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authorNaveen N. Rao <naveen.n.rao@linux.vnet.ibm.com>2017-10-30 20:42:08 +0530
committerMichael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au>2017-11-01 15:50:12 +1100
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Revert "powerpc64/elfv1: Only dereference function descriptor for non-text symbols"
This reverts commit 83e840c770f2c5 ("powerpc64/elfv1: Only dereference function descriptor for non-text symbols"). Chandan reported that on newer kernels, trying to enable function_graph tracer on ppc64 (BE) locks up the system with the following trace: Unable to handle kernel paging request for data at address 0x600000002fa30010 Faulting instruction address: 0xc0000000001f1300 Thread overran stack, or stack corrupted Oops: Kernel access of bad area, sig: 11 [#1] BE SMP NR_CPUS=2048 DEBUG_PAGEALLOC NUMA pSeries Modules linked in: CPU: 1 PID: 6586 Comm: bash Not tainted 4.14.0-rc3-00162-g6e51f1f-dirty #20 task: c000000625c07200 task.stack: c000000625c07310 NIP: c0000000001f1300 LR: c000000000121cac CTR: c000000000061af8 REGS: c000000625c088c0 TRAP: 0380 Not tainted (4.14.0-rc3-00162-g6e51f1f-dirty) MSR: 8000000000001032 <SF,ME,IR,DR,RI> CR: 28002848 XER: 00000000 CFAR: c0000000001f1320 SOFTE: 0 ... NIP [c0000000001f1300] .__is_insn_slot_addr+0x30/0x90 LR [c000000000121cac] .kernel_text_address+0x18c/0x1c0 Call Trace: [c000000625c08b40] [c0000000001bd040] .is_module_text_address+0x20/0x40 (unreliable) [c000000625c08bc0] [c000000000121cac] .kernel_text_address+0x18c/0x1c0 [c000000625c08c50] [c000000000061960] .prepare_ftrace_return+0x50/0x130 [c000000625c08cf0] [c000000000061b10] .ftrace_graph_caller+0x14/0x34 [c000000625c08d60] [c000000000121b40] .kernel_text_address+0x20/0x1c0 [c000000625c08df0] [c000000000061960] .prepare_ftrace_return+0x50/0x130 ... [c000000625c0ab30] [c000000000061960] .prepare_ftrace_return+0x50/0x130 [c000000625c0abd0] [c000000000061b10] .ftrace_graph_caller+0x14/0x34 [c000000625c0ac40] [c000000000121b40] .kernel_text_address+0x20/0x1c0 [c000000625c0acd0] [c000000000061960] .prepare_ftrace_return+0x50/0x130 [c000000625c0ad70] [c000000000061b10] .ftrace_graph_caller+0x14/0x34 [c000000625c0ade0] [c000000000121b40] .kernel_text_address+0x20/0x1c0 This is because ftrace is using ppc_function_entry() for obtaining the address of return_to_handler() in prepare_ftrace_return(). The call to kernel_text_address() itself gets traced and we end up in a recursive loop. Fixes: 83e840c770f2 ("powerpc64/elfv1: Only dereference function descriptor for non-text symbols") Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org # v4.13+ Reported-by: Chandan Rajendra <chandan@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Naveen N. Rao <naveen.n.rao@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au>
Diffstat (limited to 'arch')
-rw-r--r--arch/powerpc/include/asm/code-patching.h10
1 files changed, 1 insertions, 9 deletions
diff --git a/arch/powerpc/include/asm/code-patching.h b/arch/powerpc/include/asm/code-patching.h
index 5482928eea1b..abef812de7f8 100644
--- a/arch/powerpc/include/asm/code-patching.h
+++ b/arch/powerpc/include/asm/code-patching.h
@@ -83,16 +83,8 @@ static inline unsigned long ppc_function_entry(void *func)
* On PPC64 ABIv1 the function pointer actually points to the
* function's descriptor. The first entry in the descriptor is the
* address of the function text.
- *
- * However, we may also receive pointer to an assembly symbol. To
- * detect that, we first check if the function pointer we receive
- * already points to kernel/module text and we only dereference it
- * if it doesn't.
*/
- if (kernel_text_address((unsigned long)func))
- return (unsigned long)func;
- else
- return ((func_descr_t *)func)->entry;
+ return ((func_descr_t *)func)->entry;
#else
return (unsigned long)func;
#endif