Re: [PATCH v7 3.2-rc2 3/30] uprobes: register/unregister probes.

From: Peter Zijlstra
Date: Wed Nov 23 2011 - 11:09:30 EST


On Fri, 2011-11-18 at 16:37 +0530, Srikar Dronamraju wrote:
> +static int __register_uprobe(struct inode *inode, loff_t offset,
> + struct uprobe *uprobe)
> +{
> + struct list_head try_list;
> + struct vm_area_struct *vma;
> + struct address_space *mapping;
> + struct vma_info *vi, *tmpvi;
> + struct mm_struct *mm;
> + loff_t vaddr;
> + int ret = 0;
> +
> + mapping = inode->i_mapping;
> + INIT_LIST_HEAD(&try_list);
> + while ((vi = find_next_vma_info(&try_list, offset,
> + mapping, true)) != NULL) {
> + if (IS_ERR(vi)) {
> + ret = -ENOMEM;
> + break;
> + }
> + mm = vi->mm;
> + down_read(&mm->mmap_sem);
> + vma = find_vma(mm, (unsigned long)vi->vaddr);
> + if (!vma || !valid_vma(vma, true)) {
> + list_del(&vi->probe_list);
> + kfree(vi);
> + up_read(&mm->mmap_sem);
> + mmput(mm);
> + continue;
> + }
> + vaddr = vma->vm_start + offset;
> + vaddr -= vma->vm_pgoff << PAGE_SHIFT;
> + if (vma->vm_file->f_mapping->host != inode ||
> + vaddr != vi->vaddr) {
> + list_del(&vi->probe_list);
> + kfree(vi);
> + up_read(&mm->mmap_sem);
> + mmput(mm);
> + continue;
> + }
> + ret = install_breakpoint(mm);
> + up_read(&mm->mmap_sem);
> + mmput(mm);
> + if (ret && ret == -EEXIST)
> + ret = 0;
> + if (!ret)
> + break;

Shouldn't that read:
if (ret)
break;

So that we bail when there's a real error instead of no error?

> + }
> + list_for_each_entry_safe(vi, tmpvi, &try_list, probe_list) {
> + list_del(&vi->probe_list);
> + kfree(vi);
> + }
> + return ret;
> +}
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