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From: Heiko Carstens <heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com>
To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-s390@vger.kernel.org
Cc: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com>,
	David Wilder <dwilder@us.ibm.com>
Subject: [patch 3/6] kprobes: Align probe address.
Date: Mon, 26 Mar 2007 22:52:28 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20070326205250.559611310@de.ibm.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 20070326205225.438154546@de.ibm.com

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From: David Wilder <dwilder@us.ibm.com>

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.

Cc: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: David Wilder <dwilder@us.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Heiko Carstens <heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com>
---

 arch/s390/kernel/kprobes.c |    2 +-
 1 files changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

Index: linux-2.6/arch/s390/kernel/kprobes.c
===================================================================
--- linux-2.6.orig/arch/s390/kernel/kprobes.c
+++ linux-2.6/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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  parent reply	other threads:[~2007-03-26 20:53 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2007-03-26 20:52 [patch 0/6] s390 bug fixes for 2.6.21 Heiko Carstens
2007-03-26 20:52 ` [patch 1/6] dasd: Work around gcc bug Heiko Carstens
2007-03-26 20:52 ` [patch 2/6] Fix TCP/UDP pseudo header checksum computation Heiko Carstens
2007-03-26 20:52 ` Heiko Carstens [this message]
2007-03-26 20:52 ` [patch 4/6] cio: Device status validity Heiko Carstens
2007-03-26 20:52 ` [patch 5/6] zcrypt: Fix possible dead lock in AP bus module Heiko Carstens
2007-03-26 20:52 ` [patch 6/6] zcrypt: Fix ap_poll_requests counter in lost requests error path Heiko Carstens

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