338,10 @@ int arch_prepare_optimized_kprobe(struct > optimized_kprobe *op) > * a relative jump. > */ > rel = (long)op->optinsn.insn - (long)op->kp.addr + RELATIVEJUMP_SIZE; > - if (abs(rel) > 0x7fffffff) > + if (abs(rel) > 0x7fffffff) { > + __arch_remove_optimized_kprobe(op, 0); > return -ERANGE; > + } > > buf = (u8 *)op->optinsn.insn; > > -- Masami HIRAMATSU Software Platform Research Dept. Linux Technology Research Center Hitachi, Ltd., Yokohama Research Laboratory E-mail: [email protected] -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [email protected] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/

