linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v15 00/10] arm64: Add kernel probes (kprobes) support

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Date:	Tue, 19 Jul 2016 15:38:38 -0400
From:	David Long <dave.long@...aro.org>
To:	Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@....com>
Cc:	Huang Shijie <shijie.huang@....com>,
	James Morse <james.morse@....com>,
	Marc Zyngier <marc.zyngier@....com>,
	Pratyush Anand <panand@...hat.com>,
	Sandeepa Prabhu <sandeepa.s.prabhu@...il.com>,
	Will Deacon <will.deacon@....com>,
	William Cohen <wcohen@...hat.com>,
	linux-arm-kernel@...ts.infradead.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	Steve Capper <steve.capper@...aro.org>,
	Masami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@...nel.org>,
	Li Bin <huawei.libin@...wei.com>,
	Jisheng Zhang <jszhang@...vell.com>,
	Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@....com>,
	Daniel Thompson <daniel.thompson@...aro.org>,
	Vladimir Murzin <Vladimir.Murzin@....com>,
	Petr Mladek <pmladek@...e.com>,
	Ard Biesheuvel <ard.biesheuvel@...aro.org>,
	Jens Wiklander <jens.wiklander@...aro.org>,
	Robin Murphy <robin.murphy@....com>,
	Mark Brown <broonie@...nel.org>,
	Suzuki K Poulose <suzuki.poulose@....com>,
	Dave P Martin <Dave.Martin@....com>,
	Andrey Ryabinin <ryabinin.a.a@...il.com>,
	yalin wang <yalin.wang2010@...il.com>,
	Yang Shi <yang.shi@...aro.org>,
	Zi Shen Lim <zlim.lnx@...il.com>,
	John Blackwood <john.blackwood@...r.com>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
	Alex Bennée <alex.bennee@...aro.org>,
	Adam Buchbinder <adam.buchbinder@...il.com>,
	Christoffer Dall <christoffer.dall@...aro.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v15 00/10] arm64: Add kernel probes (kprobes) support

On 07/19/2016 02:27 PM, Catalin Marinas wrote:
> On Fri, Jul 08, 2016 at 12:35:44PM -0400, David Long wrote:
>> From: "David A. Long" <dave.long@...aro.org>
>>
>> This patchset is heavily based on Sandeepa Prabhu's ARM v8 kprobes patches,
>> first seen in October 2013. This version attempts to address concerns
>> raised by reviewers and also fixes problems discovered during testing.
>>
>> This patchset adds support for kernel probes(kprobes), jump probes(jprobes)
>> and return probes(kretprobes) support for ARM64.
>
> Some more errors with this patchset applied and CONFIG_NET_TCPPROBE
> enabled (it's fine with this option disabled though). I boot on a Juno
> with NFS over UDP and then try to ssh into it (hence establish the first
> TCP connection):
>
> Unable to handle kernel NULL pointer dereference at virtual address 00000003
> pgd = ffff000008ceb000
> [00000003] *pgd=00000009fff6d003, *pud=00000009fff6c003, *pmd=0000000000000000
> Internal error: Oops: 96000004 [#1] PREEMPT SMP
> Modules linked in:
> CPU: 1 PID: 0 Comm: swapper/1 Not tainted 4.7.0-rc4+ #9
> Hardware name: ARM Juno development board (r0) (DT)
> task: ffff800976901900 ti: ffff800976910000 task.ti: ffff800976910000
> PC is at enqueue_task_fair+0x818/0x1188
> LR is at enqueue_task_fair+0x8a4/0x1188
> pc : [<ffff0000080e73d8>] lr : [<ffff0000080e7464>] pstate: 600001c5
> sp : ffff80097fec3a80


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I've reproduced the failure on hikey. I'm looking at it.

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