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When checking if the probed instruction is the suffix of a prefixed
instruction, we access the instruction at the previous word. If the
probed instruction is the very first word of a module, we can end up
trying to access an invalid page.
Fix this by skipping the check for all instructions at the beginning of
a page. Prefixed instructions cannot cross a 64-byte boundary and as
such, we don't expect to encounter a suffix as the very first word in a
page for kernel text. Even if there are prefixed instructions crossing
a page boundary (from a module, for instance), the instruction will be
illegal, so preventing probing on the suffix of such prefix instructions
isn't worthwhile.
Fixes: b4657f7650ba ("powerpc/kprobes: Don't allow breakpoints on suffixes")
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org # v5.8+
Reported-by: Christophe Leroy <christophe.leroy@csgroup.eu>
Signed-off-by: Naveen N. Rao <naveen.n.rao@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/0df9a032a05576a2fa8e97d1b769af2ff0eafbd6.1621416666.git.naveen.n.rao@linux.vnet.ibm.com
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