[PATCH] powerpc: Fix single step emulation of 32bit overflowed branches

Michael Neuling mikey at neuling.org
Mon May 6 21:32:40 EST 2013


Check truncate_if_32bit() on final write to nip.

Signed-off-by: Michael Neuling <mikey at neuling.org>

diff --git a/arch/powerpc/lib/sstep.c b/arch/powerpc/lib/sstep.c
index e15c521..99c7fc1 100644
--- a/arch/powerpc/lib/sstep.c
+++ b/arch/powerpc/lib/sstep.c
@@ -580,7 +580,7 @@ int __kprobes emulate_step(struct pt_regs *regs, unsigned int instr)
 		if (instr & 1)
 			regs->link = regs->nip;
 		if (branch_taken(instr, regs))
-			regs->nip = imm;
+			regs->nip = truncate_if_32bit(regs->msr, imm);
 		return 1;
 #ifdef CONFIG_PPC64
 	case 17:	/* sc */


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