Naveen N. Rao fa99a3470e powerpc/kprobes: Fix call trace due to incorrect preempt count
commit e6e133c47e upstream.

Michael Ellerman reported the following call trace when running
ftracetest:

  BUG: using __this_cpu_write() in preemptible [00000000] code: ftracetest/6178
  caller is opt_pre_handler+0xc4/0x110
  CPU: 1 PID: 6178 Comm: ftracetest Not tainted 4.15.0-rc7-gcc6x-gb2cd1df #1
  Call Trace:
  [c0000000f9ec39c0] [c000000000ac4304] dump_stack+0xb4/0x100 (unreliable)
  [c0000000f9ec3a00] [c00000000061159c] check_preemption_disabled+0x15c/0x170
  [c0000000f9ec3a90] [c000000000217e84] opt_pre_handler+0xc4/0x110
  [c0000000f9ec3af0] [c00000000004cf68] optimized_callback+0x148/0x170
  [c0000000f9ec3b40] [c00000000004d954] optinsn_slot+0xec/0x10000
  [c0000000f9ec3e30] [c00000000004bae0] kretprobe_trampoline+0x0/0x10

This is showing up since OPTPROBES is now enabled with CONFIG_PREEMPT.

trampoline_probe_handler() considers itself to be a special kprobe
handler for kretprobes. In doing so, it expects to be called from
kprobe_handler() on a trap, and re-enables preemption before returning a
non-zero return value so as to suppress any subsequent processing of the
trap by the kprobe_handler().

However, with optprobes, we don't deal with special handlers (we ignore
the return code) and just try to re-enable preemption causing the above
trace.

To address this, modify trampoline_probe_handler() to not be special.
The only additional processing done in kprobe_handler() is to emulate
the instruction (in this case, a 'nop'). We adjust the value of
regs->nip for the purpose and delegate the job of re-enabling
preemption and resetting current kprobe to the probe handlers
(kprobe_handler() or optimized_callback()).

Fixes: 8a2d71a3f2 ("powerpc/kprobes: Disable preemption before invoking probe handler for optprobes")
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org # v4.15+
Reported-by: Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au>
Signed-off-by: Naveen N. Rao <naveen.n.rao@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Acked-by: Ananth N Mavinakayanahalli <ananth@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
2018-04-24 09:36:28 +02:00
2018-04-19 08:56:21 +02:00

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