x86, kprobes: correct post-eip value in post_hander()
authorYakov Lerner <iler.ml@gmail.com>
Sun, 16 Mar 2008 08:21:21 +0000 (03:21 -0500)
committerIngo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Thu, 17 Apr 2008 15:41:13 +0000 (17:41 +0200)
I was trying to get the address of instruction to be executed
next after the kprobed instruction.  But regs->eip in post_handler()
contains value which is useless to the user. It's pre-corrected value.
This value is difficult to use without access to resume_execution(), which
is not exported anyway.
I moved the invocation of post_handler() to *after* resume_execution().
Now regs->eip contains meaningful value in post_handler().

I do not think this change breaks any backward-compatibility.
To make meaning of the old value, post_handler() would need access to
resume_execution() which is not exported.  I have difficulty to believe
that previous, uncorrected, regs->eip can be meaningfully used in
post_handler().

Signed-off-by: Yakov Lerner <iler.ml@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Ananth N Mavinakayanahalli <ananth@in.ibm.com>
Acked-by: Masami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
arch/x86/kernel/kprobes.c

index 1e3de7db9ad5f393a9256a58b9c59e28d52f79cf..cc8ae90103ff631ee30ab230696a8a9b15022477 100644 (file)
@@ -858,15 +858,15 @@ static int __kprobes post_kprobe_handler(struct pt_regs *regs)
        if (!cur)
                return 0;
 
+       resume_execution(cur, regs, kcb);
+       regs->flags |= kcb->kprobe_saved_flags;
+       trace_hardirqs_fixup_flags(regs->flags);
+
        if ((kcb->kprobe_status != KPROBE_REENTER) && cur->post_handler) {
                kcb->kprobe_status = KPROBE_HIT_SSDONE;
                cur->post_handler(cur, regs, 0);
        }
 
-       resume_execution(cur, regs, kcb);
-       regs->flags |= kcb->kprobe_saved_flags;
-       trace_hardirqs_fixup_flags(regs->flags);
-
        /* Restore back the original saved kprobes variables and continue. */
        if (kcb->kprobe_status == KPROBE_REENTER) {
                restore_previous_kprobe(kcb);