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<entry>
<title>arm64: remove __exception annotations</title>
<updated>2019-10-28T11:22:38+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>James Morse</name>
<email>james.morse@arm.com</email>
</author>
<published>2019-10-25T16:42:10+00:00</published>
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Since commit 732674980139 ("arm64: unwind: reference pt_regs via embedded
stack frame") arm64 has not used the __exception annotation to dump
the pt_regs during stack tracing. in_exception_text() has no callers.

This annotation is only used to blacklist kprobes, it means the same as
__kprobes.

Section annotations like this require the functions to be grouped
together between the start/end markers, and placed according to
the linker script. For kprobes we also have NOKPROBE_SYMBOL() which
logs the symbol address in a section that kprobes parses and
blacklists at boot.

Using NOKPROBE_SYMBOL() instead lets kprobes publish the list of
blacklisted symbols, and saves us from having an arm64 specific
spelling of __kprobes.

do_debug_exception() already has a NOKPROBE_SYMBOL() annotation.

Signed-off-by: James Morse &lt;james.morse@arm.com&gt;
Acked-by: Mark Rutland &lt;mark.rutland@arm.com&gt;
Acked-by: Masami Hiramatsu &lt;mhiramat@kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Catalin Marinas &lt;catalin.marinas@arm.com&gt;
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Since commit 732674980139 ("arm64: unwind: reference pt_regs via embedded
stack frame") arm64 has not used the __exception annotation to dump
the pt_regs during stack tracing. in_exception_text() has no callers.

This annotation is only used to blacklist kprobes, it means the same as
__kprobes.

Section annotations like this require the functions to be grouped
together between the start/end markers, and placed according to
the linker script. For kprobes we also have NOKPROBE_SYMBOL() which
logs the symbol address in a section that kprobes parses and
blacklists at boot.

Using NOKPROBE_SYMBOL() instead lets kprobes publish the list of
blacklisted symbols, and saves us from having an arm64 specific
spelling of __kprobes.

do_debug_exception() already has a NOKPROBE_SYMBOL() annotation.

Signed-off-by: James Morse &lt;james.morse@arm.com&gt;
Acked-by: Mark Rutland &lt;mark.rutland@arm.com&gt;
Acked-by: Masami Hiramatsu &lt;mhiramat@kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Catalin Marinas &lt;catalin.marinas@arm.com&gt;
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>arm64: kprobes: Recover pstate.D in single-step exception handler</title>
<updated>2019-08-02T10:55:50+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Masami Hiramatsu</name>
<email>mhiramat@kernel.org</email>
</author>
<published>2019-08-01T14:25:49+00:00</published>
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kprobes manipulates the interrupted PSTATE for single step, and
doesn't restore it. Thus, if we put a kprobe where the pstate.D
(debug) masked, the mask will be cleared after the kprobe hits.

Moreover, in the most complicated case, this can lead a kernel
crash with below message when a nested kprobe hits.

[  152.118921] Unexpected kernel single-step exception at EL1

When the 1st kprobe hits, do_debug_exception() will be called.
At this point, debug exception (= pstate.D) must be masked (=1).
But if another kprobes hits before single-step of the first kprobe
(e.g. inside user pre_handler), it unmask the debug exception
(pstate.D = 0) and return.
Then, when the 1st kprobe setting up single-step, it saves current
DAIF, mask DAIF, enable single-step, and restore DAIF.
However, since "D" flag in DAIF is cleared by the 2nd kprobe, the
single-step exception happens soon after restoring DAIF.

This has been introduced by commit 7419333fa15e ("arm64: kprobe:
Always clear pstate.D in breakpoint exception handler")

To solve this issue, this stores all DAIF bits and restore it
after single stepping.

Reported-by: Naresh Kamboju &lt;naresh.kamboju@linaro.org&gt;
Fixes: 7419333fa15e ("arm64: kprobe: Always clear pstate.D in breakpoint exception handler")
Reviewed-by: James Morse &lt;james.morse@arm.com&gt;
Tested-by: James Morse &lt;james.morse@arm.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Masami Hiramatsu &lt;mhiramat@kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Will Deacon &lt;will@kernel.org&gt;
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kprobes manipulates the interrupted PSTATE for single step, and
doesn't restore it. Thus, if we put a kprobe where the pstate.D
(debug) masked, the mask will be cleared after the kprobe hits.

Moreover, in the most complicated case, this can lead a kernel
crash with below message when a nested kprobe hits.

[  152.118921] Unexpected kernel single-step exception at EL1

When the 1st kprobe hits, do_debug_exception() will be called.
At this point, debug exception (= pstate.D) must be masked (=1).
But if another kprobes hits before single-step of the first kprobe
(e.g. inside user pre_handler), it unmask the debug exception
(pstate.D = 0) and return.
Then, when the 1st kprobe setting up single-step, it saves current
DAIF, mask DAIF, enable single-step, and restore DAIF.
However, since "D" flag in DAIF is cleared by the 2nd kprobe, the
single-step exception happens soon after restoring DAIF.

This has been introduced by commit 7419333fa15e ("arm64: kprobe:
Always clear pstate.D in breakpoint exception handler")

To solve this issue, this stores all DAIF bits and restore it
after single stepping.

Reported-by: Naresh Kamboju &lt;naresh.kamboju@linaro.org&gt;
Fixes: 7419333fa15e ("arm64: kprobe: Always clear pstate.D in breakpoint exception handler")
Reviewed-by: James Morse &lt;james.morse@arm.com&gt;
Tested-by: James Morse &lt;james.morse@arm.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Masami Hiramatsu &lt;mhiramat@kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Will Deacon &lt;will@kernel.org&gt;
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>Merge tag 'arm64-upstream' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/arm64/linux</title>
<updated>2019-07-08T16:54:55+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2019-07-08T16:54:55+00:00</published>
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Pull arm64 updates from Catalin Marinas:

 - arm64 support for syscall emulation via PTRACE_SYSEMU{,_SINGLESTEP}

 - Wire up VM_FLUSH_RESET_PERMS for arm64, allowing the core code to
   manage the permissions of executable vmalloc regions more strictly

 - Slight performance improvement by keeping softirqs enabled while
   touching the FPSIMD/SVE state (kernel_neon_begin/end)

 - Expose a couple of ARMv8.5 features to user (HWCAP): CondM (new
   XAFLAG and AXFLAG instructions for floating point comparison flags
   manipulation) and FRINT (rounding floating point numbers to integers)

 - Re-instate ARM64_PSEUDO_NMI support which was previously marked as
   BROKEN due to some bugs (now fixed)

 - Improve parking of stopped CPUs and implement an arm64-specific
   panic_smp_self_stop() to avoid warning on not being able to stop
   secondary CPUs during panic

 - perf: enable the ARM Statistical Profiling Extensions (SPE) on ACPI
   platforms

 - perf: DDR performance monitor support for iMX8QXP

 - cache_line_size() can now be set from DT or ACPI/PPTT if provided to
   cope with a system cache info not exposed via the CPUID registers

 - Avoid warning on hardware cache line size greater than
   ARCH_DMA_MINALIGN if the system is fully coherent

 - arm64 do_page_fault() and hugetlb cleanups

 - Refactor set_pte_at() to avoid redundant READ_ONCE(*ptep)

 - Ignore ACPI 5.1 FADTs reported as 5.0 (infer from the
   'arm_boot_flags' introduced in 5.1)

 - CONFIG_RANDOMIZE_BASE now enabled in defconfig

 - Allow the selection of ARM64_MODULE_PLTS, currently only done via
   RANDOMIZE_BASE (and an erratum workaround), allowing modules to spill
   over into the vmalloc area

 - Make ZONE_DMA32 configurable

* tag 'arm64-upstream' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/arm64/linux: (54 commits)
  perf: arm_spe: Enable ACPI/Platform automatic module loading
  arm_pmu: acpi: spe: Add initial MADT/SPE probing
  ACPI/PPTT: Add function to return ACPI 6.3 Identical tokens
  ACPI/PPTT: Modify node flag detection to find last IDENTICAL
  x86/entry: Simplify _TIF_SYSCALL_EMU handling
  arm64: rename dump_instr as dump_kernel_instr
  arm64/mm: Drop [PTE|PMD]_TYPE_FAULT
  arm64: Implement panic_smp_self_stop()
  arm64: Improve parking of stopped CPUs
  arm64: Expose FRINT capabilities to userspace
  arm64: Expose ARMv8.5 CondM capability to userspace
  arm64: defconfig: enable CONFIG_RANDOMIZE_BASE
  arm64: ARM64_MODULES_PLTS must depend on MODULES
  arm64: bpf: do not allocate executable memory
  arm64/kprobes: set VM_FLUSH_RESET_PERMS on kprobe instruction pages
  arm64/mm: wire up CONFIG_ARCH_HAS_SET_DIRECT_MAP
  arm64: module: create module allocations without exec permissions
  arm64: Allow user selection of ARM64_MODULE_PLTS
  acpi/arm64: ignore 5.1 FADTs that are reported as 5.0
  arm64: Allow selecting Pseudo-NMI again
  ...
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Pull arm64 updates from Catalin Marinas:

 - arm64 support for syscall emulation via PTRACE_SYSEMU{,_SINGLESTEP}

 - Wire up VM_FLUSH_RESET_PERMS for arm64, allowing the core code to
   manage the permissions of executable vmalloc regions more strictly

 - Slight performance improvement by keeping softirqs enabled while
   touching the FPSIMD/SVE state (kernel_neon_begin/end)

 - Expose a couple of ARMv8.5 features to user (HWCAP): CondM (new
   XAFLAG and AXFLAG instructions for floating point comparison flags
   manipulation) and FRINT (rounding floating point numbers to integers)

 - Re-instate ARM64_PSEUDO_NMI support which was previously marked as
   BROKEN due to some bugs (now fixed)

 - Improve parking of stopped CPUs and implement an arm64-specific
   panic_smp_self_stop() to avoid warning on not being able to stop
   secondary CPUs during panic

 - perf: enable the ARM Statistical Profiling Extensions (SPE) on ACPI
   platforms

 - perf: DDR performance monitor support for iMX8QXP

 - cache_line_size() can now be set from DT or ACPI/PPTT if provided to
   cope with a system cache info not exposed via the CPUID registers

 - Avoid warning on hardware cache line size greater than
   ARCH_DMA_MINALIGN if the system is fully coherent

 - arm64 do_page_fault() and hugetlb cleanups

 - Refactor set_pte_at() to avoid redundant READ_ONCE(*ptep)

 - Ignore ACPI 5.1 FADTs reported as 5.0 (infer from the
   'arm_boot_flags' introduced in 5.1)

 - CONFIG_RANDOMIZE_BASE now enabled in defconfig

 - Allow the selection of ARM64_MODULE_PLTS, currently only done via
   RANDOMIZE_BASE (and an erratum workaround), allowing modules to spill
   over into the vmalloc area

 - Make ZONE_DMA32 configurable

* tag 'arm64-upstream' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/arm64/linux: (54 commits)
  perf: arm_spe: Enable ACPI/Platform automatic module loading
  arm_pmu: acpi: spe: Add initial MADT/SPE probing
  ACPI/PPTT: Add function to return ACPI 6.3 Identical tokens
  ACPI/PPTT: Modify node flag detection to find last IDENTICAL
  x86/entry: Simplify _TIF_SYSCALL_EMU handling
  arm64: rename dump_instr as dump_kernel_instr
  arm64/mm: Drop [PTE|PMD]_TYPE_FAULT
  arm64: Implement panic_smp_self_stop()
  arm64: Improve parking of stopped CPUs
  arm64: Expose FRINT capabilities to userspace
  arm64: Expose ARMv8.5 CondM capability to userspace
  arm64: defconfig: enable CONFIG_RANDOMIZE_BASE
  arm64: ARM64_MODULES_PLTS must depend on MODULES
  arm64: bpf: do not allocate executable memory
  arm64/kprobes: set VM_FLUSH_RESET_PERMS on kprobe instruction pages
  arm64/mm: wire up CONFIG_ARCH_HAS_SET_DIRECT_MAP
  arm64: module: create module allocations without exec permissions
  arm64: Allow user selection of ARM64_MODULE_PLTS
  acpi/arm64: ignore 5.1 FADTs that are reported as 5.0
  arm64: Allow selecting Pseudo-NMI again
  ...
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>arm64/kprobes: set VM_FLUSH_RESET_PERMS on kprobe instruction pages</title>
<updated>2019-06-24T17:10:39+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Ard Biesheuvel</name>
<email>ard.biesheuvel@arm.com</email>
</author>
<published>2019-05-23T10:22:55+00:00</published>
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In order to avoid transient inconsistencies where freed code pages
are remapped writable while stale TLB entries still exist on other
cores, mark the kprobes text pages with the VM_FLUSH_RESET_PERMS
attribute. This instructs the core vmalloc code not to defer the
TLB flush when this region is unmapped and returned to the page
allocator.

Acked-by: Will Deacon &lt;will@kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Ard Biesheuvel &lt;ard.biesheuvel@arm.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Catalin Marinas &lt;catalin.marinas@arm.com&gt;
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In order to avoid transient inconsistencies where freed code pages
are remapped writable while stale TLB entries still exist on other
cores, mark the kprobes text pages with the VM_FLUSH_RESET_PERMS
attribute. This instructs the core vmalloc code not to defer the
TLB flush when this region is unmapped and returned to the page
allocator.

Acked-by: Will Deacon &lt;will@kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Ard Biesheuvel &lt;ard.biesheuvel@arm.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Catalin Marinas &lt;catalin.marinas@arm.com&gt;
</pre>
</div>
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>treewide: Replace GPLv2 boilerplate/reference with SPDX - rule 500</title>
<updated>2019-06-19T15:09:55+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Thomas Gleixner</name>
<email>tglx@linutronix.de</email>
</author>
<published>2019-06-04T08:11:33+00:00</published>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://git.tavy.me/linux.git/commit/?id=d2912cb15bdda8ba4a5dd73396ad62641af2f520'/>
<id>d2912cb15bdda8ba4a5dd73396ad62641af2f520</id>
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Based on 2 normalized pattern(s):

  this program is free software you can redistribute it and or modify
  it under the terms of the gnu general public license version 2 as
  published by the free software foundation

  this program is free software you can redistribute it and or modify
  it under the terms of the gnu general public license version 2 as
  published by the free software foundation #

extracted by the scancode license scanner the SPDX license identifier

  GPL-2.0-only

has been chosen to replace the boilerplate/reference in 4122 file(s).

Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner &lt;tglx@linutronix.de&gt;
Reviewed-by: Enrico Weigelt &lt;info@metux.net&gt;
Reviewed-by: Kate Stewart &lt;kstewart@linuxfoundation.org&gt;
Reviewed-by: Allison Randal &lt;allison@lohutok.net&gt;
Cc: linux-spdx@vger.kernel.org
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20190604081206.933168790@linutronix.de
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;
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Based on 2 normalized pattern(s):

  this program is free software you can redistribute it and or modify
  it under the terms of the gnu general public license version 2 as
  published by the free software foundation

  this program is free software you can redistribute it and or modify
  it under the terms of the gnu general public license version 2 as
  published by the free software foundation #

extracted by the scancode license scanner the SPDX license identifier

  GPL-2.0-only

has been chosen to replace the boilerplate/reference in 4122 file(s).

Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner &lt;tglx@linutronix.de&gt;
Reviewed-by: Enrico Weigelt &lt;info@metux.net&gt;
Reviewed-by: Kate Stewart &lt;kstewart@linuxfoundation.org&gt;
Reviewed-by: Allison Randal &lt;allison@lohutok.net&gt;
Cc: linux-spdx@vger.kernel.org
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20190604081206.933168790@linutronix.de
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;
</pre>
</div>
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>treewide: Replace GPLv2 boilerplate/reference with SPDX - rule 174</title>
<updated>2019-05-30T18:26:41+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Thomas Gleixner</name>
<email>tglx@linutronix.de</email>
</author>
<published>2019-05-27T06:55:21+00:00</published>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://git.tavy.me/linux.git/commit/?id=1802d0beecafe581ad584634ba92f8a471d8a63a'/>
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<content type='text'>
Based on 1 normalized pattern(s):

  this program is free software you can redistribute it and or modify
  it under the terms of the gnu general public license version 2 as
  published by the free software foundation this program is
  distributed in the hope that it will be useful but without any
  warranty without even the implied warranty of merchantability or
  fitness for a particular purpose see the gnu general public license
  for more details

extracted by the scancode license scanner the SPDX license identifier

  GPL-2.0-only

has been chosen to replace the boilerplate/reference in 655 file(s).

Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner &lt;tglx@linutronix.de&gt;
Reviewed-by: Allison Randal &lt;allison@lohutok.net&gt;
Reviewed-by: Kate Stewart &lt;kstewart@linuxfoundation.org&gt;
Reviewed-by: Richard Fontana &lt;rfontana@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: linux-spdx@vger.kernel.org
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20190527070034.575739538@linutronix.de
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;
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<pre>
Based on 1 normalized pattern(s):

  this program is free software you can redistribute it and or modify
  it under the terms of the gnu general public license version 2 as
  published by the free software foundation this program is
  distributed in the hope that it will be useful but without any
  warranty without even the implied warranty of merchantability or
  fitness for a particular purpose see the gnu general public license
  for more details

extracted by the scancode license scanner the SPDX license identifier

  GPL-2.0-only

has been chosen to replace the boilerplate/reference in 655 file(s).

Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner &lt;tglx@linutronix.de&gt;
Reviewed-by: Allison Randal &lt;allison@lohutok.net&gt;
Reviewed-by: Kate Stewart &lt;kstewart@linuxfoundation.org&gt;
Reviewed-by: Richard Fontana &lt;rfontana@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: linux-spdx@vger.kernel.org
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20190527070034.575739538@linutronix.de
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;
</pre>
</div>
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>arm64: probes: Move magic BRK values into brk-imm.h</title>
<updated>2019-04-09T10:21:13+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Will Deacon</name>
<email>will.deacon@arm.com</email>
</author>
<published>2019-02-26T15:06:42+00:00</published>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://git.tavy.me/linux.git/commit/?id=453b7740ebfda2d84be7fb583c54f0c91c592869'/>
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kprobes and uprobes reserve some BRK immediates for installing their
probes. Define these along with the other reservations in brk-imm.h
and rename the ESR definitions to be consistent with the others that we
already have.

Reviewed-by: Mark Rutland &lt;mark.rutland@arm.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Will Deacon &lt;will.deacon@arm.com&gt;
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kprobes and uprobes reserve some BRK immediates for installing their
probes. Define these along with the other reservations in brk-imm.h
and rename the ESR definitions to be consistent with the others that we
already have.

Reviewed-by: Mark Rutland &lt;mark.rutland@arm.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Will Deacon &lt;will.deacon@arm.com&gt;
</pre>
</div>
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>arm64: debug: Remove redundant user_mode(regs) checks from debug handlers</title>
<updated>2019-04-09T10:21:13+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Will Deacon</name>
<email>will.deacon@arm.com</email>
</author>
<published>2019-02-26T15:37:09+00:00</published>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://git.tavy.me/linux.git/commit/?id=fb610f2a2006322bebeb30408fefce6a01df09ea'/>
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Now that the debug hook dispatching code takes the triggering exception
level into account, there's no need for the hooks themselves to poke
around with user_mode(regs).

Reviewed-by: Mark Rutland &lt;mark.rutland@arm.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Will Deacon &lt;will.deacon@arm.com&gt;
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Now that the debug hook dispatching code takes the triggering exception
level into account, there's no need for the hooks themselves to poke
around with user_mode(regs).

Reviewed-by: Mark Rutland &lt;mark.rutland@arm.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Will Deacon &lt;will.deacon@arm.com&gt;
</pre>
</div>
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>arm64: kprobes: Avoid calling kprobes debug handlers explicitly</title>
<updated>2019-04-09T10:21:13+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Will Deacon</name>
<email>will.deacon@arm.com</email>
</author>
<published>2019-02-26T14:35:00+00:00</published>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://git.tavy.me/linux.git/commit/?id=a22d570aee77ae626e4d3532478ae8058a24bdb3'/>
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<content type='text'>
Kprobes bypasses our debug hook registration code so that it doesn't
get tangled up with recursive debug exceptions from things like lockdep:

  http://lists.infradead.org/pipermail/linux-arm-kernel/2015-February/324385.html

However, since then, (a) the hook list has become RCU protected and (b)
the kprobes hooks were found not to filter out exceptions from userspace
correctly. On top of that, the step handler is invoked directly from
single_step_handler(), which *does* use the debug hook list, so it's
clearly not the end of the world.

For now, have kprobes use the debug hook registration API like everybody
else. We can revisit this in the future if this is found to limit
coverage significantly.

Reviewed-by: Mark Rutland &lt;mark.rutland@arm.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Will Deacon &lt;will.deacon@arm.com&gt;
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Kprobes bypasses our debug hook registration code so that it doesn't
get tangled up with recursive debug exceptions from things like lockdep:

  http://lists.infradead.org/pipermail/linux-arm-kernel/2015-February/324385.html

However, since then, (a) the hook list has become RCU protected and (b)
the kprobes hooks were found not to filter out exceptions from userspace
correctly. On top of that, the step handler is invoked directly from
single_step_handler(), which *does* use the debug hook list, so it's
clearly not the end of the world.

For now, have kprobes use the debug hook registration API like everybody
else. We can revisit this in the future if this is found to limit
coverage significantly.

Reviewed-by: Mark Rutland &lt;mark.rutland@arm.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Will Deacon &lt;will.deacon@arm.com&gt;
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<title>arm64: debug: Separate debug hooks based on target exception level</title>
<updated>2019-04-09T10:21:13+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Will Deacon</name>
<email>will.deacon@arm.com</email>
</author>
<published>2019-02-26T12:52:47+00:00</published>
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Mixing kernel and user debug hooks together is highly error-prone as it
relies on all of the hooks to figure out whether the exception came from
kernel or user, and then to act accordingly.

Make our debug hook code a little more robust by maintaining separate
hook lists for user and kernel, with separate registration functions
to force callers to be explicit about the exception levels that they
care about.

Reviewed-by: Mark Rutland &lt;mark.rutland@arm.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Will Deacon &lt;will.deacon@arm.com&gt;
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Mixing kernel and user debug hooks together is highly error-prone as it
relies on all of the hooks to figure out whether the exception came from
kernel or user, and then to act accordingly.

Make our debug hook code a little more robust by maintaining separate
hook lists for user and kernel, with separate registration functions
to force callers to be explicit about the exception levels that they
care about.

Reviewed-by: Mark Rutland &lt;mark.rutland@arm.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Will Deacon &lt;will.deacon@arm.com&gt;
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