From: Keshavamurthy Anil S This patch addresses a potential race condition for a case where Kprobe has been removed right after another CPU has taken a break hit. The way this is addressed here is when the CPU that has taken a break hit does not find its corresponding kprobe, then we check to see if the original instruction got replaced with other than break. If it got replaced with other than break instruction, then we continue to execute from the replaced instruction, else if we find that it is still a break, then we let the kernel handle this, as this might be the break instruction inserted by other than kprobe(may be kernel debugger). Signed-off-by: Anil S Keshavamurthy Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton --- arch/ia64/kernel/kprobes.c | 45 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ 1 files changed, 45 insertions(+) diff -puN arch/ia64/kernel/kprobes.c~kprobes-ia64-fix-race-when-break-hits-and-kprobe-not-found arch/ia64/kernel/kprobes.c --- devel/arch/ia64/kernel/kprobes.c~kprobes-ia64-fix-race-when-break-hits-and-kprobe-not-found 2005-07-12 22:48:49.000000000 -0700 +++ devel-akpm/arch/ia64/kernel/kprobes.c 2005-07-12 22:48:49.000000000 -0700 @@ -554,6 +554,38 @@ static void __kprobes prepare_ss(struct ia64_psr(regs)->ss = 1; } +static int __kprobes is_ia64_break_inst(struct pt_regs *regs) +{ + unsigned int slot = ia64_psr(regs)->ri; + unsigned int template, major_opcode; + unsigned long kprobe_inst; + unsigned long *kprobe_addr = (unsigned long *)regs->cr_iip; + bundle_t bundle; + + memcpy(&bundle, kprobe_addr, sizeof(bundle_t)); + template = bundle.quad0.template; + + /* Move to slot 2, if bundle is MLX type and kprobe slot is 1 */ + if (slot == 1 && bundle_encoding[template][1] == L) + slot++; + + /* Get Kprobe probe instruction at given slot*/ + get_kprobe_inst(&bundle, slot, &kprobe_inst, &major_opcode); + + /* For break instruction, + * Bits 37:40 Major opcode to be zero + * Bits 27:32 X6 to be zero + * Bits 32:35 X3 to be zero + */ + if (major_opcode || ((kprobe_inst >> 27) & 0x1FF) ) { + /* Not a break instruction */ + return 0; + } + + /* Is a break instruction */ + return 1; +} + static int __kprobes pre_kprobes_handler(struct die_args *args) { struct kprobe *p; @@ -601,6 +633,19 @@ static int __kprobes pre_kprobes_handler p = get_kprobe(addr); if (!p) { unlock_kprobes(); + if (!is_ia64_break_inst(regs)) { + /* + * The breakpoint instruction was removed right + * after we hit it. Another cpu has removed + * either a probepoint or a debugger breakpoint + * at this address. In either case, no further + * handling of this interrupt is appropriate. + */ + ret = 1; + + } + + /* Not one of our break, let kernel handle it */ goto no_kprobe; } _