Re: [PATCH 2/3] arm64: kprobes: Let arch do_page_fault() fix up page fault in user handler

From: Mark Rutland
Date: Thu Dec 01 2022 - 09:57:00 EST


On Thu, Dec 01, 2022 at 11:39:11PM +0900, Masami Hiramatsu (Google) wrote:
> From: Masami Hiramatsu (Google) <mhiramat@xxxxxxxxxx>
>
> Since arm64's do_page_fault() can handle the page fault correctly
> than kprobe_fault_handler() according to the context, let it handle
> the page fault instead of simply call fixup_exception() in the
> kprobe_fault_handler().
>
> Signed-off-by: Masami Hiramatsu (Google) <mhiramat@xxxxxxxxxx>

Acked-by: Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@xxxxxxx>

Mark.

> ---
> arch/arm64/kernel/probes/kprobes.c | 8 --------
> 1 file changed, 8 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/arch/arm64/kernel/probes/kprobes.c b/arch/arm64/kernel/probes/kprobes.c
> index c9e4d0720285..d2ae37f89774 100644
> --- a/arch/arm64/kernel/probes/kprobes.c
> +++ b/arch/arm64/kernel/probes/kprobes.c
> @@ -294,14 +294,6 @@ int __kprobes kprobe_fault_handler(struct pt_regs *regs, unsigned int fsr)
> }
>
> break;
> - case KPROBE_HIT_ACTIVE:
> - case KPROBE_HIT_SSDONE:
> - /*
> - * In case the user-specified fault handler returned
> - * zero, try to fix up.
> - */
> - if (fixup_exception(regs))
> - return 1;
> }
> return 0;
> }
>