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authorOleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>2012-09-16 17:20:06 +0200
committerOleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>2012-09-29 21:21:53 +0200
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uprobes: Change write_opcode() to use FOLL_FORCE
write_opcode()->get_user_pages() needs FOLL_FORCE to ensure we can read the page even if the probed task did mprotect(PROT_NONE) after uprobe_register(). Without FOLL_WRITE, FOLL_FORCE doesn't have any side effect but allows to read the !VM_READ memory. Otherwiese the subsequent uprobe_unregister()->set_orig_insn() fails and we leak "int3". If that task does mprotect(PROT_READ | EXEC) and execute the probed insn later it will be killed. Note: in fact this is also needed for _register, see the next patch. Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com> Acked-by: Srikar Dronamraju <srikar@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
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