[PATCH v12 7/7] ARM: kprobes: enable OPTPROBES for ARM 32

On 2014/12/5 0:21, Jon Medhurst (Tixy) wrote:

On Thu, 2014-12-04 at 13:36 +0800, Wang Nan wrote:

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I have retested this patch and on one of the arm test cases I get an
undefined instruction exception in kprobe_arm_test_cases. When this
happens PC points to the second nop below. 


80028a38:	e320f000 	nop	{0}
80028a3c:	e11000b2 	ldrh	r0, [r0, -r2]
80028a40:	e320f000 	nop	{0}

As all three instructions will have probes on them during testing, and
un-optimised probes are implemented by using an undefined instruction to
act as a breakpoint, my first thought was that we have a race condition
somewhere with adding, removing or optimizing probes. Though a reboot a
retest failed in the same way on the same instruction, so I'm not 100%
convinced about strictly timing related bugs.
 

Does the problem appear in your platform in each time? Currently I have only
QEMU machine for testing and haven't seen problem like this before. Could
you please provide a detail steps for me to reproduce it? Or do you just
enable kprobe test code when booting and this exception simply appear twice?

Meanwhile, I have some review comments of the code below...

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quoted

+	/*
+	 * Add more 4 byte for potential AEABI requirement. If probing is triggered
+	 * when SP % 8 == 4, we sub SP by another 4 bytes.
+	 */
+	stack_protect += orig->ainsn.stack_space + 4;

The above comment and code don't match up any more with the code in
optprobe_template_entry, it should be '+ 7' here. Alternatively, change
the code in optprobe_template_entry back to use 4 as I suggested.

Looks like we don't really need this 4 bytes. ASM code should operate SP correctly in
each case.