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authorFrederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>2010-11-11 21:18:43 +0100
committerAndi Kleen <ak@linux.intel.com>2010-12-14 23:40:15 +0100
commit1442b66f3af5b6ecfb7d70f21c5d062f7c108e0b (patch)
tree075aa36221fecedb78660b28633b9a3514805581
parenta28c2bb7f58fad804d4673eb37b7c0436b945f15 (diff)
x86: Ignore trap bits on single step exceptions
commit 6c0aca288e726405b01dacb12cac556454d34b2a upstream. When a single step exception fires, the trap bits, used to signal hardware breakpoints, are in a random state. These trap bits might be set if another exception will follow, like a breakpoint in the next instruction, or a watchpoint in the previous one. Or there can be any junk there. So if we handle these trap bits during the single step exception, we are going to handle an exception twice, or we are going to handle junk. Just ignore them in this case. This fixes https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=21332 Reported-by: Michael Stefaniuc <mstefani@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com> Cc: Rafael J. Wysocki <rjw@sisk.pl> Cc: Maciej Rutecki <maciej.rutecki@gmail.com> Cc: Alexandre Julliard <julliard@winehq.org> Cc: Jason Wessel <jason.wessel@windriver.com> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de> Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@linux.intel.com>
-rw-r--r--arch/x86/kernel/hw_breakpoint.c4
1 files changed, 4 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/arch/x86/kernel/hw_breakpoint.c b/arch/x86/kernel/hw_breakpoint.c
index a8f1b803d2f..f3654702099 100644
--- a/arch/x86/kernel/hw_breakpoint.c
+++ b/arch/x86/kernel/hw_breakpoint.c
@@ -421,6 +421,10 @@ static int __kprobes hw_breakpoint_handler(struct die_args *args)
dr6_p = (unsigned long *)ERR_PTR(args->err);
dr6 = *dr6_p;
+ /* If it's a single step, TRAP bits are random */
+ if (dr6 & DR_STEP)
+ return NOTIFY_DONE;
+
/* Do an early return if no trap bits are set in DR6 */
if ((dr6 & DR_TRAP_BITS) == 0)
return NOTIFY_DONE;