63be1a81e4
This reverts commit 83e840c770f2c5 ("powerpc64/elfv1: Only dereference
function descriptor for non-text symbols").
Chandan reported that on newer kernels, trying to enable function_graph
tracer on ppc64 (BE) locks up the system with the following trace:
Unable to handle kernel paging request for data at address 0x600000002fa30010
Faulting instruction address: 0xc0000000001f1300
Thread overran stack, or stack corrupted
Oops: Kernel access of bad area, sig: 11 [#1]
BE SMP NR_CPUS=2048 DEBUG_PAGEALLOC NUMA pSeries
Modules linked in:
CPU: 1 PID: 6586 Comm: bash Not tainted 4.14.0-rc3-00162-g6e51f1f-dirty #20
task: c000000625c07200 task.stack: c000000625c07310
NIP: c0000000001f1300 LR: c000000000121cac CTR: c000000000061af8
REGS: c000000625c088c0 TRAP: 0380 Not tainted (4.14.0-rc3-00162-g6e51f1f-dirty)
MSR: 8000000000001032 <SF,ME,IR,DR,RI> CR: 28002848 XER: 00000000
CFAR: c0000000001f1320 SOFTE: 0
...
NIP [c0000000001f1300] .__is_insn_slot_addr+0x30/0x90
LR [c000000000121cac] .kernel_text_address+0x18c/0x1c0
Call Trace:
[c000000625c08b40] [c0000000001bd040] .is_module_text_address+0x20/0x40 (unreliable)
[c000000625c08bc0] [c000000000121cac] .kernel_text_address+0x18c/0x1c0
[c000000625c08c50] [c000000000061960] .prepare_ftrace_return+0x50/0x130
[c000000625c08cf0] [c000000000061b10] .ftrace_graph_caller+0x14/0x34
[c000000625c08d60] [c000000000121b40] .kernel_text_address+0x20/0x1c0
[c000000625c08df0] [c000000000061960] .prepare_ftrace_return+0x50/0x130
...
[c000000625c0ab30] [c000000000061960] .prepare_ftrace_return+0x50/0x130
[c000000625c0abd0] [c000000000061b10] .ftrace_graph_caller+0x14/0x34
[c000000625c0ac40] [c000000000121b40] .kernel_text_address+0x20/0x1c0
[c000000625c0acd0] [c000000000061960] .prepare_ftrace_return+0x50/0x130
[c000000625c0ad70] [c000000000061b10] .ftrace_graph_caller+0x14/0x34
[c000000625c0ade0] [c000000000121b40] .kernel_text_address+0x20/0x1c0
This is because ftrace is using ppc_function_entry() for obtaining the
address of return_to_handler() in prepare_ftrace_return(). The call to
kernel_text_address() itself gets traced and we end up in a recursive
loop.
Fixes: 83e840c770f2 ("powerpc64/elfv1: Only dereference function descriptor for non-text symbols")
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org # v4.13+
Reported-by: Chandan Rajendra <chandan@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Naveen N. Rao <naveen.n.rao@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au>
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