[PATCH] kdb: use correct pointer when 'btc' calls 'btt'
Daniel Thompson
daniel.thompson at linaro.org
Mon Sep 17 05:06:10 AEST 2018
On Fri, Sep 14, 2018 at 12:35:44PM +0000, Christophe Leroy wrote:
> On a powerpc 8xx, 'btc' fails as follows:
>
> Entering kdb (current=0x(ptrval), pid 282) due to Keyboard Entry
> kdb> btc
> btc: cpu status: Currently on cpu 0
> Available cpus: 0
> kdb_getarea: Bad address 0x0
>
> when booting the kernel with 'debug_boot_weak_hash', it fails as well
>
> Entering kdb (current=0xba99ad80, pid 284) due to Keyboard Entry
> kdb> btc
> btc: cpu status: Currently on cpu 0
> Available cpus: 0
> kdb_getarea: Bad address 0xba99ad80
>
> On other platforms, Oopses have been observed too, see
> https://github.com/linuxppc/linux/issues/139
>
> This is due to btc calling 'btt' with %p pointer as an argument.
>
> This patch replaces %p by %px to get the real pointer value as
> expected by 'btt'
>
> Signed-off-by: Christophe Leroy <christophe.leroy at c-s.fr>
> Cc: <stable at vger.kernel.org> # 4.15+
Would a Fixes: be better here?
Fixes: ad67b74d2469d9b82 ("printk: hash addresses printed with %p")
No blame attached to Tobin, but the fixes makes it super clear what
changed and why this breaks kdb (which was not explicitly called out
the patch description).
Daniel.
> ---
> kernel/debug/kdb/kdb_bt.c | 4 ++--
> 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/kernel/debug/kdb/kdb_bt.c b/kernel/debug/kdb/kdb_bt.c
> index 6ad4a9fcbd6f..7921ae4fca8d 100644
> --- a/kernel/debug/kdb/kdb_bt.c
> +++ b/kernel/debug/kdb/kdb_bt.c
> @@ -179,14 +179,14 @@ kdb_bt(int argc, const char **argv)
> kdb_printf("no process for cpu %ld\n", cpu);
> return 0;
> }
> - sprintf(buf, "btt 0x%p\n", KDB_TSK(cpu));
> + sprintf(buf, "btt 0x%px\n", KDB_TSK(cpu));
> kdb_parse(buf);
> return 0;
> }
> kdb_printf("btc: cpu status: ");
> kdb_parse("cpu\n");
> for_each_online_cpu(cpu) {
> - sprintf(buf, "btt 0x%p\n", KDB_TSK(cpu));
> + sprintf(buf, "btt 0x%px\n", KDB_TSK(cpu));
> kdb_parse(buf);
> touch_nmi_watchdog();
> }
> --
> 2.13.3
>
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