Re: [PATCH] uprobes/core: handle breakpoint and signal stepexception.

From: Ingo Molnar
Date: Thu Mar 08 2012 - 08:48:40 EST



* Srikar Dronamraju <srikar@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> @@ -233,9 +233,11 @@ static inline void __user *arch_compat_alloc_user_space(long len)
>
> if (test_thread_flag(TIF_IA32)) {
> sp = task_pt_regs(current)->sp;
> +#ifdef CONFIG_X86_64
> } else {
> /* -128 for the x32 ABI redzone */
> sp = __this_cpu_read(old_rsp) - 128;
> +#endif
> }
>
> return (void __user *)round_down(sp - len, 16);

So 'sp' is undefined if that TIF check fails?

Also, on a 32-bit kernel the TIF check probably fails all the
time, because we don't set TIF_IA32 (and don't know that flag).

It would probably be better to make the whole helper inline
#ifdef 64-bit, it does not look very useful on 32-bit.

Thanks,

Ingo
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