[PATCH] powerpc/hw_brk: Fix off by one error when validating DAWR region end

Michael Neuling mikey at neuling.org
Mon Jul 1 14:19:50 EST 2013


The Data Address Watchpoint Register (DAWR) on POWER8 can take a 512
byte range but this range must not cross a 512 byte boundary.

Unfortunately we were off by one when calculating the end of the region,
hence we were not allowing some breakpoint regions which were actually
valid.  This fixes this error.

Signed-off-by: Michael Neuling <mikey at neuling.org>
Reported-by: Edjunior Barbosa Machado <emachado at linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: stable at vger.kernel.org # 3.9+

diff --git a/arch/powerpc/kernel/hw_breakpoint.c b/arch/powerpc/kernel/hw_breakpoint.c
index 1150ae7..f0b47d1 100644
--- a/arch/powerpc/kernel/hw_breakpoint.c
+++ b/arch/powerpc/kernel/hw_breakpoint.c
@@ -176,7 +176,7 @@ int arch_validate_hwbkpt_settings(struct perf_event *bp)
 		length_max = 512 ; /* 64 doublewords */
 		/* DAWR region can't cross 512 boundary */
 		if ((bp->attr.bp_addr >> 10) != 
-		    ((bp->attr.bp_addr + bp->attr.bp_len) >> 10))
+		    ((bp->attr.bp_addr + bp->attr.bp_len - 1) >> 10))
 			return -EINVAL;
 	}
 	if (info->len >


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