linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] kdb: Fix btc (backtrace on each cpu) crash

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Date:   Wed, 31 Oct 2018 08:05:54 -0700
From:   Doug Anderson <dianders@...omium.org>
To:     Daniel Thompson <daniel.thompson@...aro.org>
Cc:     Jason Wessel <jason.wessel@...driver.com>, me@...in.cc,
        Joe Perches <joe@...ches.com>, stable@...r.kernel.org,
        kgdb-bugreport@...ts.sourceforge.net,
        LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] kdb: Fix btc (backtrace on each cpu) crash

Hi,

On Wed, Oct 31, 2018 at 4:59 AM Daniel Thompson
<daniel.thompson@...aro.org> wrote:
>
> On Tue, Oct 30, 2018 at 01:53:34PM -0700, Douglas Anderson wrote:
> > Typing 'btc' on kdb doing all sorts of fail.  Sometimes it would
> > crash, sometimes display nothing, and sometimes hang.
> >
> > Bisect tracked this down to the commit ad67b74d2469 ("printk: hash
> > addresses printed with %p"), suggesting an obvious fix.  The pointer
> > used internally in kdb shouldn't be hashed, so switch it to %px.
> >
> > Fixes: ad67b74d2469 ("printk: hash addresses printed with %p")
> > Cc: stable@...r.kernel.org
> > Signed-off-by: Douglas Anderson <dianders@...omium.org>
>
> I think we've already got a fix for this:
> https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jwessel/kgdb.git/commit/?h=kgdb-next&id=a0ca72c2d1ac83d0853a23ffde8f3624648b1ee8

Ah ha.  Nice!  Sorry for not noticing this.  The newest I tested was 4.19.

-Doug