The following patch fixes the 64 bit user code backtrace 
which currently may hang the system.  

Signed-off-by: Carl Love <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

Index: linux-2.6.25.1/arch/powerpc/oprofile/backtrace.c
===================================================================
--- linux-2.6.25.1.orig/arch/powerpc/oprofile/backtrace.c       2008-05-01 
16:45:25.000000000 -0500
+++ linux-2.6.25.1/arch/powerpc/oprofile/backtrace.c    2008-05-07 
11:29:02.000000000 -0500
@@ -53,19 +53,40 @@
 #ifdef CONFIG_PPC64
 static unsigned long user_getsp64(unsigned long sp, int is_first)
 {
-       unsigned long stack_frame[3];
+       unsigned long stk_frm_lr;
+       unsigned long stk_frm_sp;
+       unsigned long size;
+
+       /* Issue the __copy_from_user_inatomic() third argument currently
+        * only takes sizes 1, 2, 4 or 8 bytes.  Don't read more then the 
+        * first 48 bytes of the stack frame.  That is all that is 
+        * guaranteed to exist.  Reading more may cause the system to hang.
+        *
+        * 64 bit stack frame layout:
+        * 0-7   bytes is the pointer to previous stack 
+        * 8-15  bytes condition register save area
+        * 16-23 bytes link register save area
+        */
+       size = sizeof(unsigned long);
+       if (!access_ok(VERIFY_READ, (void __user *)sp, size))
+               return 0;
 
-       if (!access_ok(VERIFY_READ, (void __user *)sp, sizeof(stack_frame)))
+       if (__copy_from_user_inatomic(&stk_frm_sp, (void __user *)sp,
+                                       size))
                return 0;
 
-       if (__copy_from_user_inatomic(stack_frame, (void __user *)sp,
-                                       sizeof(stack_frame)))
+       /* get the LR from the user stack */
+       if (!access_ok(VERIFY_READ, (void __user *)(sp+16), size))
+               return 0;
+
+       if (__copy_from_user_inatomic(&stk_frm_lr, (void __user *)(sp+16),
+                                       size))
                return 0;
 
        if (!is_first)
-               oprofile_add_trace(STACK_LR64(stack_frame));
+               oprofile_add_trace(stk_frm_lr);
 
-       return STACK_SP(stack_frame);
+       return stk_frm_sp;
 }
 #endif
 


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