Commit 44bd887c authored Jul 19, 2016 by Will Deacon Committed by Catalin Marinas Jul 19, 2016

arm64: kprobes: WARN if attempting to step with PSTATE.D=1



Stepping with PSTATE.D=1 is bad news. The step won't generate a debug
exception and we'll likely walk off into random data structures. This
should never happen, but when it does, it's a PITA to debug. Add a
WARN_ON to shout if we realise this is about to take place.

Signed-off-by: Will Deacon <will.deacon@arm.com>
Acked-by: Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@arm.com>
Signed-off-by: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com>

parent af78cede

arch/arm64/kernel/probes/kprobes.c

+2 −0

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		@@ -254,6 +254,8 @@ static void __kprobes setup_singlestep(struct kprobe *p,

		if (kcb->kprobe_status == KPROBE_REENTER)
		spsr_set_debug_flag(regs, 0);
		else
		WARN_ON(regs->pstate & PSR_D_BIT);

		/* IRQs and single stepping do not mix well. */
		kprobes_save_local_irqflag(kcb, regs);