Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1752520AbbGaDcw (ORCPT ); Thu, 30 Jul 2015 23:32:52 -0400 Received: from mail.kernel.org ([198.145.29.136]:45708 "EHLO mail.kernel.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751216AbbGaDct (ORCPT ); Thu, 30 Jul 2015 23:32:49 -0400 From: Andy Lutomirski To: Peter Zijlstra , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Cc: Brian Gerst , Steven Rostedt , Borislav Petkov , Thomas Gleixner , Linus Torvalds , X86 ML , Masami Hiramatsu , Andy Lutomirski Subject: [PATCH 3/3] x86/perf/hw_breakpoint: Fix check for kernelspace breakpoints Date: Thu, 30 Jul 2015 20:32:42 -0700 Message-Id: <136be387950e78f18cea60e9d1bef74465d0ee8f.1438312874.git.luto@kernel.org> X-Mailer: git-send-email 2.4.3 In-Reply-To: References: In-Reply-To: References: Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1411 Lines: 39 The check looked wrong, although I think it was actually safe. TASK_SIZE is unnecessarily small for compat tasks, and it wasn't possible to make a range breakpoint so large it started in user space and ended in kernel space. Nonetheless, let's fix up the check for the benefit of future readers. A breakpoint is in the kernel if either end is in the kernel. Signed-off-by: Andy Lutomirski --- arch/x86/kernel/hw_breakpoint.c | 6 +++++- 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/arch/x86/kernel/hw_breakpoint.c b/arch/x86/kernel/hw_breakpoint.c index 6f345d302cf6..50a3fad5b89f 100644 --- a/arch/x86/kernel/hw_breakpoint.c +++ b/arch/x86/kernel/hw_breakpoint.c @@ -180,7 +180,11 @@ int arch_check_bp_in_kernelspace(struct perf_event *bp) va = info->address; len = bp->attr.bp_len; - return (va >= TASK_SIZE) && ((va + len - 1) >= TASK_SIZE); + /* + * We don't need to worry about va + len - 1 overflowing: + * we already require that va is aligned to a multiple of len. + */ + return (va >= TASK_SIZE_MAX) || ((va + len - 1) >= TASK_SIZE_MAX); } int arch_bp_generic_fields(int x86_len, int x86_type, -- 2.4.3 -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/