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| author | Arjan van de Ven <arjan@linux.intel.com> | 2008-08-16 00:29:38 +0200 |
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| committer | Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> | 2008-09-10 09:08:53 +0200 |
| commit | ab7476cf76e560f0efda2a631a70aabe93009025 (patch) | |
| tree | d4e843760774d7099692950a6ac49ccdbc8b0d55 | |
| parent | softlockup: increase hung tasks check from 2 minutes to 8 minutes (diff) | |
| download | linux-ab7476cf76e560f0efda2a631a70aabe93009025.tar.xz linux-ab7476cf76e560f0efda2a631a70aabe93009025.zip | |
debug: add notifier chain debugging, v2
- unbreak ia64 (and powerpc) where function pointers dont
point at code but at data (reported by Tony Luck)
[ mingo@elte.hu: various cleanups ]
Signed-off-by: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@linux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
| -rw-r--r-- | include/linux/kernel.h | 3 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | kernel/extable.c | 16 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | kernel/notifier.c | 10 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | lib/vsprintf.c | 2 |
4 files changed, 21 insertions, 10 deletions
diff --git a/include/linux/kernel.h b/include/linux/kernel.h index 2651f805ba6d..4e1366b552ae 100644 --- a/include/linux/kernel.h +++ b/include/linux/kernel.h @@ -187,6 +187,9 @@ extern unsigned long long memparse(char *ptr, char **retptr); extern int core_kernel_text(unsigned long addr); extern int __kernel_text_address(unsigned long addr); extern int kernel_text_address(unsigned long addr); +extern int func_ptr_is_kernel_text(void *ptr); +extern void *dereference_function_descriptor(void *ptr); + struct pid; extern struct pid *session_of_pgrp(struct pid *pgrp); diff --git a/kernel/extable.c b/kernel/extable.c index a26cb2e17023..adf0cc9c02d6 100644 --- a/kernel/extable.c +++ b/kernel/extable.c @@ -66,3 +66,19 @@ int kernel_text_address(unsigned long addr) return 1; return module_text_address(addr) != NULL; } + +/* + * On some architectures (PPC64, IA64) function pointers + * are actually only tokens to some data that then holds the + * real function address. As a result, to find if a function + * pointer is part of the kernel text, we need to do some + * special dereferencing first. + */ +int func_ptr_is_kernel_text(void *ptr) +{ + unsigned long addr; + addr = (unsigned long) dereference_function_descriptor(ptr); + if (core_kernel_text(addr)) + return 1; + return module_text_address(addr) != NULL; +} diff --git a/kernel/notifier.c b/kernel/notifier.c index 143fdd77dbf7..0f39e398ef60 100644 --- a/kernel/notifier.c +++ b/kernel/notifier.c @@ -21,10 +21,6 @@ BLOCKING_NOTIFIER_HEAD(reboot_notifier_list); static int notifier_chain_register(struct notifier_block **nl, struct notifier_block *n) { - if (!kernel_text_address((unsigned long)n->notifier_call)) { - WARN(1, "Invalid notifier registered!"); - return 0; - } while ((*nl) != NULL) { if (n->priority > (*nl)->priority) break; @@ -38,10 +34,6 @@ static int notifier_chain_register(struct notifier_block **nl, static int notifier_chain_cond_register(struct notifier_block **nl, struct notifier_block *n) { - if (!kernel_text_address((unsigned long)n->notifier_call)) { - WARN(1, "Invalid notifier registered!"); - return 0; - } while ((*nl) != NULL) { if ((*nl) == n) return 0; @@ -92,7 +84,7 @@ static int __kprobes notifier_call_chain(struct notifier_block **nl, next_nb = rcu_dereference(nb->next); #ifdef CONFIG_DEBUG_NOTIFIERS - if (!kernel_text_address((unsigned long)nb->notifier_call)) { + if (unlikely(!func_ptr_is_kernel_text(nb->notifier_call))) { WARN(1, "Invalid notifier called!"); nb = next_nb; continue; diff --git a/lib/vsprintf.c b/lib/vsprintf.c index d8d1d1142248..f5e5ffb9942f 100644 --- a/lib/vsprintf.c +++ b/lib/vsprintf.c @@ -513,7 +513,7 @@ static char *string(char *buf, char *end, char *s, int field_width, int precisio return buf; } -static inline void *dereference_function_descriptor(void *ptr) +void *dereference_function_descriptor(void *ptr) { #if defined(CONFIG_IA64) || defined(CONFIG_PPC64) void *p; |