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authorJon Medhurst (Tixy) <tixy@yxit.co.uk>2011-11-29 08:16:02 +0100
committerRussell King <rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk>2011-11-30 23:54:54 +0000
commitb5bed7fe801d1460424b7aeb6b06464e23d2a1e6 (patch)
treed7908f55743de30fa49d5cf01ad2c5aeafebf8eb /kernel/module.c
parent14383c295ab48178c449336f5d74e9e615e36723 (diff)
ARM: 7181/1: Restrict kprobes probing SWP instructions to ARMv5 and below
The SWP instruction is deprecated on ARMv6 and with ARMv7 it will be UNDEFINED when CONFIG_SWP_EMULATE is selected. In this case, probing a SWP instruction will cause an oops when the kprobes emulation code executes an undefined instruction. As the SWP instruction should be rare or non-existent in kernels for ARMv6 and later, we can simply avoid these problems by not allowing probing of these. Reported-by: Leif Lindholm <leif.lindholm@arm.com> Tested-by: Leif Lindholm <leif.lindholm@arm.com> Acked-by: Nicolas Pitre <nicolas.pitre@linaro.org> Signed-off-by: Jon Medhurst <tixy@yxit.co.uk> Signed-off-by: Russell King <rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk>
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