[BUG] arm64/hw_breakpoint: trigger breakpoint exception infinitely

Li Bin huawei.libin at huawei.com
Tue Apr 26 01:23:19 PDT 2016


This bug can be reproduced by compiling the hw_breakpoint sample
module that is in the kernel tree, when loading it with parameter
ksym=nfsdstats, and running nfsstat:

$ insmod data_breakpoint.ko ksym=nfsdstats
$ nfsstat

It will trigger breakpoint exception infinitely:

nfsdstats value is changed
...
Call trace:
...
Dump stack from sample_hbp_handler
nfsdstats value is changed
...
Call trace:
...
Dump stack from sample_hbp_handler
......
......

This is because that the overflow_handler is set to the callback
in the module, and in watchpoint_handler, it will not disable the
breakpoint (and set single step that reenable it), so when exception
return, it will trigger the breakpoint exception again immediately...


Li Bin






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