[PATCH -tip tracing/kprobes 5/6] kprobes/x86-64: Fix to move common_interrupt to .kprobes.text

Masami Hiramatsu mhiramat@redhat.com
Thu Aug 27 17:22:00 GMT 2009


Since nmi, debug and int3 returns to irq_return in the common_interrupt,
probing this function will cause int3-loop, so it should be marked
as __kprobes.

Signed-off-by: Masami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@redhat.com>
Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Cc: Ananth N Mavinakayanahalli <ananth@in.ibm.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
---

 arch/x86/kernel/entry_64.S |    8 ++++++++
 1 files changed, 8 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-)

diff --git a/arch/x86/kernel/entry_64.S b/arch/x86/kernel/entry_64.S
index c251be7..36e2ef5 100644
--- a/arch/x86/kernel/entry_64.S
+++ b/arch/x86/kernel/entry_64.S
@@ -809,6 +809,10 @@ END(interrupt)
 	call \func
 	.endm
 
+/*
+ * Interrupt entry/exit should be protected against kprobes
+ */
+	.pushsection .kprobes.text, "ax"
 	/*
 	 * The interrupt stubs push (~vector+0x80) onto the stack and
 	 * then jump to common_interrupt.
@@ -947,6 +951,10 @@ ENTRY(retint_kernel)
 
 	CFI_ENDPROC
 END(common_interrupt)
+/*
+ * End of kprobes section
+ */
+       .popsection
 
 /*
  * APIC interrupts.


-- 
Masami Hiramatsu

Software Engineer
Hitachi Computer Products (America), Inc.
Software Solutions Division

e-mail: mhiramat@redhat.com



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