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| author | Michael Neuling <mikey@neuling.org> | 2012-08-22 20:30:43 +0000 |
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| committer | Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org> | 2012-08-24 20:26:04 +1000 |
| commit | 6d9c00c67b4768105e8ae3d213484095c744eea8 (patch) | |
| tree | e29ea6f055e94da270f8191531f60f6979de3fc7 /arch/powerpc | |
| parent | e3bc8049e524f13e09a58f5bad70b6738494277a (diff) | |
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powerpc: Fix null pointer deref in perf hardware breakpoints
Currently if you are doing a global perf recording with hardware
breakpoints (ie perf record -e mem:0xdeadbeef -a), you can oops with:
Faulting instruction address: 0xc000000000738890
cpu 0xc: Vector: 300 (Data Access) at [c0000003f76af8d0]
pc: c000000000738890: .hw_breakpoint_handler+0xa0/0x1e0
lr: c000000000738830: .hw_breakpoint_handler+0x40/0x1e0
sp: c0000003f76afb50
msr: 8000000000001032
dar: 6f0
dsisr: 42000000
current = 0xc0000003f765ac00
paca = 0xc00000000f262a00 softe: 0 irq_happened: 0x01
pid = 6810, comm = loop-read
enter ? for help
[c0000003f76afbe0] c00000000073cd04 .notifier_call_chain.isra.0+0x84/0xe0
[c0000003f76afc80] c00000000073cdbc .notify_die+0x3c/0x60
[c0000003f76afd20] c0000000000139f0 .do_dabr+0x40/0xf0
[c0000003f76afe30] c000000000005a9c handle_dabr_fault+0x14/0x48
--- Exception: 300 (Data Access) at 0000000010000480
SP (ff8679e0) is in userspace
This is because we don't check to see if the break point is associated
with task before we deference the task_struct pointer.
This changes the update to use current.
Signed-off-by: Michael Neuling <mikey@neuling.org>
Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'arch/powerpc')
| -rw-r--r-- | arch/powerpc/kernel/hw_breakpoint.c | 2 |
1 files changed, 1 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/arch/powerpc/kernel/hw_breakpoint.c b/arch/powerpc/kernel/hw_breakpoint.c index f3a82dde61db..956a4c496de9 100644 --- a/arch/powerpc/kernel/hw_breakpoint.c +++ b/arch/powerpc/kernel/hw_breakpoint.c @@ -253,7 +253,7 @@ int __kprobes hw_breakpoint_handler(struct die_args *args) /* Do not emulate user-space instructions, instead single-step them */ if (user_mode(regs)) { - bp->ctx->task->thread.last_hit_ubp = bp; + current->thread.last_hit_ubp = bp; regs->msr |= MSR_SE; goto out; } |
