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authorKeshavamurthy Anil S <anil.s.keshavamurthy@intel.com>2006-01-11 15:17:42 -0500
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@g5.osdl.org>2006-01-11 21:42:12 -0500
commiteb3a72921c8276bf2cd028a458bb83435f16c91c (patch)
tree634eff43e1926bdb400d038eb08115193b6a7506 /arch/sparc64/kernel
parentdf019b1d8b893d0f0ee5a9b0f71486f0892561ae (diff)
[PATCH] kprobes: fix race in recovery of reentrant probe
There is a window where a probe gets removed right after the probe is hit on some different cpu. In this case probe handlers can't find a matching probe instance related to break address. In this case we need to read the original instruction at break address to see if that is not a break/int3 instruction and recover safely. Previous code had a bug where we were not checking for the above race in case of reentrant probes and the below patch fixes this race. Tested on IA64, Powerpc, x86_64. Signed-off-by: Anil S Keshavamurthy <anil.s.keshavamurthy@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'arch/sparc64/kernel')
-rw-r--r--arch/sparc64/kernel/kprobes.c8
1 files changed, 8 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/arch/sparc64/kernel/kprobes.c b/arch/sparc64/kernel/kprobes.c
index ff5e9d5cad50..b9a9ce70e55c 100644
--- a/arch/sparc64/kernel/kprobes.c
+++ b/arch/sparc64/kernel/kprobes.c
@@ -135,6 +135,14 @@ static int __kprobes kprobe_handler(struct pt_regs *regs)
135 prepare_singlestep(p, regs, kcb); 135 prepare_singlestep(p, regs, kcb);
136 return 1; 136 return 1;
137 } else { 137 } else {
138 if (*(u32 *)addr != BREAKPOINT_INSTRUCTION) {
139 /* The breakpoint instruction was removed by
140 * another cpu right after we hit, no further
141 * handling of this interrupt is appropriate
142 */
143 ret = 1;
144 goto no_kprobe;
145 }
138 p = __get_cpu_var(current_kprobe); 146 p = __get_cpu_var(current_kprobe);
139 if (p->break_handler && p->break_handler(p, regs)) 147 if (p->break_handler && p->break_handler(p, regs))
140 goto ss_probe; 148 goto ss_probe;