Kprobes has a counter 'nmissed', that is used to count the number of
times a probe handler was not called. This generally happens when we hit
a kprobe while handling another kprobe.
However, if one of the probe handlers causes a fault, we are currently
incrementing 'nmissed'. The comment in fault handler indicates that this
can be used to account faults taken by the probe handlers. But, this has
never been the intention as is evident from the comment above 'nmissed'
in 'struct kprobe':
/*count the number of times this probe was temporarily disarmed */
unsigned long nmissed;
Signed-off-by: Naveen N. Rao <naveen.n.rao@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org>
Acked-by: Masami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@kernel.org>
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20210601120150.672652-1-naveen.n.rao@linux.vnet.ibm.com
* caused the fault.
*/
- /* We increment the nmissed count for accounting,
- * we can also use npre/npostfault count for accounting
- * these specific fault cases.
- */
- kprobes_inc_nmissed_count(cur);
-
/*
* In case the user-specified fault handler returned zero,
* try to fix up.
reset_current_kprobe();
}
break;
-
- case KPROBE_HIT_ACTIVE:
- case KPROBE_HIT_SSDONE:
- /*
- * We increment the nmissed count for accounting,
- * we can also use npre/npostfault count for accounting
- * these specific fault cases.
- */
- kprobes_inc_nmissed_count(cur);
-
- break;
-
- default:
- break;
}
return 0;
break;
case KPROBE_HIT_ACTIVE:
case KPROBE_HIT_SSDONE:
- /*
- * We increment the nmissed count for accounting,
- * we can also use npre/npostfault count for accounting
- * these specific fault cases.
- */
- kprobes_inc_nmissed_count(cur);
-
/*
* In case the user-specified fault handler returned
* zero, try to fix up.
break;
case KPROBE_HIT_ACTIVE:
case KPROBE_HIT_SSDONE:
- /*
- * We increment the nmissed count for accounting,
- * we can also use npre/npostfault count for accounting
- * these specific fault cases.
- */
- kprobes_inc_nmissed_count(cur);
-
/*
* In case the user-specified fault handler returned
* zero, try to fix up.
break;
case KPROBE_HIT_ACTIVE:
case KPROBE_HIT_SSDONE:
- /*
- * We increment the nmissed count for accounting,
- * we can also use npre/npostfault count for accounting
- * these specific fault cases.
- */
- kprobes_inc_nmissed_count(cur);
-
/*
* In case the user-specified fault handler returned
* zero, try to fix up.
break;
case KPROBE_HIT_ACTIVE:
case KPROBE_HIT_SSDONE:
- /*
- * We increment the nmissed count for accounting,
- * we can also use npre/npostfault count for accounting
- * these specific fault cases.
- */
- kprobes_inc_nmissed_count(cur);
-
/*
* In case the user-specified fault handler returned
* zero, try to fix up.
break;
case KPROBE_HIT_ACTIVE:
case KPROBE_HIT_SSDONE:
- /*
- * We increment the nmissed count for accounting,
- * we can also use npre/npostfault count for accounting
- * these specific fault cases.
- */
- kprobes_inc_nmissed_count(cur);
-
/*
* In case the user-specified fault handler returned
* zero, try to fix up.
break;
case KPROBE_HIT_ACTIVE:
case KPROBE_HIT_SSDONE:
- /*
- * We increment the nmissed count for accounting,
- * we can also use npre/npostfault count for accounting
- * these specific fault cases.
- */
- kprobes_inc_nmissed_count(p);
-
/*
* In case the user-specified fault handler returned
* zero, try to fix up.
break;
case KPROBE_HIT_ACTIVE:
case KPROBE_HIT_SSDONE:
- /*
- * We increment the nmissed count for accounting,
- * we can also use npre/npostfault count for accounting
- * these specific fault cases.
- */
- kprobes_inc_nmissed_count(cur);
-
/*
* In case the user-specified fault handler returned
* zero, try to fix up.
break;
case KPROBE_HIT_ACTIVE:
case KPROBE_HIT_SSDONE:
- /*
- * We increment the nmissed count for accounting,
- * we can also use npre/npostfault count for accounting
- * these specific fault cases.
- */
- kprobes_inc_nmissed_count(cur);
-
/*
* In case the user-specified fault handler returned
* zero, try to fix up.
restore_previous_kprobe(kcb);
else
reset_current_kprobe();
- } else if (kcb->kprobe_status == KPROBE_HIT_ACTIVE ||
- kcb->kprobe_status == KPROBE_HIT_SSDONE) {
- /*
- * We increment the nmissed count for accounting,
- * we can also use npre/npostfault count for accounting
- * these specific fault cases.
- */
- kprobes_inc_nmissed_count(cur);
}
return 0;