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    uprobes: Kill uprobes_state->count · 647c42df
    Oleg Nesterov authored
    uprobes_state->count is only needed to avoid the slow path in
    uprobe_pre_sstep_notifier(). It is also checked in uprobe_munmap()
    but ironically its only goal to decrement this counter. However,
    it is very broken. Just some examples:
    
    - uprobe_mmap() can race with uprobe_unregister() and wrongly
      increment the counter if it hits the non-uprobe "int3". Note
      that install_breakpoint() checks ->consumers first and returns
      -EEXIST if it is NULL.
    
      "atomic_sub() if error" in uprobe_mmap() looks obviously wrong
      too.
    
    - uprobe_munmap() can race with uprobe_register() and wrongly
      decrement the counter by the same reason.
    
    - Suppose an appication tries to increase the mmapped area via
      sys_mremap(). vma_adjust() does uprobe_munmap(whole_vma) first,
      this can nullify the counter temporarily and race with another
      thread which can hit the bp, the application will be killed by
      SIGTRAP.
    
    - Suppose an application mmaps 2 consecutive areas in the same file
      and one (or both) of these areas has uprobes. In the likely case
      mmap_region()->vma_merge() suceeds. Like above, this leads to
      uprobe_munmap/uprobe_mmap from vma_merge()->vma_adjust() but then
      mmap_region() does another uprobe_mmap(resulting_vma) and doubles
      the counter.
    
    This patch only removes this counter and fixes the compile errors,
    then we will try to cleanup the changed code and add something else
    instead.
    Signed-off-by: default avatarOleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>
    Acked-by: default avatarSrikar Dronamraju <srikar@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
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