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 _______________________________________________ Linuxppc-dev mailing list Linuxppc-dev@ozlabs.org https://ozlabs.org/mailman/listinfo/linuxppc-dev