From: "Naveen N. Rao" <naveen.n.rao@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
To: Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@ozlabs.org>,
Anju T Sudhakar <anju@linux.vnet.ibm.com>,
linuxppc-dev@lists.ozlabs.org
Subject: [PATCH] powerpc/kprobes: Update optprobes to use emulate_update_regs()
Date: Fri, 15 Sep 2017 15:38:21 +0530 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20170915100821.7254-1-naveen.n.rao@linux.vnet.ibm.com> (raw)
Optprobes depended on an updated regs->nip from analyse_instr() to
identify the location to branch back from the optprobes trampoline.
However, since commit 3cdfcbfd32b9d ("powerpc: Change analyse_instr so
it doesn't modify *regs"), analyse_instr() doesn't update the registers
anymore. Due to this, we end up branching back from the optprobes
trampoline to the same branch into the trampoline resulting in a loop.
Fix this by calling out to emulate_update_regs() before using the nip.
Additionally, explicitly compare the return value from analyse_instr()
to 1, rather than just checking for !0 so as to guard against any
future changes to analyse_instr() that may result in -1 being returned
in more scenarios.
Fixes: 3cdfcbfd32b9d ("powerpc: Change analyse_instr so it doesn't modify *regs")
Signed-off-by: Naveen N. Rao <naveen.n.rao@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
---
arch/powerpc/kernel/optprobes.c | 4 +++-
1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
diff --git a/arch/powerpc/kernel/optprobes.c b/arch/powerpc/kernel/optprobes.c
index 6f8273f5e988..91e037ab20a1 100644
--- a/arch/powerpc/kernel/optprobes.c
+++ b/arch/powerpc/kernel/optprobes.c
@@ -104,8 +104,10 @@ static unsigned long can_optimize(struct kprobe *p)
* and that can be emulated.
*/
if (!is_conditional_branch(*p->ainsn.insn) &&
- analyse_instr(&op, ®s, *p->ainsn.insn))
+ analyse_instr(&op, ®s, *p->ainsn.insn) == 1) {
+ emulate_update_regs(®s, &op);
nip = regs.nip;
+ }
return nip;
}
--
2.14.1
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2017-09-21 1:46 ` powerpc/kprobes: Update optprobes to use emulate_update_regs() Michael Ellerman
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