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* [PATCH -tip ] [BUGFIX] x86/kprobes: Prevent kprobes to probe on save_args
@ 2010-11-18 10:16 Masami Hiramatsu
  2010-11-18 14:14 ` [tip:perf/urgent] x86/kprobes: Prevent kprobes to probe on save_args() tip-bot for Masami Hiramatsu
  0 siblings, 1 reply; 2+ messages in thread
From: Masami Hiramatsu @ 2010-11-18 10:16 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: Ingo Molnar
  Cc: linux-kernel, 2nddept-manager, Masami Hiramatsu,
	Ananth N Mavinakayanahalli, Thomas Gleixner, Ingo Molnar,
	H. Peter Anvin, x86, linux-kernel

Prevent kprobes to probe on save_args() since this function
will be called from breakpoint exception handler. That will
cause infinit loop on breakpoint handling.

Signed-off-by: Masami Hiramatsu <masami.hiramatsu.pt@hitachi.com>
Cc: Ananth N Mavinakayanahalli <ananth@in.ibm.com>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com>
Cc: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
Cc: x86@kernel.org
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
---

 arch/x86/kernel/entry_64.S |    2 ++
 1 files changed, 2 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-)

diff --git a/arch/x86/kernel/entry_64.S b/arch/x86/kernel/entry_64.S
index fe2690d..e3ba417 100644
--- a/arch/x86/kernel/entry_64.S
+++ b/arch/x86/kernel/entry_64.S
@@ -295,6 +295,7 @@ ENDPROC(native_usergs_sysret64)
 	.endm
 
 /* save partial stack frame */
+	.pushsection .kprobes.text, "ax"
 ENTRY(save_args)
 	XCPT_FRAME
 	cld
@@ -334,6 +335,7 @@ ENTRY(save_args)
 	ret
 	CFI_ENDPROC
 END(save_args)
+	.popsection
 
 ENTRY(save_rest)
 	PARTIAL_FRAME 1 REST_SKIP+8


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