[PATCH 11/14] ARM: alignment: correctly decode instructions in BE8 mode.
Will Deacon
will.deacon at arm.com
Wed Jul 24 11:28:37 EDT 2013
On Wed, Jul 24, 2013 at 11:27:59AM +0100, Ben Dooks wrote:
> If we are in BE8 mode, we must deal with the instruction stream being
> in LE order when data is being loaded in BE order. Ensure the data is
> swapped before processing to avoid thre following:
>
> Change to using <asm/opcodes.h> to provide the necessary conversion
> functions to change the byte ordering.
>
> Alignment trap: not handling instruction 030091e8 at [<80333e8c>]
> Unhandled fault: alignment exception (0x001) at 0xbfa09567
>
> Signed-off-by: Ben Dooks <ben.dooks at codethink.co.uk>
> ---
> arch/arm/mm/alignment.c | 8 ++++++--
> 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/arch/arm/mm/alignment.c b/arch/arm/mm/alignment.c
> index 6f4585b..f38145a 100644
> --- a/arch/arm/mm/alignment.c
> +++ b/arch/arm/mm/alignment.c
> @@ -25,6 +25,7 @@
> #include <asm/cp15.h>
> #include <asm/system_info.h>
> #include <asm/unaligned.h>
> +#include <asm/opcodes.h>
>
> #include "fault.h"
>
> @@ -762,21 +763,24 @@ do_alignment(unsigned long addr, unsigned int fsr, struct pt_regs *regs)
> if (thumb_mode(regs)) {
> u16 *ptr = (u16 *)(instrptr & ~1);
> fault = probe_kernel_address(ptr, tinstr);
> + tinstr = __mem_to_opcode_thumb16(tinstr);
> if (!fault) {
> if (cpu_architecture() >= CPU_ARCH_ARMv7 &&
> IS_T32(tinstr)) {
> /* Thumb-2 32-bit */
> u16 tinst2 = 0;
> fault = probe_kernel_address(ptr + 1, tinst2);
> + tinst2 = __mem_to_opcode_thumb16(tinst2);
> instr = (tinstr << 16) | tinst2;
Took me a while to convince myself, but looks right to me:
Reviewed-by: Will Deacon <will.deacon at arm.com>
Will
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