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Commit d81b4253 authored by Masami Hiramatsu's avatar Masami Hiramatsu Committed by Ingo Molnar
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kprobes: Fix "Failed to find blacklist" probing errors on ia64 and ppc64



On ia64 and ppc64, function pointers do not point to the
entry address of the function, but to the address of a
function descriptor (which contains the entry address and misc
data).

Since the kprobes code passes the function pointer stored
by NOKPROBE_SYMBOL() to kallsyms_lookup_size_offset() for
initalizing its blacklist, it fails and reports many errors,
such as:

  Failed to find blacklist 0001013168300000
  Failed to find blacklist 0001013000f0a000
  [...]

To fix this bug, use arch_deref_entry_point() to get the
function entry address for kallsyms_lookup_size_offset()
instead of the raw function pointer.

Suzuki also pointed out that blacklist entries should also
be updated as well.

Reported-by: default avatarTony Luck <tony.luck@gmail.com>
Fixed-by: default avatarSuzuki K. Poulose <suzuki@in.ibm.com>
Tested-by: default avatarTony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com>
Tested-by: default avatarMichael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au>
Signed-off-by: default avatarMasami Hiramatsu <masami.hiramatsu.pt@hitachi.com>
Acked-by: Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au> (for powerpc)
Acked-by: default avatarBenjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
Cc: Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy@goop.org>
Cc: sparse@chrisli.org
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Cc: akataria@vmware.com
Cc: anil.s.keshavamurthy@intel.com
Cc: Fenghua Yu <fenghua.yu@intel.com>
Cc: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
Cc: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
Cc: Chris Wright <chrisw@sous-sol.org>
Cc: yrl.pp-manager.tt@hitachi.com
Cc: Kevin Hao <haokexin@gmail.com>
Cc: Ananth N Mavinakayanahalli <ananth@in.ibm.com>
Cc: rdunlap@infradead.org
Cc: dl9pf@gmx.de
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Cc: linux-ia64@vger.kernel.org
Cc: linuxppc-dev@lists.ozlabs.org
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20140717114411.13401.2632.stgit@kbuild-fedora.novalocal


Signed-off-by: default avatarIngo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
parent 0cdd192c
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