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authorMasami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@kernel.org>2021-02-03 23:59:27 +0900
committerSteven Rostedt (VMware) <rostedt@goodmis.org>2021-02-09 12:44:32 -0500
commit33b1d14668859626bf96958e38042b0ed8a22a68 (patch)
tree19ac820f4fa936c4f2a1a8cb39e9b4a369b95c2b /kernel/kprobes.c
parenta1320e0c2fc834264fa2125ef5c40670dbb5b736 (diff)
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kprobes: Warn if the kprobe is reregistered
Warn if the kprobe is reregistered, since there must be a software bug (actively used resource must not be re-registered) and caller must be fixed. Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/161236436734.194052.4058506306336814476.stgit@devnote2 Acked-by: Naveen N. Rao <naveen.n.rao@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Acked-by: Ananth N Mavinakayanahalli <ananth@linux.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Masami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (VMware) <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'kernel/kprobes.c')
-rw-r--r--kernel/kprobes.c13
1 files changed, 8 insertions, 5 deletions
diff --git a/kernel/kprobes.c b/kernel/kprobes.c
index d5a3eb74a657..dd1d027455c4 100644
--- a/kernel/kprobes.c
+++ b/kernel/kprobes.c
@@ -1520,13 +1520,16 @@ valid:
return ap;
}
-/* Return error if the kprobe is being re-registered */
-static inline int check_kprobe_rereg(struct kprobe *p)
+/*
+ * Warn and return error if the kprobe is being re-registered since
+ * there must be a software bug.
+ */
+static inline int warn_kprobe_rereg(struct kprobe *p)
{
int ret = 0;
mutex_lock(&kprobe_mutex);
- if (__get_valid_kprobe(p))
+ if (WARN_ON_ONCE(__get_valid_kprobe(p)))
ret = -EINVAL;
mutex_unlock(&kprobe_mutex);
@@ -1614,7 +1617,7 @@ int register_kprobe(struct kprobe *p)
return PTR_ERR(addr);
p->addr = addr;
- ret = check_kprobe_rereg(p);
+ ret = warn_kprobe_rereg(p);
if (ret)
return ret;
@@ -1995,7 +1998,7 @@ int register_kretprobe(struct kretprobe *rp)
return ret;
/* If only rp->kp.addr is specified, check reregistering kprobes */
- if (rp->kp.addr && check_kprobe_rereg(&rp->kp))
+ if (rp->kp.addr && warn_kprobe_rereg(&rp->kp))
return -EINVAL;
if (kretprobe_blacklist_size) {