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powerpc/kprobe: Fix oops when kprobed on 'stdu' instruction
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If we set a kprobe on a 'stdu' instruction on powerpc64, we see a kernel
OOPS:

  Bad kernel stack pointer cd93c840 at c000000000009868
  Oops: Bad kernel stack pointer, sig: 6 [#1]
  ...
  GPR00: c000001fcd93cb30 00000000cd93c840 c0000000015c5e00 00000000cd93c840
  ...
  NIP [c000000000009868] resume_kernel+0x2c/0x58
  LR [c000000000006208] program_check_common+0x108/0x180

On a 64-bit system when the user probes on a 'stdu' instruction, the kernel does
not emulate actual store in emulate_step() because it may corrupt the exception
frame. So the kernel does the actual store operation in exception return code
i.e. resume_kernel().

resume_kernel() loads the saved stack pointer from memory using lwz, which only
loads the low 32-bits of the address, causing the kernel crash.

Fix this by loading the 64-bit value instead.

Fixes: be96f63 ("powerpc: Split out instruction analysis part of emulate_step()")
Cc: [email protected] # v3.18+
Signed-off-by: Ravi Bangoria <[email protected]>
Reviewed-by: Naveen N. Rao <[email protected]>
Reviewed-by: Ananth N Mavinakayanahalli <[email protected]>
[mpe: Change log massage, add stable tag]
Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman <[email protected]>
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Ravi Bangoria authored and mpe committed Apr 18, 2017
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6 changes: 3 additions & 3 deletions arch/powerpc/kernel/entry_64.S
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Expand Up @@ -689,7 +689,7 @@ resume_kernel:

addi r8,r1,INT_FRAME_SIZE /* Get the kprobed function entry */

lwz r3,GPR1(r1)
ld r3,GPR1(r1)
subi r3,r3,INT_FRAME_SIZE /* dst: Allocate a trampoline exception frame */
mr r4,r1 /* src: current exception frame */
mr r1,r3 /* Reroute the trampoline frame to r1 */
Expand All @@ -703,8 +703,8 @@ resume_kernel:
addi r6,r6,8
bdnz 2b

/* Do real store operation to complete stwu */
lwz r5,GPR1(r1)
/* Do real store operation to complete stdu */
ld r5,GPR1(r1)
std r8,0(r5)

/* Clear _TIF_EMULATE_STACK_STORE flag */
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