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* [BUGFIX PATCH bpf-next] error-injection: Fix to prohibit jump optimization
@ 2018-03-12 10:00 Masami Hiramatsu
  2018-03-12 10:27 ` Masami Hiramatsu
  0 siblings, 1 reply; 5+ messages in thread
From: Masami Hiramatsu @ 2018-03-12 10:00 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: Alexei Starovoitov, Josef Bacik
  Cc: rostedt, mingo, davem, netdev, linux-kernel, ast, kernel-team,
	daniel, linux-btrfs, darrick.wong, mhiramat, Josef Bacik,
	Akinobu Mita

Since the kprobe which was optimized by jump can not change
the execution path, the kprobe for error-injection must not
be optimized. To prohibit it, set a dummy post-handler as
officially stated in Documentation/kprobes.txt.

Fixes: 4b1a29a7f542 ("error-injection: Support fault injection framework")
Signed-off-by: Masami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@kernel.org>
---
 kernel/fail_function.c |   10 ++++++++++
 1 file changed, 10 insertions(+)

diff --git a/kernel/fail_function.c b/kernel/fail_function.c
index 21b0122cb39c..1d5632d8bbcc 100644
--- a/kernel/fail_function.c
+++ b/kernel/fail_function.c
@@ -14,6 +14,15 @@
 
 static int fei_kprobe_handler(struct kprobe *kp, struct pt_regs *regs);
 
+static void fei_post_handler(struct kprobe *kp, struct pt_regs *regs,
+			     unsigned long flags)
+{
+	/*
+	 * A dummy post handler is required to prohibit optimizing, because
+	 * jump optimization does not support execution path overriding.
+	 */
+}
+
 struct fei_attr {
 	struct list_head list;
 	struct kprobe kp;
@@ -56,6 +65,7 @@ static struct fei_attr *fei_attr_new(const char *sym, unsigned long addr)
 			return NULL;
 		}
 		attr->kp.pre_handler = fei_kprobe_handler;
+		attr->kp.post_handler = fei_post_handler;
 		attr->retval = adjust_error_retval(addr, 0);
 		INIT_LIST_HEAD(&attr->list);
 	}


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2018-03-12 10:44   ` Daniel Borkmann
2018-03-12 14:06     ` Masami Hiramatsu
2018-03-12 15:21       ` Daniel Borkmann

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