perf/x86/hw_breakpoints: Disallow kernel breakpoints unless kprobe-safe
authorAndy Lutomirski <luto@kernel.org>
Fri, 31 Jul 2015 03:32:40 +0000 (20:32 -0700)
committerIngo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Tue, 4 Aug 2015 08:16:54 +0000 (10:16 +0200)
commite5779e8e12299f77c2421a707855d8d124171d85
treecb527ea37574379a35826c9292dc956cfc7b7433
parentae3f011fc25104a218caf4448b1d47ef1c9b3a42
perf/x86/hw_breakpoints: Disallow kernel breakpoints unless kprobe-safe

Code on the kprobe blacklist doesn't want unexpected int3
exceptions. It probably doesn't want unexpected debug exceptions
either. Be safe: disallow breakpoints in nokprobes code.

On non-CONFIG_KPROBES kernels, there is no kprobe blacklist.  In
that case, disallow kernel breakpoints entirely.

It will be particularly important to keep hw breakpoints out of the
entry and NMI code once we move debug exceptions off the IST stack.

Signed-off-by: Andy Lutomirski <luto@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de>
Cc: Brian Gerst <brgerst@gmail.com>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Masami Hiramatsu <masami.hiramatsu.pt@hitachi.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/e14b152af99640448d895e3c2a8c2d5ee19a1325.1438312874.git.luto@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
arch/x86/kernel/hw_breakpoint.c
include/linux/kprobes.h
kernel/kprobes.c
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