Re: [PATCH 12/13] tracing/uprobes: Add more fetch functions

From: Oleg Nesterov
Date: Thu Oct 31 2013 - 14:24:18 EST


On 10/29, Namhyung Kim wrote:
>
> +static void __user *get_user_vaddr(unsigned long addr, struct trace_uprobe *tu)
> +{
> + unsigned long pgoff = addr >> PAGE_SHIFT;
> + struct vm_area_struct *vma;
> + struct address_space *mapping;
> + unsigned long vaddr = 0;
> +
> + if (tu == NULL) {
> + /* A NULL tu means that we already got the vaddr */
> + return (void __force __user *) addr;
> + }
> +
> + mapping = tu->inode->i_mapping;
> +
> + mutex_lock(&mapping->i_mmap_mutex);
> + vma_interval_tree_foreach(vma, &mapping->i_mmap, pgoff, pgoff) {
> + if (vma->vm_mm != current->mm)
> + continue;
> + if (!(vma->vm_flags & VM_READ))
> + continue;
> +
> + vaddr = offset_to_vaddr(vma, addr);
> + break;
> + }
> + mutex_unlock(&mapping->i_mmap_mutex);
> +
> + WARN_ON_ONCE(vaddr == 0);

Hmm. But unless I missed something this "addr" passed as an argument can
be wrong? And if nothing else this or another thread can unmap the vma?

Oleg.

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