From: Petr Mladek <pmladek@suse.cz>
To: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>,
Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>,
Masami Hiramatsu <masami.hiramatsu.pt@hitachi.com>,
"Paul E. McKenney" <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>,
Jiri Kosina <jkosina@suse.cz>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, x86@kernel.org,
Petr Mladek <pmladek@suse.cz>
Subject: [PATCH 3/4] x86: BUG when ftrace patching recovery fails
Date: Mon, 17 Feb 2014 16:22:52 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1392650573-3390-4-git-send-email-pmladek@suse.cz> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1392650573-3390-1-git-send-email-pmladek@suse.cz>
Ftrace modifies function calls using Int3 breakpoints on x86.
The breakpoints are handled only when the patching is in progress.
If something goes wrong, there is a recovery code that removes
the breakpoints. If this fails, the system might get silently
rebooted when a remaining break is not handled or an invalid
instruction is proceed.
A better solution is to BUG() when the recovery fails. It helps
to point to the sinner responsible for the reboot.
Signed-off-by: Petr Mladek <pmladek@suse.cz>
---
arch/x86/kernel/ftrace.c | 11 +++++++++--
1 file changed, 9 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
diff --git a/arch/x86/kernel/ftrace.c b/arch/x86/kernel/ftrace.c
index 30d63c4a4195..525a9f954c8b 100644
--- a/arch/x86/kernel/ftrace.c
+++ b/arch/x86/kernel/ftrace.c
@@ -424,7 +424,7 @@ static int remove_breakpoint(struct dyn_ftrace *rec)
/* If this does not have a breakpoint, we are done */
if (ins[0] != BREAKPOINT_INSTRUCTION)
- return -1;
+ return 0;
/* Check if it is nop instruction */
valid_ins = ftrace_nop_replace();
@@ -625,8 +625,15 @@ void ftrace_replace_code(int enable)
ftrace_bug(ret, rec ? rec->ip : 0);
printk(KERN_WARNING "Failed on %s (%d):\n", report, count);
for_ftrace_rec_iter(iter) {
+ int err;
+
rec = ftrace_rec_iter_record(iter);
- remove_breakpoint(rec);
+ err = remove_breakpoint(rec);
+ /*
+ * The breakpoints will not be handled after this function
+ * finishes. Let's stop on a well defined point.
+ */
+ BUG_ON(err);
}
}
--
1.8.4
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2014-02-17 15:24 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 14+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2014-02-17 15:22 [PATCH 0/4] x86: Fix ftrace recovery when code modification failed Petr Mladek
2014-02-17 15:22 ` [PATCH 1/4] x86: Clean up remove_breakpoint() in ftrace code Petr Mladek
2014-02-17 15:22 ` [PATCH 2/4] x86: Fix ftrace patching recovery code to work on x86_64 Petr Mladek
2014-02-17 15:22 ` Petr Mladek [this message]
2014-02-17 15:22 ` [PATCH 4/4] x86: Fix order of warning messages when ftrace modifies code Petr Mladek
2014-03-06 23:19 ` Steven Rostedt
2014-03-07 8:43 ` Petr Mládek
2014-03-07 18:15 ` Steven Rostedt
2014-03-07 18:18 ` Steven Rostedt
2014-03-10 8:37 ` Petr Mládek
2014-03-10 12:50 ` Steven Rostedt
2014-02-21 4:23 ` [PATCH 0/4] x86: Fix ftrace recovery when code modification failed Steven Rostedt
2014-02-21 16:33 ` Petr Mládek
2014-02-21 18:01 ` Steven Rostedt
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