When a program check exception happens while MMU translation is disabled, following Oops happens in kprobe_handler() in the following test:
} else if (*addr != BREAKPOINT_INSTRUCTION) { [ 33.098554] BUG: Unable to handle kernel data access on read at 0x0000e268 [ 33.105091] Faulting instruction address: 0xc000ec34 [ 33.110010] Oops: Kernel access of bad area, sig: 11 [#1] [ 33.115348] BE PAGE_SIZE=16K PREEMPT CMPC885 [ 33.119540] Modules linked in: [ 33.122591] CPU: 0 PID: 429 Comm: cat Not tainted 5.6.0-rc1-s3k-dev-00824-g84195dc6c58a #3267 [ 33.131005] NIP: c000ec34 LR: c000ecd8 CTR: c019cab8 [ 33.136002] REGS: ca4d3b58 TRAP: 0300 Not tainted (5.6.0-rc1-s3k-dev-00824-g84195dc6c58a) [ 33.144324] MSR: 00001032 <ME,IR,DR,RI> CR: 2a4d3c52 XER: 00000000 [ 33.150699] DAR: 0000e268 DSISR: c0000000 [ 33.150699] GPR00: c000b09c ca4d3c10 c66d0620 00000000 ca4d3c60 00000000 00009032 00000000 [ 33.150699] GPR08: 00020000 00000000 c087de44 c000afe0 c66d0ad0 100d3dd6 fffffff3 00000000 [ 33.150699] GPR16: 00000000 00000041 00000000 ca4d3d70 00000000 00000000 0000416d 00000000 [ 33.150699] GPR24: 00000004 c53b6128 00000000 0000e268 00000000 c07c0000 c07bb6fc ca4d3c60 [ 33.188015] NIP [c000ec34] kprobe_handler+0x128/0x290 [ 33.192989] LR [c000ecd8] kprobe_handler+0x1cc/0x290 [ 33.197854] Call Trace: [ 33.200340] [ca4d3c30] [c000b09c] program_check_exception+0xbc/0x6fc [ 33.206590] [ca4d3c50] [c000e43c] ret_from_except_full+0x0/0x4 [ 33.212392] --- interrupt: 700 at 0xe268 [ 33.270401] Instruction dump: [ 33.273335] 913e0008 81220000 38600001 3929ffff 91220000 80010024 bb410008 7c0803a6 [ 33.280992] 38210020 4e800020 38600000 4e800020 <813b0000> 6d2a7fe0 2f8a0008 419e0154 [ 33.288841] ---[ end trace 5b9152d4cdadd06d ]--- Check MSR and convert regs->nip to virtual address if the trap happened with MSR_IR cleared. Reported-by: Larry Finger <larry.fin...@lwfinger.net> Fixes: 6cc89bad60a6 ("powerpc/kprobes: Invoke handlers directly") Cc: sta...@kernel.vger.org Cc: Naveen N. Rao <naveen.n....@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Christophe Leroy <christophe.le...@c-s.fr> --- The bug might have existed even before that commit from Naveen. Signed-off-by: Christophe Leroy <christophe.le...@c-s.fr> --- arch/powerpc/kernel/kprobes.c | 4 ++++ 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+) diff --git a/arch/powerpc/kernel/kprobes.c b/arch/powerpc/kernel/kprobes.c index 2d27ec4feee4..f8b848aa65bd 100644 --- a/arch/powerpc/kernel/kprobes.c +++ b/arch/powerpc/kernel/kprobes.c @@ -23,6 +23,7 @@ #include <asm/cacheflush.h> #include <asm/sstep.h> #include <asm/sections.h> +#include <asm/io.h> #include <linux/uaccess.h> DEFINE_PER_CPU(struct kprobe *, current_kprobe) = NULL; @@ -264,6 +265,9 @@ int kprobe_handler(struct pt_regs *regs) if (user_mode(regs)) return 0; + if (!(regs->msr & MSR_IR)) + addr = phys_to_virt(regs->nip); + /* * We don't want to be preempted for the entire * duration of kprobe processing -- 2.25.0