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[RFC PATCH v2 05/11] ptwrite uprobes: Factor file-backed instruction reads

From: Andi Kleen <ak@kernel.org>
Date: 2026-09-17 23:02:05
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Subsystem: performance events subsystem, the rest, uprobes · Maintainers: Peter Zijlstra, Ingo Molnar, Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo, Namhyung Kim, Linus Torvalds, Masami Hiramatsu, Oleg Nesterov

Refactor copy_insn into a more generic uprobe_copy_from_file.
The existing copy_insn is still there, but uses the generic
version now. The generic version will be used in later patches.

No semantic change intended.

Assisted-by: omp:gpt-5.6-luna
Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@kernel.org>
---
 include/linux/uprobes.h |  2 ++
 kernel/events/uprobes.c | 59 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++------------
 2 files changed, 44 insertions(+), 17 deletions(-)
diff --git a/include/linux/uprobes.h b/include/linux/uprobes.h
index 6cea2944ca8b..6fa70f3f648c 100644
--- a/include/linux/uprobes.h
+++ b/include/linux/uprobes.h
@@ -304,6 +304,8 @@ extern void uprobe_handle_trampoline(struct pt_regs *regs);
 extern void *arch_uretprobe_trampoline(unsigned long *psize);
 extern unsigned long uprobe_get_trampoline_vaddr(void);
 extern void uprobe_copy_from_page(struct page *page, unsigned long vaddr, void *dst, int len);
+extern int uprobe_copy_from_file(struct inode *inode, struct file *file,
+				 loff_t offset, void *buf, int size);
 extern void arch_uprobe_clear_state(struct mm_struct *mm);
 extern void arch_uprobe_init_state(struct mm_struct *mm);
 extern void handle_syscall_uprobe(struct pt_regs *regs, unsigned long bp_vaddr);
diff --git a/kernel/events/uprobes.c b/kernel/events/uprobes.c
index 30c28625bb5f..894196f3089f 100644
--- a/kernel/events/uprobes.c
+++ b/kernel/events/uprobes.c
@@ -1073,30 +1073,55 @@ static int __copy_insn(struct address_space *mapping, struct file *filp,
 	return 0;
 }
 
-static int copy_insn(struct uprobe *uprobe, struct file *filp)
+/**
+ * uprobe_copy_from_file - read bytes from a file's page cache
+ * @inode: the file's inode
+ * @file: file used by the filesystem's read_folio callback
+ * @offset: byte offset into the file
+ * @buf: destination buffer
+ * @size: number of bytes to read (may cross page boundaries)
+ *
+ * Callers that require a full instruction must check that the requested size
+ * was copied.
+ */
+int uprobe_copy_from_file(struct inode *inode, struct file *file,
+			  loff_t offset, void *buf, int size)
 {
-	struct address_space *mapping = uprobe->inode->i_mapping;
-	loff_t offs = uprobe->offset;
-	void *insn = &uprobe->arch.insn;
-	int size = sizeof(uprobe->arch.insn);
-	int len, err = -EIO;
+	struct address_space *mapping = inode->i_mapping;
+	int len, copied = 0, err;
 
-	/* Copy only available bytes, -EIO if nothing was read */
-	do {
-		if (offs >= i_size_read(uprobe->inode))
+	if (offset < 0 || size < 0)
+		return -EINVAL;
+
+	while (copied < size) {
+		if (offset >= i_size_read(inode))
 			break;
 
-		len = min_t(int, size, PAGE_SIZE - (offs & ~PAGE_MASK));
-		err = __copy_insn(mapping, filp, insn, len, offs);
+		/* Let the page cache zero-fill bytes past i_size in the final page. */
+		len = min_t(int, size - copied,
+			    PAGE_SIZE - (offset & ~PAGE_MASK));
+		err = __copy_insn(mapping, file, buf + copied, len, offset);
 		if (err)
-			break;
+			return err;
+
+		copied += len;
+		offset += len;
+	}
+	return copied;
+}
 
-		insn += len;
-		offs += len;
-		size -= len;
-	} while (size);
+static int copy_insn(struct uprobe *uprobe, struct file *filp)
+{
+	int ret;
 
-	return err;
+	ret = uprobe_copy_from_file(uprobe->inode, filp, uprobe->offset,
+				    &uprobe->arch.insn,
+				    sizeof(uprobe->arch.insn));
+	if (ret < 0)
+		return ret;
+	if (!ret)
+		return -EIO;
+	return 0;
 }
 
 static int prepare_uprobe(struct uprobe *uprobe, struct file *file,
-- 
2.54.0
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