[PATCH 070/270] mips,kgdb: fix recursive page fault with CONFIG_KPROBES

From: Herton Ronaldo Krzesinski
Date: Mon Nov 26 2012 - 13:08:10 EST


3.5.7u1 -stable review patch. If anyone has any objections, please let me know.

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From: Jason Wessel <jason.wessel@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>

commit f0a996eeeda214f4293e234df33b29bec003b536 upstream.

This fault was detected using the kgdb test suite on boot and it
crashes recursively due to the fact that CONFIG_KPROBES on mips adds
an extra die notifier in the page fault handler. The crash signature
looks like this:

kgdbts:RUN bad memory access test
KGDB: re-enter exception: ALL breakpoints killed
Call Trace:
[<807b7548>] dump_stack+0x20/0x54
[<807b7548>] dump_stack+0x20/0x54

The fix for now is to have kgdb return immediately if the fault type
is DIE_PAGE_FAULT and allow the kprobe code to decide what is supposed
to happen.

Cc: Masami Hiramatsu <masami.hiramatsu.pt@xxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: David S. Miller <davem@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Jason Wessel <jason.wessel@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Herton Ronaldo Krzesinski <herton.krzesinski@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
arch/mips/kernel/kgdb.c | 9 +++++++++
1 file changed, 9 insertions(+)

diff --git a/arch/mips/kernel/kgdb.c b/arch/mips/kernel/kgdb.c
index f4546e9..23817a6 100644
--- a/arch/mips/kernel/kgdb.c
+++ b/arch/mips/kernel/kgdb.c
@@ -283,6 +283,15 @@ static int kgdb_mips_notify(struct notifier_block *self, unsigned long cmd,
struct pt_regs *regs = args->regs;
int trap = (regs->cp0_cause & 0x7c) >> 2;

+#ifdef CONFIG_KPROBES
+ /*
+ * Return immediately if the kprobes fault notifier has set
+ * DIE_PAGE_FAULT.
+ */
+ if (cmd == DIE_PAGE_FAULT)
+ return NOTIFY_DONE;
+#endif /* CONFIG_KPROBES */
+
/* Userspace events, ignore. */
if (user_mode(regs))
return NOTIFY_DONE;
--
1.7.9.5

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