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authorJan Beulich <jbeulich@novell.com>2008-03-10 13:11:17 +0000
committerIngo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>2008-04-17 17:40:58 +0200
commit5b0e508415a83989fe704b4718a1a214bc333ca7 (patch)
treebf73f1e6b944c190441413cedfb49b05e04ffe6b /arch/x86/kernel/kprobes.c
parentf694010185c429629ad5a65245da08103e611852 (diff)
x86: prevent unconditional writes to DebugCtl MSR
Otherwise, enabling (or better, subsequent disabling) of single stepping would cause a kernel oops on CPUs not having this MSR. The patch could have been added a conditional to the MSR write in user_disable_single_step(), but centralizing the updates seems safer and (looking forward) better manageable. Signed-off-by: Jan Beulich <jbeulich@novell.com> Cc: Markus Metzger <markus.t.metzger@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Diffstat (limited to 'arch/x86/kernel/kprobes.c')
-rw-r--r--arch/x86/kernel/kprobes.c4
1 files changed, 2 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/arch/x86/kernel/kprobes.c b/arch/x86/kernel/kprobes.c
index 34a591283f5..1e3de7db9ad 100644
--- a/arch/x86/kernel/kprobes.c
+++ b/arch/x86/kernel/kprobes.c
@@ -410,13 +410,13 @@ static void __kprobes set_current_kprobe(struct kprobe *p, struct pt_regs *regs,
static void __kprobes clear_btf(void)
{
if (test_thread_flag(TIF_DEBUGCTLMSR))
- wrmsrl(MSR_IA32_DEBUGCTLMSR, 0);
+ update_debugctlmsr(0);
}
static void __kprobes restore_btf(void)
{
if (test_thread_flag(TIF_DEBUGCTLMSR))
- wrmsrl(MSR_IA32_DEBUGCTLMSR, current->thread.debugctlmsr);
+ update_debugctlmsr(current->thread.debugctlmsr);
}
static void __kprobes prepare_singlestep(struct kprobe *p, struct pt_regs *regs)