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Subject: Re: [PATCH v3 2.6.39-rc1-tip 15/26] 15: uprobes: Handing int3 and
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From: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
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Date: Tue, 19 Apr 2011 09:12:21 -0400
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To: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Srikar Dronamraju <srikar@linux.vnet.ibm.com>, Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>, Linux-mm <linux-mm@kvack.org>, Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@infradead.org>, Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>, Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>, Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>, Masami Hiramatsu <masami.hiramatsu.pt@hitachi.com>, Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>, Ananth N Mavinakayanahalli <ananth@in.ibm.com>, Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>, LKML <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>, SystemTap <systemtap@sources.redhat.com>, Jim Keniston <jkenisto@linux.vnet.ibm.com>, Roland McGrath <roland@hack.frob.com>, Andi Kleen <andi@firstfloor.org>, Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>

On Tue, 2011-04-19 at 15:03 +0200, Peter Zijlstra wrote:
> On Fri, 2011-04-01 at 20:05 +0530, Srikar Dronamraju wrote:
> > +       if (unlikely(!utask)) {
> > +               utask = add_utask();
> > +
> > +               /* Failed to allocate utask for the current task. */
> > +               BUG_ON(!utask);
> 
> That's not really nice is it ;-) means I can make the kernel go BUG by
> simply applying memory pressure.

Agreed,

None of these patches should have a single BUG_ON(). They all must fail
nicely.

-- Steve

> 
> > +               utask->state = UTASK_BP_HIT;
> > +       } 


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