From: Masami Hiramatsu Date: Thu, 4 Apr 2013 10:42:30 +0000 (+0900) Subject: kprobes/x86: Just return error for sanity check failure instead of using BUG_ON X-Git-Url: https://git.karo-electronics.de/?a=commitdiff_plain;h=8101376;p=linux-beck.git kprobes/x86: Just return error for sanity check failure instead of using BUG_ON Return an error from __copy_instruction() and use printk() to give us a more productive message, since this is just an error case which we can handle and also the BUG_ON() never tells us why and what happened. This is related to the following bug-report: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=910649 Signed-off-by: Masami Hiramatsu Cc: Frank Ch. Eigler Cc: Steven Rostedt Cc: yrl.pp-manager.tt@hitachi.com Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20130404104230.22862.85242.stgit@mhiramat-M0-7522 Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar --- diff --git a/arch/x86/kernel/kprobes/core.c b/arch/x86/kernel/kprobes/core.c index 7bfe318d3d8a..9895a9a41380 100644 --- a/arch/x86/kernel/kprobes/core.c +++ b/arch/x86/kernel/kprobes/core.c @@ -353,7 +353,11 @@ int __kprobes __copy_instruction(u8 *dest, u8 *src) * have given. */ newdisp = (u8 *) src + (s64) insn.displacement.value - (u8 *) dest; - BUG_ON((s64) (s32) newdisp != newdisp); /* Sanity check. */ + if ((s64) (s32) newdisp != newdisp) { + pr_err("Kprobes error: new displacement does not fit into s32 (%llx)\n", newdisp); + pr_err("\tSrc: %p, Dest: %p, old disp: %x\n", src, dest, insn.displacement.value); + return 0; + } disp = (u8 *) dest + insn_offset_displacement(&insn); *(s32 *) disp = (s32) newdisp; }