From: David Wilder <dwilder@us.ibm.com>
To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, akpm@us.ibm.com, schwidefsky@de.ibm.com
Subject: [patch] s390 kprobes: Align probe address
Date: Wed, 21 Mar 2007 18:09:10 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4601D736.9020409@us.ibm.com> (raw)
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Running a probe on s390 with a probe address that is not 4 byte aligned
results in a Kernel BUG. The problem is that the stura instruction used
by swap_instruction requires the destination address to be 4 byte aligned.
As stura only writes 4 bytes, aligning to the next 4 byte aligned address
results in the breakpoint instruction being stored past the probe address.
The fix is to align the address backward (to the previous 4 byte aligned
address) and writing the two byte breakpoint instruction in the appropriate
bytes.
Signed-off-by: David Wilder <dwilder@us.ibm.com>
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diff --git a/arch/s390/kernel/kprobes.c b/arch/s390/kernel/kprobes.c
index 8af549e..993f353 100644
--- a/arch/s390/kernel/kprobes.c
+++ b/arch/s390/kernel/kprobes.c
@@ -167,7 +167,7 @@ static int __kprobes swap_instruction(vo
* shall not cross any page boundaries (vmalloc area!) when writing
* the new instruction.
*/
- addr = (u32 *)ALIGN((unsigned long)args->ptr, 4);
+ addr = (u32 *)((unsigned long)args->ptr & -4UL);
if ((unsigned long)args->ptr & 2)
instr = ((*addr) & 0xffff0000) | args->new;
else
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