linux/arch
Prasanna S.P d28c4393a7 [PATCH] x86: error_code is not safe for kprobes
This patch moves the entry.S:error_entry to .kprobes.text section,
since code marked unsafe for kprobes jumps directly to entry.S::error_entry,
that must be marked unsafe as well.
This patch also moves all the ".previous.text" asm directives to ".previous"
for kprobes section.

AK: Following a similar i386 patch from Chuck Ebbert
AK: Also merged Jeremy's fix in.

+From: Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy@goop.org>

KPROBE_ENTRY does a .section .kprobes.text, and expects its users to
do a .previous at the end of the function.

Unfortunately, if any code within the function switches sections, for
example .fixup, then the .previous ends up putting all subsequent code
into .fixup.  Worse, any subsequent .fixup code gets intermingled with
the code its supposed to be fixing (which is also in .fixup).  It's
surprising this didn't cause more havok.

The fix is to use .pushsection/.popsection, so this stuff nests
properly.  A further cleanup would be to get rid of all
.section/.previous pairs, since they're inherently fragile.

+From: Chuck Ebbert <76306.1226@compuserve.com>

Because code marked unsafe for kprobes jumps directly to
entry.S::error_code, that must be marked unsafe as well.
The easiest way to do that is to move the page fault entry
point to just before error_code and let it inherit the same
section.

Also moved all the ".previous" asm directives for kprobes
sections to column 1 and removed ".text" from them.

Signed-off-by: Chuck Ebbert <76306.1226@compuserve.com>
Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
2006-09-26 10:52:34 +02:00
..
alpha [PATCH] arch/alpha: Use ARRAY_SIZE macro 2006-07-31 13:28:38 -07:00
arm [ARM] 3794/1: S3C24XX: do not defined set_irq_wake when no CONFIG_PM 2006-09-18 13:30:20 +01:00
arm26 [PATCH] tty: Remove include of screen_info.h from tty.h 2006-07-10 13:24:16 -07:00
cris [PATCH] pcf8563: remove MOD_INC_USE_COUNT, MOD_DEC_USE_COUNT 2006-07-10 13:24:22 -07:00
frv [PATCH] sanitize frv archclean 2006-09-22 17:48:56 -07:00
h8300 [PATCH] irq-flags: H8300: Use the new IRQF_ constants 2006-07-02 13:58:47 -07:00
i386 [PATCH] x86: error_code is not safe for kprobes 2006-09-26 10:52:34 +02:00
ia64 [PATCH] cpu to node relationship fixup: map cpu to node 2006-09-25 17:38:36 -07:00
m32r [PATCH] tty: Remove include of screen_info.h from tty.h 2006-07-10 13:24:16 -07:00
m68k [PATCH] irq-flags: M68K: Use the new IRQF_ constants 2006-07-02 13:58:47 -07:00
m68knommu [PATCH] irq-flags: M68KNOMMU: Use the new IRQF_ constants 2006-07-02 13:58:47 -07:00
mips [MIPS] sparsemem: fix crash in show_mem 2006-07-13 21:26:22 +01:00
parisc [PATCH] vDSO hash-style fix 2006-07-31 13:28:43 -07:00
powerpc [PATCH] more fallout from get_property returning pointer to const 2006-09-23 11:34:43 -07:00
ppc [POWERPC] Fix compile error in sbc8560 2006-09-21 22:59:38 +10:00
s390 [PATCH] x86: Some preparationary cleanup for stack trace 2006-09-26 10:52:34 +02:00
sh Fix 'make headers_check' on sh 2006-09-21 08:36:50 +01:00
sh64 sh64: Add a sane pm_power_off implementation. 2006-09-12 14:40:09 +09:00
sparc [PATCH] sun4: fix sbus_setup_iommu() 2006-09-22 17:48:57 -07:00
sparc64 [SPARC64]: Fix section-mismatch errors in solaris emul module. 2006-09-25 16:39:55 -07:00
um [PATCH] i386: Redo semaphore and rwlock assembly helpers 2006-09-26 10:52:29 +02:00
v850 [PATCH] v850: call init_page_count() instead of set_page_count() 2006-07-31 13:28:38 -07:00
x86_64 [PATCH] x86: error_code is not safe for kprobes 2006-09-26 10:52:34 +02:00
xtensa [PATCH] xtensa: ptrace: EXIT_ZOMBIE fix 2006-09-01 11:39:08 -07:00