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authorMasami Hiramatsu <masami.hiramatsu.pt@hitachi.com>2012-09-05 23:31:25 +0900
committerSteven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>2012-09-13 22:52:11 -0400
commitc6aaf4d0bb86e2154ea31a33804cec300611255f (patch)
tree34f973a7ee081daa773b8d4cea9cffaf28bf018a /kernel
parent47d5a5f88b9d25d6464c9b60c28f391e84e3ed65 (diff)
downloadlinux-c6aaf4d0bb86e2154ea31a33804cec300611255f.tar.gz
kprobes/x86: Fix to support jprobes on ftrace-based kprobe
Fix kprobes/x86 to support jprobes on ftrace-based kprobes.
Because of -mfentry support of ftrace, ftrace is now put
on the beginning of function where jprobes are put.

Originally ftrace-based kprobes doesn't support jprobe
because it will change regs->ip and ftrace doesn't support
changing IP and ftrace itself doesn't conflict jprobe.
However, ftrace -mfentry support moves mcount call on the
top of functions where jprobes are put. This means that
jprobe always conflicts with ftrace-based kprobe and fails.

This patch allows ftrace-based kprobes to support jprobes
by allowing to modify regs->ip and kprobes breakpoint
handler also allows to skip singlestepping because there
is a ftrace call (not an original instruction).

Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20120905143125.10329.90836.stgit@localhost.localdomain

Reported-by: Fengguang Wu <fengguang.wu@intel.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
Signed-off-by: Masami Hiramatsu <masami.hiramatsu.pt@hitachi.com>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'kernel')
-rw-r--r--kernel/kprobes.c3
1 files changed, 0 insertions, 3 deletions
diff --git a/kernel/kprobes.c b/kernel/kprobes.c
index 35b4315d84f5..098f396aa409 100644
--- a/kernel/kprobes.c
+++ b/kernel/kprobes.c
@@ -1418,9 +1418,6 @@ static __kprobes int check_kprobe_address_safe(struct kprobe *p,
 		/* Given address is not on the instruction boundary */
 		if ((unsigned long)p->addr != ftrace_addr)
 			return -EILSEQ;
-		/* break_handler (jprobe) can not work with ftrace */
-		if (p->break_handler)
-			return -EINVAL;
 		p->flags |= KPROBE_FLAG_FTRACE;
 #else	/* !KPROBES_CAN_USE_FTRACE */
 		return -EINVAL;