[PATCH 3.19.y-ckt 74/86] ARM: 8425/1: kgdb: Don't try to stop the machine when setting breakpoints

From: Kamal Mostafa
Date: Tue Oct 27 2015 - 17:52:31 EST


3.19.8-ckt9 -stable review patch. If anyone has any objections, please let me know.

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From: Doug Anderson <armlinux@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>

commit 7ae85dc7687c7e7119053d83d02c560ea217b772 upstream.

In (23a4e40 arm: kgdb: Handle read-only text / modules) we moved to
using patch_text() to set breakpoints so that we could handle the case
when we had CONFIG_DEBUG_RODATA. That patch used patch_text().
Unfortunately, patch_text() assumes that we're not in atomic context
when it runs since it needs to grab a mutex and also wait for other
CPUs to stop (which it does with a completion).

This would result in a stack crawl if you had
CONFIG_DEBUG_ATOMIC_SLEEP and tried to set a breakpoint in kgdb. The
crawl looked something like:

BUG: scheduling while atomic: swapper/0/0/0x00010007
CPU: 0 PID: 0 Comm: swapper/0 Not tainted 4.2.0-rc7-00133-geb63b34 #1073
Hardware name: Rockchip (Device Tree)
(unwind_backtrace) from [<c00133d4>] (show_stack+0x20/0x24)
(show_stack) from [<c05400e8>] (dump_stack+0x84/0xb8)
(dump_stack) from [<c004913c>] (__schedule_bug+0x54/0x6c)
(__schedule_bug) from [<c054065c>] (__schedule+0x80/0x668)
(__schedule) from [<c0540cfc>] (schedule+0xb8/0xd4)
(schedule) from [<c0543a3c>] (schedule_timeout+0x2c/0x234)
(schedule_timeout) from [<c05417c0>] (wait_for_common+0xf4/0x188)
(wait_for_common) from [<c0541874>] (wait_for_completion+0x20/0x24)
(wait_for_completion) from [<c00a0104>] (__stop_cpus+0x58/0x70)
(__stop_cpus) from [<c00a0580>] (stop_cpus+0x3c/0x54)
(stop_cpus) from [<c00a06c4>] (__stop_machine+0xcc/0xe8)
(__stop_machine) from [<c00a0714>] (stop_machine+0x34/0x44)
(stop_machine) from [<c00173e8>] (patch_text+0x28/0x34)
(patch_text) from [<c001733c>] (kgdb_arch_set_breakpoint+0x40/0x4c)
(kgdb_arch_set_breakpoint) from [<c00a0d68>] (kgdb_validate_break_address+0x2c/0x60)
(kgdb_validate_break_address) from [<c00a0e90>] (dbg_set_sw_break+0x1c/0xdc)
(dbg_set_sw_break) from [<c00a2e88>] (gdb_serial_stub+0x9c4/0xba4)
(gdb_serial_stub) from [<c00a11cc>] (kgdb_cpu_enter+0x1f8/0x60c)
(kgdb_cpu_enter) from [<c00a18cc>] (kgdb_handle_exception+0x19c/0x1d0)
(kgdb_handle_exception) from [<c0016f7c>] (kgdb_compiled_brk_fn+0x30/0x3c)
(kgdb_compiled_brk_fn) from [<c00091a4>] (do_undefinstr+0x1a4/0x20c)
(do_undefinstr) from [<c001400c>] (__und_svc_finish+0x0/0x34)

It turns out that when we're in kgdb all the CPUs are stopped anyway
so there's no reason we should be calling patch_text(). We can
instead directly call __patch_text() which assumes that CPUs have
already been stopped.

Fixes: 23a4e4050ba9 ("arm: kgdb: Handle read-only text / modules")
Reported-by: Aapo Vienamo <avienamo@xxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Douglas Anderson <dianders@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Reviewed-by: Stephen Boyd <sboyd@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Acked-by: Kees Cook <keescook@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Russell King <rmk+kernel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Kamal Mostafa <kamal@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
arch/arm/kernel/kgdb.c | 8 +++++---
1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)

diff --git a/arch/arm/kernel/kgdb.c b/arch/arm/kernel/kgdb.c
index 07db2f8..0e59152 100644
--- a/arch/arm/kernel/kgdb.c
+++ b/arch/arm/kernel/kgdb.c
@@ -260,15 +260,17 @@ int kgdb_arch_set_breakpoint(struct kgdb_bkpt *bpt)
if (err)
return err;

- patch_text((void *)bpt->bpt_addr,
- *(unsigned int *)arch_kgdb_ops.gdb_bpt_instr);
+ /* Machine is already stopped, so we can use __patch_text() directly */
+ __patch_text((void *)bpt->bpt_addr,
+ *(unsigned int *)arch_kgdb_ops.gdb_bpt_instr);

return err;
}

int kgdb_arch_remove_breakpoint(struct kgdb_bkpt *bpt)
{
- patch_text((void *)bpt->bpt_addr, *(unsigned int *)bpt->saved_instr);
+ /* Machine is already stopped, so we can use __patch_text() directly */
+ __patch_text((void *)bpt->bpt_addr, *(unsigned int *)bpt->saved_instr);

return 0;
}
--
1.9.1

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