[BUG?]3.0-rc4+ftrace+kprobe: set kprobe at instruction 'stwu' lead to system crash/freeze

[Steven Rostedt]

On Fri, 2011-06-24 at 17:21 +0800, Yong Zhang wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> When I use kprobe to do something, I found some wired thing.
> 
> When CONFIG_FUNCTION_TRACER is disabled:
> (gdb) disassemble do_fork
> Dump of assembler code for function do_fork:
>    0xc0037390 <+0>:	mflr    r0
>    0xc0037394 <+4>:	stwu    r1,-64(r1)
>    0xc0037398 <+8>:	mfcr    r12
>    0xc003739c <+12>:	stmw    r27,44(r1)
> 
> Then I:
> modprobe kprobe_example func=do_fork offset=4
> ls
> Things works well.
> 
> But when CONFIG_FUNCTION_TRACER is enabled:
> (gdb) disassemble do_fork
> Dump of assembler code for function do_fork:
>    0xc0040334 <+0>:	mflr    r0
>    0xc0040338 <+4>:	stw     r0,4(r1)
>    0xc004033c <+8>:	bl      0xc00109d4 <mcount>
>    0xc0040340 <+12>:	stwu    r1,-80(r1)
>    0xc0040344 <+16>:	mflr    r0
>    0xc0040348 <+20>:	stw     r0,84(r1)
>    0xc004034c <+24>:	mfcr    r12
> Then I:
> modprobe kprobe_example func=do_fork offset=12
> ls
> 'ls' will never retrun. system freeze.

I'm not sure if x86 had a similar issue.

Masami, have any ideas to why this happened?

I don't have a PPC32 to test on, but I can try it out on my PPC64.

-- Steve

> 
> I'm using toolchain from:http://www.denx.de/wiki/ELDK-5/WebHome
> powerpc-linux-gcc -v
> Using built-in specs.
> COLLECT_GCC=/opt/eldk-5.0/powerpc/sysroots/i686-oesdk-linux/usr/bin/powerpc-linux/powerpc-linux-gcc
> COLLECT_LTO_WRAPPER=/opt/eldk-5.0/powerpc/sysroots/i686-oesdk-linux/usr/libexec/powerpc-linux/gcc/powerpc-linux/4.5.1/lto-wrapper
> Target: powerpc-linux
> Configured with:
> /opt/poky/build/eldk-2011-05-20-5cde06e-powerpc/tmp/work/i686-nativesdk-oesdk-linux/gcc-cross-canadian-powerpc-4.5.1-r4/gcc-4.5.1/configure
> --build=x86_64-linux --host=i686-oesdk-linux --target=powerpc-linux
> --prefix=/opt/eldk-5.0/powerpc/sysroots/i686-oesdk-linux/usr
> --exec_prefix=/opt/eldk-5.0/powerpc/sysroots/i686-oesdk-linux/usr
> --bindir=/opt/eldk-5.0/powerpc/sysroots/i686-oesdk-linux/usr/bin/powerpc-linux
> --sbindir=/opt/eldk-5.0/powerpc/sysroots/i686-oesdk-linux/usr/bin/powerpc-linux
> --libexecdir=/opt/eldk-5.0/powerpc/sysroots/i686-oesdk-linux/usr/libexec/powerpc-linux
> --datadir=/opt/eldk-5.0/powerpc/sysroots/i686-oesdk-linux/usr/share
> --sysconfdir=/opt/eldk-5.0/powerpc/sysroots/i686-oesdk-linux/etc
> --sharedstatedir=/opt/eldk-5.0/powerpc/sysroots/i686-oesdk-linux/com
> --localstatedir=/opt/eldk-5.0/powerpc/sysroots/i686-oesdk-linux/var
> --libdir=/opt/eldk-5.0/powerpc/sysroots/i686-oesdk-linux/usr/lib/powerpc-linux
> --includedir=/opt/eldk-5.0/powerpc/sysroots/i686-oesdk-linux/usr/include
> --oldincludedir=/opt/eldk-5.0/powerpc/sysroots/i686-oesdk-linux/usr/include
> --infodir=/opt/eldk-5.0/powerpc/sysroots/i686-oesdk-linux/usr/share/info
> --mandir=/opt/eldk-5.0/powerpc/sysroots/i686-oesdk-linux/usr/share/man
> --with-libtool-sysroot=/opt/poky/build/eldk-2011-05-20-5cde06e-powerpc/tmp/sysroots/i686-oesdk-linux-nativesdk
> --with-gnu-ld --enable-shared --enable-languages=c,c++
> --enable-threads=posix --disable-multilib --enable-c99
> --enable-long-long --enable-symvers=gnu --enable-libstdcxx-pch
> --program-prefix=powerpc-linux- --enable-lto --enable-libssp
> --disable-bootstrap --disable-libgomp --disable-libmudflap
> --enable-cheaders=c_global
> --with-local-prefix=/opt/eldk-5.0/powerpc/sysroots/powerpc-linux/usr
> --with-gxx-include-dir=/usr/include/c++
> --with-build-time-tools=/opt/poky/build/eldk-2011-05-20-5cde06e-powerpc/tmp/sysroots/x86_64-linux/usr/powerpc-linux/bin
> --with-sysroot=/opt/eldk-5.0/powerpc/sysroots/powerpc-linux
> --with-build-sysroot=/opt/poky/build/eldk-2011-05-20-5cde06e-powerpc/tmp/sysroots/powerpc
> --disable-libunwind-exceptions --disable-libssp --disable-libgomp
> --disable-libmudflap
> --with-mpfr=/opt/poky/build/eldk-2011-05-20-5cde06e-powerpc/tmp/sysroots/i686-oesdk-linux-nativesdk
> --with-mpc=/opt/poky/build/eldk-2011-05-20-5cde06e-powerpc/tmp/sysroots/i686-oesdk-linux-nativesdk
> --enable-__cxa_atexit
> Thread model: posix
> gcc version 4.5.1 (GCC)
> 
> 
> And kernel config is attached.
> 
> BTW, I have made a patch to make kprobe_example set breakpoint easily,
> attached too.
> 
> Thanks,
> Yong
>