* [PATCH v2] uprobes: Use flexible array for xol_area bitmap
@ 2026-11-11 2:26 Rosen Penev
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From: Rosen Penev @ 2026-11-11 2:26 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: Masami Hiramatsu, Oleg Nesterov, Peter Zijlstra, Ingo Molnar,
Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo, Namhyung Kim
Cc: Mark Rutland, Alexander Shishkin, Jiri Olsa, Ian Rogers,
Adrian Hunter, James Clark, linux-kernel, linux-trace-kernel,
linux-perf-users
The XOL slot bitmap has the same lifetime as struct xol_area, but it
is currently allocated separately. That adds another allocation
failure path and a matching cleanup branch without buying any extra
flexibility.
Store the bitmap as a flexible array member and allocate it together
with the xol_area using kzalloc_flex(). The bitmap remains
zero-initialized, while the allocation and error handling become
simpler.
Signed-off-by: Rosen Penev <rosenp@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Masami Hiramatsu (Google) <mhiramat@kernel.org>
---
v2: add Acked-by. remove Assisted-by
kernel/events/uprobes.c | 14 +++-----------
1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 11 deletions(-)
diff --git a/kernel/events/uprobes.c b/kernel/events/uprobes.c
index 853fc952331c..876c3cfe8031 100644
--- a/kernel/events/uprobes.c
+++ b/kernel/events/uprobes.c
@@ -108,7 +108,6 @@ static LIST_HEAD(delayed_uprobe_list);
*/
struct xol_area {
wait_queue_head_t wq; /* if all slots are busy */
- unsigned long *bitmap; /* 0 = free slot */
struct page *page;
/*
@@ -117,6 +116,7 @@ struct xol_area {
* the vma go away, and we must handle that reasonably gracefully.
*/
unsigned long vaddr; /* Page(s) of instruction slots */
+ unsigned long bitmap[]; /* 0 = free slot */
};
static void uprobe_warn(struct task_struct *t, const char *msg)
@@ -1760,18 +1760,13 @@ static struct xol_area *__create_xol_area(unsigned long vaddr)
struct xol_area *area;
void *insns;
- area = kzalloc_obj(*area);
+ area = kzalloc_flex(*area, bitmap, BITS_TO_LONGS(UINSNS_PER_PAGE));
if (unlikely(!area))
goto out;
- area->bitmap = kcalloc(BITS_TO_LONGS(UINSNS_PER_PAGE), sizeof(long),
- GFP_KERNEL);
- if (!area->bitmap)
- goto free_area;
-
area->page = alloc_page(GFP_HIGHUSER | __GFP_ZERO);
if (!area->page)
- goto free_bitmap;
+ goto free_area;
area->vaddr = vaddr;
init_waitqueue_head(&area->wq);
@@ -1784,8 +1779,6 @@ static struct xol_area *__create_xol_area(unsigned long vaddr)
return area;
__free_page(area->page);
- free_bitmap:
- kfree(area->bitmap);
free_area:
kfree(area);
out:
@@ -1826,7 +1819,6 @@ void uprobe_clear_state(struct mm_struct *mm)
return;
put_page(area->page);
- kfree(area->bitmap);
kfree(area);
}
--
2.56.0
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