From: Masami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@xxxxxxxxxx> commit 5f843ed415581cfad4ef8fefe31c138a8346ca8a upstream. The following commit introduced a bug in one of our error paths: 819319fc9346 ("kprobes: Return error if we fail to reuse kprobe instead of BUG_ON()") it missed to handle the return value of kprobe_optready() as error-value. In reality, the kprobe_optready() returns a bool result, so "true" case must be passed instead of 0. This causes some errors on kprobe boot-time selftests on ARM: [ ] Beginning kprobe tests... [ ] Probe ARM code [ ] kprobe [ ] kretprobe [ ] ARM instruction simulation [ ] Check decoding tables [ ] Run test cases [ ] FAIL: test_case_handler not run [ ] FAIL: Test andge r10, r11, r14, asr r7 [ ] FAIL: Scenario 11 ... [ ] FAIL: Scenario 7 [ ] Total instruction simulation tests=1631, pass=1433 fail=198 [ ] kprobe tests failed This can happen if an optimized probe is unregistered and next kprobe is registered on same address until the previous probe is not reclaimed. If this happens, a hidden aggregated probe may be kept in memory, and no new kprobe can probe same address. Also, in that case register_kprobe() will return "1" instead of minus error value, which can mislead caller logic. Signed-off-by: Masami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@xxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Anil S Keshavamurthy <anil.s.keshavamurthy@xxxxxxxxx> Cc: David S . Miller <davem@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Naveen N . Rao <naveen.n.rao@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Cc: stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx # v5.0+ Fixes: 819319fc9346 ("kprobes: Return error if we fail to reuse kprobe instead of BUG_ON()") Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/155530808559.32517.539898325433642204.stgit@devnote2 Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@xxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- kernel/kprobes.c | 6 ++---- 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-) --- a/kernel/kprobes.c +++ b/kernel/kprobes.c @@ -668,7 +668,6 @@ static void unoptimize_kprobe(struct kpr static int reuse_unused_kprobe(struct kprobe *ap) { struct optimized_kprobe *op; - int ret; BUG_ON(!kprobe_unused(ap)); /* @@ -682,9 +681,8 @@ static int reuse_unused_kprobe(struct kp /* Enable the probe again */ ap->flags &= ~KPROBE_FLAG_DISABLED; /* Optimize it again (remove from op->list) */ - ret = kprobe_optready(ap); - if (ret) - return ret; + if (!kprobe_optready(ap)) + return -EINVAL; optimize_kprobe(ap); return 0;