linux-kernel - [PATCH v2 07/10] powerpc: Do not call __kernel_text_address() in show

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Date:   Fri, 27 Jul 2018 11:58:08 -0300
From:   Murilo Opsfelder Araujo <muriloo@...ux.ibm.com>
To:     linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Cc:     "Alastair D'Silva" <alastair@...ilva.org>,
        Andrew Donnellan <andrew.donnellan@....ibm.com>,
        Balbir Singh <bsingharora@...il.com>,
        Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@...nel.crashing.org>,
        Christophe Leroy <christophe.leroy@....fr>,
        Cyril Bur <cyrilbur@...il.com>,
        "Eric W . Biederman" <ebiederm@...ssion.com>,
        Michael Ellerman <mpe@...erman.id.au>,
        Michael Neuling <mikey@...ling.org>,
        Murilo Opsfelder Araujo <muriloo@...ux.ibm.com>,
        Nicholas Piggin <npiggin@...il.com>,
        Paul Mackerras <paulus@...ba.org>,
        Simon Guo <wei.guo.simon@...il.com>,
        Sukadev Bhattiprolu <sukadev@...ux.vnet.ibm.com>,
        "Tobin C . Harding" <me@...in.cc>, linuxppc-dev@...ts.ozlabs.org
Subject: [PATCH v2 07/10] powerpc: Do not call __kernel_text_address() in show_instructions()

Modify show_instructions() not to call __kernel_text_address(), allowing
userspace instruction dump.  probe_kernel_address(), which returns -EFAULT
if something goes wrong, is still being called.

Signed-off-by: Murilo Opsfelder Araujo <muriloo@...ux.ibm.com>
---
 arch/powerpc/kernel/process.c | 3 +--
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/arch/powerpc/kernel/process.c b/arch/powerpc/kernel/process.c
index 25b562c21b7b..04960796fcce 100644
--- a/arch/powerpc/kernel/process.c
+++ b/arch/powerpc/kernel/process.c
@@ -1283,8 +1283,7 @@ static void show_instructions(struct pt_regs *regs)
 			pc = (unsigned long)phys_to_virt(pc);
 #endif
 
-		if (!__kernel_text_address(pc) ||
-		     probe_kernel_address((unsigned int __user *)pc, instr)) {
+		if (probe_kernel_address((unsigned int __user *)pc, instr)) {
 			pr_cont("XXXXXXXX ");
 		} else {
 			if (regs->nip == pc)
-- 
2.17.1