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Commit dcfc4724 authored by Masami Hiramatsu's avatar Masami Hiramatsu Committed by Ingo Molnar
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kprobes/x86: Clear TF bit in fault on single-stepping



Fix kprobe_fault_handler() to clear the TF (trap flag) bit of
the flags register in the case of a fault fixup on single-stepping.

If we put a kprobe on the instruction which caused a
page fault (e.g. actual mov instructions in copy_user_*),
that fault happens on the single-stepping buffer. In this
case, kprobes resets running instance so that the CPU can
retry execution on the original ip address.

However, current code forgets to reset the TF bit. Since this
fault happens with TF bit set for enabling single-stepping,
when it retries, it causes a debug exception and kprobes
can not handle it because it already reset itself.

On the most of x86-64 platform, it can be easily reproduced
by using kprobe tracer. E.g.

  # cd /sys/kernel/debug/tracing
  # echo p copy_user_enhanced_fast_string+5 > kprobe_events
  # echo 1 > events/kprobes/enable

And you'll see a kernel panic on do_debug(), since the debug
trap is not handled by kprobes.

To fix this problem, we just need to clear the TF bit when
resetting running kprobe.

Signed-off-by: default avatarMasami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@kernel.org>
Reviewed-by: default avatarAnanth N Mavinakayanahalli <ananth@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Acked-by: default avatarSteven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Cc: Alexander Shishkin <alexander.shishkin@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Andy Lutomirski <luto@kernel.org>
Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
Cc: Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de>
Cc: Brian Gerst <brgerst@gmail.com>
Cc: Denys Vlasenko <dvlasenk@redhat.com>
Cc: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
Cc: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@redhat.com>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Stephane Eranian <eranian@google.com>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: Vince Weaver <vincent.weaver@maine.edu>
Cc: systemtap@sourceware.org
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org # All the way back to ancient kernels
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20160611140648.25885.37482.stgit@devbox


[ Updated the comments. ]
Signed-off-by: default avatarIngo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
parent db06d759
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