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authorNicolas Pitre <nico@cam.org>2007-12-14 15:56:01 -0500
committerRussell King <rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk>2008-01-26 15:25:17 +0000
commitd30a0c8bf99f0e6a7d8c57bd4524039585ffbced (patch)
tree8177015c7fe37b05df24165195a4027508ac4d7f /arch
parentARM kprobes: add the kprobes hook to the page fault handler (diff)
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ARM kprobes: don't let a single-stepped stmdb corrupt the exception stack
If kprobes installs a breakpoint on a "stmdb sp!, {...}" instruction, and then single-step it by simulation from the exception context, it will corrupt the saved regs on the stack from the previous context. To avoid this, let's add an optional parameter to the svc_entry macro allowing for a hole to be created on the stack before saving the interrupted context, and use it in the undef_svc handler when kprobes is enabled. Signed-off-by: Nicolas Pitre <nico@marvell.com>
Diffstat (limited to 'arch')
-rw-r--r--arch/arm/kernel/entry-armv.S13
1 files changed, 10 insertions, 3 deletions
diff --git a/arch/arm/kernel/entry-armv.S b/arch/arm/kernel/entry-armv.S
index 29dec080a604..12ecc817be3f 100644
--- a/arch/arm/kernel/entry-armv.S
+++ b/arch/arm/kernel/entry-armv.S
@@ -112,8 +112,8 @@ common_invalid:
#define SPFIX(code...)
#endif
- .macro svc_entry
- sub sp, sp, #S_FRAME_SIZE
+ .macro svc_entry, stack_hole=0
+ sub sp, sp, #(S_FRAME_SIZE + \stack_hole)
SPFIX( tst sp, #4 )
SPFIX( bicne sp, sp, #4 )
stmib sp, {r1 - r12}
@@ -121,7 +121,7 @@ common_invalid:
ldmia r0, {r1 - r3}
add r5, sp, #S_SP @ here for interlock avoidance
mov r4, #-1 @ "" "" "" ""
- add r0, sp, #S_FRAME_SIZE @ "" "" "" ""
+ add r0, sp, #(S_FRAME_SIZE + \stack_hole)
SPFIX( addne r0, r0, #4 )
str r1, [sp] @ save the "real" r0 copied
@ from the exception stack
@@ -242,7 +242,14 @@ svc_preempt:
.align 5
__und_svc:
+#ifdef CONFIG_KPROBES
+ @ If a kprobe is about to simulate a "stmdb sp..." instruction,
+ @ it obviously needs free stack space which then will belong to
+ @ the saved context.
+ svc_entry 64
+#else
svc_entry
+#endif
@
@ call emulation code, which returns using r9 if it has emulated