powerpc/watchpoint: Fix exception handling for CONFIG_HAVE_HW_BREAKPOINT=N
authorRavi Bangoria <ravi.bangoria@linux.ibm.com>
Wed, 2 Sep 2020 04:29:42 +0000 (09:59 +0530)
committerMichael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au>
Tue, 15 Sep 2020 12:13:20 +0000 (22:13 +1000)
commit5b905d77987de065bdd3a2906816b5f143df087b
tree0c35d7c18b1d8902425b792d1102835ca582af13
parentedc8dd99b29e4d705c45e2a3a6c01b096ee056db
powerpc/watchpoint: Fix exception handling for CONFIG_HAVE_HW_BREAKPOINT=N

On powerpc, ptrace watchpoint works in one-shot mode. i.e. kernel
disables event every time it fires and user has to re-enable it.
Also, in case of ptrace watchpoint, kernel notifies ptrace user
before executing instruction.

With CONFIG_HAVE_HW_BREAKPOINT=N, kernel is missing to disable
ptrace event and thus it's causing infinite loop of exceptions.
This is especially harmful when user watches on a data which is
also read/written by kernel, eg syscall parameters. In such case,
infinite exceptions happens in kernel mode which causes soft-lockup.

Fixes: 9422de3e953d ("powerpc: Hardware breakpoints rewrite to handle non DABR breakpoint registers")
Reported-by: Pedro Miraglia Franco de Carvalho <pedromfc@linux.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Ravi Bangoria <ravi.bangoria@linux.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20200902042945.129369-6-ravi.bangoria@linux.ibm.com
arch/powerpc/include/asm/hw_breakpoint.h
arch/powerpc/kernel/process.c
arch/powerpc/kernel/ptrace/ptrace-noadv.c