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Commit dc55daff authored by Mark Rutland's avatar Mark Rutland Committed by Linus Torvalds
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kcov: prefault the kcov_area

On many architectures the vmalloc area is lazily faulted in upon first
access.  This is problematic for KCOV, as __sanitizer_cov_trace_pc
accesses the (vmalloc'd) kcov_area, and fault handling code may be
instrumented.  If an access to kcov_area faults, this will result in
mutual recursion through the fault handling code and
__sanitizer_cov_trace_pc(), eventually leading to stack corruption
and/or overflow.

We can avoid this by faulting in the kcov_area before
__sanitizer_cov_trace_pc() is permitted to access it.  Once it has been
faulted in, it will remain present in the process page tables, and will
not fault again.

[akpm@linux-foundation.org: code cleanup]
[akpm@linux-foundation.org: add comment explaining kcov_fault_in_area()]
[akpm@linux-foundation.org: fancier code comment from Mark]
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20180504135535.53744-3-mark.rutland@arm.com


Signed-off-by: default avatarMark Rutland <mark.rutland@arm.com>
Acked-by: default avatarAndrey Ryabinin <aryabinin@virtuozzo.com>
Cc: Dmitry Vyukov <dvyukov@google.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Signed-off-by: default avatarAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: default avatarLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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