[PATCH 4/4] ppc32/kprobe: don't emulate store when kprobe stwu r1

Tiejun Chen tiejun.chen at windriver.com
Mon Dec 12 19:50:53 EST 2011


We don't do the real store operation for kprobing 'stwu Rx,(y)R1'
since this may corrupt the exception frame, now we will do this
operation safely in exception return code after migrate current
exception frame below the kprobed function stack.

So we only update gpr[1] here and trigger a thread flag to mask
this.

Signed-off-by: Tiejun Chen <tiejun.chen at windriver.com>
---
 arch/powerpc/lib/sstep.c |   19 +++++++++++++++++--
 1 files changed, 17 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/arch/powerpc/lib/sstep.c b/arch/powerpc/lib/sstep.c
index 9a52349..78b7168 100644
--- a/arch/powerpc/lib/sstep.c
+++ b/arch/powerpc/lib/sstep.c
@@ -566,7 +566,7 @@ int __kprobes emulate_step(struct pt_regs *regs, unsigned int instr)
 	unsigned long int ea;
 	unsigned int cr, mb, me, sh;
 	int err;
-	unsigned long old_ra;
+	unsigned long old_ra, val3;
 	long ival;
 
 	opcode = instr >> 26;
@@ -1486,10 +1486,25 @@ int __kprobes emulate_step(struct pt_regs *regs, unsigned int instr)
 		goto ldst_done;
 
 	case 36:	/* stw */
-	case 37:	/* stwu */
 		val = regs->gpr[rd];
 		err = write_mem(val, dform_ea(instr, regs), 4, regs);
 		goto ldst_done;
+	case 37:	/* stwu */
+		val = regs->gpr[rd];
+		val3 = dform_ea(instr, regs);
+		/* For PPC32 we always use stwu to change stack point with r1. So
+		 * this emulated store may corrupt the exception frame, now we
+		 * have to provide the exception frame trampoline, which is pushed
+		 * below the kprobed function stack. So we only update gpr[1] but
+		 * don't emulate the real store operation. We will do real store
+		 * operation safely in exception return code by checking this flag.
+		 */
+		if (ra == 1) {
+			set_thread_flag(TIF_KPROBE);
+			err = 0;
+		} else
+			err = write_mem(val, val3, 4, regs);
+		goto ldst_done;
 
 	case 38:	/* stb */
 	case 39:	/* stbu */
-- 
1.5.6



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