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authorNaveen N. Rao <naveen.n.rao@linux.vnet.ibm.com>2021-06-01 17:31:50 +0530
committerPeter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>2021-06-03 15:47:26 +0200
commit2e38eb04c95e5546b71bb86ee699a891c7d212b5 (patch)
tree08bd6a3a4294516dcfbd5b327fc50e65948fb22e /arch/arc/kernel
parent00afe83098f59d3091a800d0db188ca495b2bc02 (diff)
downloadlinux-2e38eb04c95e5546b71bb86ee699a891c7d212b5.tar.bz2
kprobes: Do not increment probe miss count in the fault handler
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
Diffstat (limited to 'arch/arc/kernel')
-rw-r--r--arch/arc/kernel/kprobes.c6
1 files changed, 0 insertions, 6 deletions
diff --git a/arch/arc/kernel/kprobes.c b/arch/arc/kernel/kprobes.c
index 9f5b39f38736..5f0415fc7328 100644
--- a/arch/arc/kernel/kprobes.c
+++ b/arch/arc/kernel/kprobes.c
@@ -317,12 +317,6 @@ int __kprobes kprobe_fault_handler(struct pt_regs *regs, unsigned long trapnr)
* 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.