[PATCH 1/2] powerpc: fix graceful debugger recovery

Nicholas Piggin npiggin at gmail.com
Tue Nov 8 23:14:44 AEDT 2016


When exiting xmon with 'x' (exit and recover), oops_begin bails
out immediately, but die then calls __die() and oops_end(), which
cause a lot of bad things to happen.

If the debugger was attached then went to graceful recovery, exit
from die() immediately.

Signed-off-by: Nicholas Piggin <npiggin at gmail.com>
---
 arch/powerpc/kernel/traps.c | 9 +++++----
 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)

diff --git a/arch/powerpc/kernel/traps.c b/arch/powerpc/kernel/traps.c
index 7480902..26c3ba4 100644
--- a/arch/powerpc/kernel/traps.c
+++ b/arch/powerpc/kernel/traps.c
@@ -122,9 +122,6 @@ static unsigned long oops_begin(struct pt_regs *regs)
 	int cpu;
 	unsigned long flags;
 
-	if (debugger(regs))
-		return 1;
-
 	oops_enter();
 
 	/* racy, but better than risking deadlock. */
@@ -227,8 +224,12 @@ NOKPROBE_SYMBOL(__die);
 
 void die(const char *str, struct pt_regs *regs, long err)
 {
-	unsigned long flags = oops_begin(regs);
+	unsigned long flags;
+
+	if (debugger(regs))
+		return;
 
+	flags = oops_begin(regs);
 	if (__die(str, regs, err))
 		err = 0;
 	oops_end(flags, regs, err);
-- 
2.10.2



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