From a3d7bb47937b3a40b9f0c75655e97b3bb6407cbe Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Oleg Nesterov Date: Tue, 29 May 2012 21:27:59 +0200 Subject: [PATCH] uprobes: Change read_opcode() to use FOLL_FORCE set_orig_insn()->read_opcode() should not fail if the probed task did mprotect() after uprobe_register(), change it to use FOLL_FORCE. Without FOLL_WRITE this doesn't have any "side" effect but allows to read the !VM_READ memory. There is another reason for this change, we are going to use is_swbp_at_addr() from handle_swbp() which can race with another thread doing mprotect(). Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov Acked-by: Srikar Dronamraju Cc: Ananth N Mavinakayanahalli Cc: Anton Arapov Cc: Linus Torvalds Cc: Masami Hiramatsu Cc: Peter Zijlstra Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20120529192759.GB8057@redhat.com Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar --- kernel/events/uprobes.c | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/kernel/events/uprobes.c b/kernel/events/uprobes.c index d0f5ec0dcdea..a0dbc87a2ec6 100644 --- a/kernel/events/uprobes.c +++ b/kernel/events/uprobes.c @@ -312,7 +312,7 @@ static int read_opcode(struct mm_struct *mm, unsigned long vaddr, uprobe_opcode_ void *vaddr_new; int ret; - ret = get_user_pages(NULL, mm, vaddr, 1, 0, 0, &page, NULL); + ret = get_user_pages(NULL, mm, vaddr, 1, 0, 1, &page, NULL); if (ret <= 0) return ret;