powerpc: Fix null pointer deref in perf hardware breakpoints
authorMichael Neuling <mikey@neuling.org>
Wed, 22 Aug 2012 20:30:43 +0000 (20:30 +0000)
committerBenjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
Fri, 24 Aug 2012 10:26:04 +0000 (20:26 +1000)
commit6d9c00c67b4768105e8ae3d213484095c744eea8
treee29ea6f055e94da270f8191531f60f6979de3fc7
parente3bc8049e524f13e09a58f5bad70b6738494277a
powerpc: Fix null pointer deref in perf hardware breakpoints

Currently if you are doing a global perf recording with hardware
breakpoints (ie perf record -e mem:0xdeadbeef -a), you can oops with:

  Faulting instruction address: 0xc000000000738890
  cpu 0xc: Vector: 300 (Data Access) at [c0000003f76af8d0]
      pc: c000000000738890: .hw_breakpoint_handler+0xa0/0x1e0
      lr: c000000000738830: .hw_breakpoint_handler+0x40/0x1e0
      sp: c0000003f76afb50
     msr: 8000000000001032
     dar: 6f0
   dsisr: 42000000
    current = 0xc0000003f765ac00
    paca    = 0xc00000000f262a00   softe: 0        irq_happened: 0x01
    pid   = 6810, comm = loop-read
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  [c0000003f76afbe0c00000000073cd04 .notifier_call_chain.isra.0+0x84/0xe0
  [c0000003f76afc80c00000000073cdbc .notify_die+0x3c/0x60
  [c0000003f76afd20c0000000000139f0 .do_dabr+0x40/0xf0
  [c0000003f76afe30c000000000005a9c handle_dabr_fault+0x14/0x48
  --- Exception: 300 (Data Access) at 0000000010000480
  SP (ff8679e0) is in userspace

This is because we don't check to see if the break point is associated
with task before we deference the task_struct pointer.

This changes the update to use current.

Signed-off-by: Michael Neuling <mikey@neuling.org>
Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
arch/powerpc/kernel/hw_breakpoint.c