prevent boosting kprobes on exception address

Don't boost at the addresses which are listed on exception tables,
because major page fault will occur on those addresses.  In that case,
kprobes can not ensure that when instruction buffer can be freed since
some processes will sleep on the buffer.

kprobes-ia64 already has same check.

Signed-off-by: Masami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@redhat.com>
Cc: Ananth N Mavinakayanahalli <ananth@in.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>

diff --git a/arch/x86/kernel/kprobes.c b/arch/x86/kernel/kprobes.c
index e948b28..4558dd3 100644 (file)
--- a/arch/x86/kernel/kprobes.c
+++ b/arch/x86/kernel/kprobes.c
@@ -193,6 +193,9 @@ static int __kprobes can_boost(kprobe_opcode_t *opcodes)
        kprobe_opcode_t opcode;
        kprobe_opcode_t *orig_opcodes = opcodes;
 
+       if (search_exception_tables(opcodes))
+               return 0;       /* Page fault may occur on this address. */
+
 retry:
        if (opcodes - orig_opcodes > MAX_INSN_SIZE - 1)
                return 0;