01 Oct, 2020
3 commits
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Currently using forward search doesn't handle multi-line strings correctly.
The search routine replaces line breaks with \0 during the search and, for
regular searches ("help | grep Common\n"), there is code after the line
has been discarded or printed to replace the break character.However during a pager search ("help\n" followed by "/Common\n") when the
string is matched we will immediately return to normal output and the code
that should restore the \n becomes unreachable. Fix this by restoring the
replaced character when we disable the search mode and update the comment
accordingly.Fixes: fb6daa7520f9d ("kdb: Provide forward search at more prompt")
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20200909141708.338273-1-daniel.thompson@linaro.org
Reviewed-by: Douglas Anderson
Signed-off-by: Daniel Thompson -
During debug trap execution we expect dbg_deactivate_sw_breakpoints()
to be paired with an dbg_activate_sw_breakpoint(). Currently although
the calls are paired correctly they are needlessly smeared across three
different functions. Worse this also results in code to drive polled I/O
being called with breakpoints activated which, in turn, needlessly
increases the set of functions that will recursively trap if breakpointed.Fix this by moving the activation of breakpoints into the debug core.
Reviewed-by: Douglas Anderson
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20200927211531.1380577-4-daniel.thompson@linaro.org
Signed-off-by: Daniel Thompson -
Currently kgdb honours the kprobe blocklist but doesn't place its own
trap handling code on the list. Add labels to discourage attempting to
use kgdb to debug itself.Not every functions that executes from the trap handler needs to be
marked up: relatively early in the trap handler execution (just after
we bring the other CPUs to a halt) all breakpoints are replaced with
the original opcodes. This patch marks up code in the debug_core that
executes between trap entry and the breakpoints being deactivated
and, also, code that executes between breakpoint activation and trap
exit.To be clear these changes are not sufficient to make recursive trapping
impossible since they do not include library calls made during kgdb's
entry/exit logic. However going much further whilst we are sharing the
kprobe blocklist risks reducing the capabilities of kprobe and this
would be a bad trade off (especially so given kgdb's users are currently
conditioned to avoid recursive traps).Reviewed-by: Douglas Anderson
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20200927211531.1380577-3-daniel.thompson@linaro.org
Signed-off-by: Daniel Thompson
28 Sep, 2020
1 commit
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Currently kgdb has absolutely no safety rails in place to discourage or
prevent a user from placing a breakpoint in dangerous places such as
the debugger's own trap entry/exit and other places where it is not safe
to take synchronous traps.Introduce a new config symbol KGDB_HONOUR_BLOCKLIST and modify the
default implementation of kgdb_validate_break_address() so that we use
the kprobe blocklist to prohibit instrumentation of critical functions
if the config symbol is set. The config symbol dependencies are set to
ensure that the blocklist will be enabled by default if we enable KGDB
and are compiling for an architecture where we HAVE_KPROBES.Suggested-by: Peter Zijlstra
Reviewed-by: Douglas Anderson
Reviewed-by: Masami Hiramatsu
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20200927211531.1380577-2-daniel.thompson@linaro.org
Signed-off-by: Daniel Thompson
11 Sep, 2020
1 commit
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Fix typo: "notifiter" --> "notifier"
"overriden" --> "overridden"Signed-off-by: Youling Tang
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/1596793480-22559-1-git-send-email-tangyouling@loongson.cn
Signed-off-by: Daniel Thompson
08 Sep, 2020
3 commits
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This kills using the do_each_thread/while_each_thread combo to
iterate all threads and uses for_each_process_thread() instead,
maintaining semantics. while_each_thread() is ultimately racy
and deprecated; although in this particular case there is no
concurrency so it doesn't matter. Still lets trivially get rid
of two more users.Acked-by: Oleg Nesterov
Signed-off-by: Davidlohr Bueso
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20200907203206.21293-1-dave@stgolabs.net
Signed-off-by: Daniel Thompson -
On my system the kernel processes the "kgdb_earlycon" parameter before
the "kgdbcon" parameter. When we setup "kgdb_earlycon" we'll end up
in kgdb_register_callbacks() and "kgdb_use_con" won't have been set
yet so we'll never get around to starting "kgdbcon". Let's remedy
this by detecting that the IO module was already registered when
setting "kgdb_use_con" and registering the console then.As part of this, to avoid pre-declaring things, move the handling of
the "kgdbcon" further down in the file.Signed-off-by: Douglas Anderson
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20200630151422.1.I4aa062751ff5e281f5116655c976dff545c09a46@changeid
Signed-off-by: Daniel Thompson -
`kdb_msg_write` operates on a global `struct kgdb_io *` called
`dbg_io_ops`.It's initialized in `debug_core.c` and checked throughout the debug
flow.There's a null check in `kdb_msg_write` which triggers static analyzers
and gives the (almost entirely wrong) impression that it can be null.Coverity scanner caught this as CID 1465042.
I have removed the unnecessary null check and eliminated false-positive
forward null dereference warning.Signed-off-by: Cengiz Can
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20200630082922.28672-1-cengiz@kernel.wtf
Reviewed-by: Sumit Garg
Reviewed-by: Douglas Anderson
Tested-by: Douglas Anderson
Signed-off-by: Daniel Thompson
24 Aug, 2020
1 commit
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Replace the existing /* fall through */ comments and its variants with
the new pseudo-keyword macro fallthrough[1]. Also, remove unnecessary
fall-through markings when it is the case.[1] https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/v5.7/process/deprecated.html?highlight=fallthrough#implicit-switch-case-fall-through
Signed-off-by: Gustavo A. R. Silva
05 Aug, 2020
1 commit
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Pull uninitialized_var() macro removal from Kees Cook:
"This is long overdue, and has hidden too many bugs over the years. The
series has several "by hand" fixes, and then a trivial treewide
replacement.- Clean up non-trivial uses of uninitialized_var()
- Update documentation and checkpatch for uninitialized_var() removal
- Treewide removal of uninitialized_var()"
* tag 'uninit-macro-v5.9-rc1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/kees/linux:
compiler: Remove uninitialized_var() macro
treewide: Remove uninitialized_var() usage
checkpatch: Remove awareness of uninitialized_var() macro
mm/debug_vm_pgtable: Remove uninitialized_var() usage
f2fs: Eliminate usage of uninitialized_var() macro
media: sur40: Remove uninitialized_var() usage
KVM: PPC: Book3S PR: Remove uninitialized_var() usage
clk: spear: Remove uninitialized_var() usage
clk: st: Remove uninitialized_var() usage
spi: davinci: Remove uninitialized_var() usage
ide: Remove uninitialized_var() usage
rtlwifi: rtl8192cu: Remove uninitialized_var() usage
b43: Remove uninitialized_var() usage
drbd: Remove uninitialized_var() usage
x86/mm/numa: Remove uninitialized_var() usage
docs: deprecated.rst: Add uninitialized_var()
31 Jul, 2020
1 commit
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This converts all the existing DECLARE_TASKLET() (and ...DISABLED)
macros with DECLARE_TASKLET_OLD() in preparation for refactoring the
tasklet callback type. All existing DECLARE_TASKLET() users had a "0"
data argument, it has been removed here as well.Reviewed-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman
Acked-by: Thomas Gleixner
Signed-off-by: Kees Cook
17 Jul, 2020
1 commit
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Using uninitialized_var() is dangerous as it papers over real bugs[1]
(or can in the future), and suppresses unrelated compiler warnings
(e.g. "unused variable"). If the compiler thinks it is uninitialized,
either simply initialize the variable or make compiler changes.In preparation for removing[2] the[3] macro[4], remove all remaining
needless uses with the following script:git grep '\buninitialized_var\b' | cut -d: -f1 | sort -u | \
xargs perl -pi -e \
's/\buninitialized_var\(([^\)]+)\)/\1/g;
s:\s*/\* (GCC be quiet|to make compiler happy) \*/$::g;'drivers/video/fbdev/riva/riva_hw.c was manually tweaked to avoid
pathological white-space.No outstanding warnings were found building allmodconfig with GCC 9.3.0
for x86_64, i386, arm64, arm, powerpc, powerpc64le, s390x, mips, sparc64,
alpha, and m68k.[1] https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/20200603174714.192027-1-glider@google.com/
[2] https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/CA+55aFw+Vbj0i=1TGqCR5vQkCzWJ0QxK6CernOU6eedsudAixw@mail.gmail.com/
[3] https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/CA+55aFwgbgqhbp1fkxvRKEpzyR5J8n1vKT1VZdz9knmPuXhOeg@mail.gmail.com/
[4] https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/CA+55aFz2500WfbKXAx8s67wrm9=yVJu65TpLgN_ybYNv0VEOKA@mail.gmail.com/Reviewed-by: Leon Romanovsky # drivers/infiniband and mlx4/mlx5
Acked-by: Jason Gunthorpe # IB
Acked-by: Kalle Valo # wireless drivers
Reviewed-by: Chao Yu # erofs
Signed-off-by: Kees Cook
10 Jul, 2020
1 commit
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The XML packet could be supported by required architecture if the
architecture defines CONFIG_HAVE_ARCH_KGDB_QXFER_PKT and implement its own
kgdb_arch_handle_qxfer_pkt(). Except for the kgdb_arch_handle_qxfer_pkt(),
the architecture also needs to record the feature supported by gdb stub
into the kgdb_arch_gdb_stub_feature, and these features will be reported
to host gdb when gdb stub receives the qSupported packet.Signed-off-by: Vincent Chen
Acked-by: Daniel Thompson
Signed-off-by: Palmer Dabbelt
26 Jun, 2020
2 commits
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At times when I'm using kgdb I see a splat on my console about
suspicious RCU usage. I managed to come up with a case that could
reproduce this that looked like this:WARNING: suspicious RCU usage
5.7.0-rc4+ #609 Not tainted
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kernel/pid.c:395 find_task_by_pid_ns() needs rcu_read_lock() protection!other info that might help us debug this:
rcu_scheduler_active = 2, debug_locks = 1
3 locks held by swapper/0/1:
#0: ffffff81b6b8e988 (&dev->mutex){....}-{3:3}, at: __device_attach+0x40/0x13c
#1: ffffffd01109e9e8 (dbg_master_lock){....}-{2:2}, at: kgdb_cpu_enter+0x20c/0x7ac
#2: ffffffd01109ea90 (dbg_slave_lock){....}-{2:2}, at: kgdb_cpu_enter+0x3ec/0x7acstack backtrace:
CPU: 7 PID: 1 Comm: swapper/0 Not tainted 5.7.0-rc4+ #609
Hardware name: Google Cheza (rev3+) (DT)
Call trace:
dump_backtrace+0x0/0x1b8
show_stack+0x1c/0x24
dump_stack+0xd4/0x134
lockdep_rcu_suspicious+0xf0/0x100
find_task_by_pid_ns+0x5c/0x80
getthread+0x8c/0xb0
gdb_serial_stub+0x9d4/0xd04
kgdb_cpu_enter+0x284/0x7ac
kgdb_handle_exception+0x174/0x20c
kgdb_brk_fn+0x24/0x30
call_break_hook+0x6c/0x7c
brk_handler+0x20/0x5c
do_debug_exception+0x1c8/0x22c
el1_sync_handler+0x3c/0xe4
el1_sync+0x7c/0x100
rpmh_rsc_probe+0x38/0x420
platform_drv_probe+0x94/0xb4
really_probe+0x134/0x300
driver_probe_device+0x68/0x100
__device_attach_driver+0x90/0xa8
bus_for_each_drv+0x84/0xcc
__device_attach+0xb4/0x13c
device_initial_probe+0x18/0x20
bus_probe_device+0x38/0x98
device_add+0x38c/0x420If I understand properly we should just be able to blanket kgdb under
one big RCU read lock and the problem should go away. We'll add it to
the beast-of-a-function known as kgdb_cpu_enter().With this I no longer get any splats and things seem to work fine.
Signed-off-by: Douglas Anderson
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20200602154729.v2.1.I70e0d4fd46d5ed2aaf0c98a355e8e1b7a5bb7e4e@changeid
Signed-off-by: Daniel Thompson -
In kgdb context, calling console handlers aren't safe due to locks used
in those handlers which could in turn lead to a deadlock. Although, using
oops_in_progress increases the chance to bypass locks in most console
handlers but it might not be sufficient enough in case a console uses
more locks (VT/TTY is good example).Currently when a driver provides both polling I/O and a console then kdb
will output using the console. We can increase robustness by using the
currently active polling I/O driver (which should be lockless) instead
of the corresponding console. For several common cases (e.g. an
embedded system with a single serial port that is used both for console
output and debugger I/O) this will result in no console handler being
used.In order to achieve this we need to reverse the order of preference to
use dbg_io_ops (uses polling I/O mode) over console APIs. So we just
store "struct console" that represents debugger I/O in dbg_io_ops and
while emitting kdb messages, skip console that matches dbg_io_ops
console in order to avoid duplicate messages. After this change,
"is_console" param becomes redundant and hence removed.Suggested-by: Daniel Thompson
Signed-off-by: Sumit Garg
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/1591264879-25920-5-git-send-email-sumit.garg@linaro.org
Reviewed-by: Douglas Anderson
Reviewed-by: Petr Mladek
Acked-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman
Signed-off-by: Daniel Thompson
25 Jun, 2020
3 commits
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While rounding up CPUs via NMIs, its possible that a rounded up CPU
maybe holding a console port lock leading to kgdb master CPU stuck in
a deadlock during invocation of console write operations. A similar
deadlock could also be possible while using synchronous breakpoints.So in order to avoid such a deadlock, set oops_in_progress to encourage
the console drivers to disregard their internal spin locks: in the
current calling context the risk of deadlock is a bigger problem than
risks due to re-entering the console driver. We operate directly on
oops_in_progress rather than using bust_spinlocks() because the calls
bust_spinlocks() makes on exit are not appropriate for this calling
context.Suggested-by: Sergey Senozhatsky
Signed-off-by: Sumit Garg
Reviewed-by: Douglas Anderson
Reviewed-by: Petr Mladek
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/1591264879-25920-4-git-send-email-sumit.garg@linaro.org
Signed-off-by: Daniel Thompson -
Check if a console is enabled prior to invoking corresponding write
handler.Suggested-by: Sergey Senozhatsky
Signed-off-by: Sumit Garg
Reviewed-by: Daniel Thompson
Reviewed-by: Douglas Anderson
Reviewed-by: Petr Mladek
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/1591264879-25920-3-git-send-email-sumit.garg@linaro.org
Signed-off-by: Daniel Thompson -
Re-factor kdb_printf() message write code in order to avoid duplication
of code and thereby increase readability.Signed-off-by: Sumit Garg
Reviewed-by: Douglas Anderson
Reviewed-by: Petr Mladek
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/1591264879-25920-2-git-send-email-sumit.garg@linaro.org
Signed-off-by: Daniel Thompson
18 Jun, 2020
1 commit
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Better describe what these functions do.
Suggested-by: Linus Torvalds
Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds
10 Jun, 2020
2 commits
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Now the last users of show_stack() got converted to use an explicit log
level, show_stack_loglvl() can drop it's redundant suffix and become once
again well known show_stack().Signed-off-by: Dmitry Safonov
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20200418201944.482088-51-dima@arista.com
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds -
Print the stack trace with KERN_EMERG - it should be always visible.
Playing with console_loglevel is a bad idea as there may be more messages
printed than wanted. Also the stack trace might be not printed at all if
printk() was deferred and console_loglevel was raised back before the
trace got flushed.Unfortunately, after rebasing on commit 2277b492582d ("kdb: Fix stack
crawling on 'running' CPUs that aren't the master"), kdb_show_stack() uses
now kdb_dump_stack_on_cpu(), which for now won't be converted as it uses
dump_stack() instead of show_stack().Convert for now the branch that uses show_stack() and remove
console_loglevel exercise from that case.Signed-off-by: Dmitry Safonov
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton
Reviewed-by: Douglas Anderson
Acked-by: Daniel Thompson
Cc: Jason Wessel
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20200418201944.482088-48-dima@arista.com
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds
08 Jun, 2020
1 commit
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Pull tty/serial driver updates from Greg KH:
"Here is the tty and serial driver updates for 5.8-rc1Nothing huge at all, just a lot of little serial driver fixes, updates
for new devices and features, and other small things. Full details are
in the shortlog.All of these have been in linux-next with no issues for a while"
* tag 'tty-5.8-rc1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/gregkh/tty: (67 commits)
tty: serial: qcom_geni_serial: Add 51.2MHz frequency support
tty: serial: imx: clear Ageing Timer Interrupt in handler
serial: 8250_fintek: Add F81966 Support
sc16is7xx: Add flag to activate IrDA mode
dt-bindings: sc16is7xx: Add flag to activate IrDA mode
serial: 8250: Support rs485 bus termination GPIO
serial: 8520_port: Fix function param documentation
dt-bindings: serial: Add binding for rs485 bus termination GPIO
vt: keyboard: avoid signed integer overflow in k_ascii
serial: 8250: Enable 16550A variants by default on non-x86
tty: hvc_console, fix crashes on parallel open/close
serial: imx: Initialize lock for non-registered console
sc16is7xx: Read the LSR register for basic device presence check
sc16is7xx: Allow sharing the IRQ line
sc16is7xx: Use threaded IRQ
sc16is7xx: Always use falling edge IRQ
tty: n_gsm: Fix bogus i++ in gsm_data_kick
tty: n_gsm: Remove unnecessary test in gsm_print_packet()
serial: stm32: add no_console_suspend support
tty: serial: fsl_lpuart: Use __maybe_unused instead of #if CONFIG_PM_SLEEP
...
05 Jun, 2020
1 commit
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Pull RISC-V updates from Palmer Dabbelt:
- The remainder of the code necessary to support the Kendryte K210:
* Support for building device trees into the kernel, as the K210
doesn't have a bootloader that provides one* A K210 device tree and the associated defconfig update
* Support for skipping PMP initialization on systems that trap on
PMP accesses rather than treating them as WARL- Support for KGDB
- Improvements to text patching
- Some cleanups to the SiFive L2 cache driver
* tag 'riscv-for-linus-5.8-mw0' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/riscv/linux:
soc: sifive: l2 cache: Mark l2_get_priv_group as static
soc: sifive: l2 cache: Eliminate an unsigned zero compare warning
riscv: Add support to determine no. of L2 cache way enabled
riscv: cacheinfo: Implement cache_get_priv_group with a generic ops structure
riscv: Use text_mutex instead of patch_lock
riscv: Use NOKPROBE_SYMBOL() instead of __krpobes annotation
riscv: Remove the 'riscv_' prefix of function name
riscv: Add SW single-step support for KDB
riscv: Use the XML target descriptions to report 3 system registers
riscv: Add KGDB support
kgdb: Add kgdb_has_hit_break function
RISC-V: Skip setting up PMPs on traps
riscv: K210: Update defconfig
riscv: K210: Add a built-in device tree
riscv: Allow device trees to be built into the kernel
02 Jun, 2020
3 commits
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Currently, 'KDBFLAGS' is an internal variable of kdb, it is combined
by 'KDBDEBUG' and state flags. It will be shown only when 'KDBDEBUG'
is set, and the user can define an environment variable named 'KDBFLAGS'
too. These are puzzling indeed.After communication with Daniel, it seems that 'KDBFLAGS' is a misfeature.
So let's replace 'KDBFLAGS' with 'KDBDEBUG' to just show the value we
wrote into. After this modification, we can use `md4c1 kdb_flags` instead,
to observe the state flags.Suggested-by: Daniel Thompson
Signed-off-by: Wei Li
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20200521072125.21103-1-liwei391@huawei.com
[daniel.thompson@linaro.org: Make kdb_flags unsigned to avoid arithmetic
right shift]
Signed-off-by: Daniel Thompson -
From code inspection the math in handle_ctrl_cmd() looks super sketchy
because it subjects -1 from cmdptr and then does a "%
KDB_CMD_HISTORY_COUNT". It turns out that this code works because
"cmdptr" is unsigned and KDB_CMD_HISTORY_COUNT is a nice power of 2.
Let's make this a little less sketchy.This patch should be a no-op.
Signed-off-by: Douglas Anderson
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20200507161125.1.I2cce9ac66e141230c3644b8174b6c15d4e769232@changeid
Reviewed-by: Sumit Garg
Signed-off-by: Daniel Thompson -
When I combined kgdboc_earlycon with an inflight patch titled ("soc:
qcom-geni-se: Add interconnect support to fix earlycon crash") [1]
things went boom. Specifically I got a crash during the transition
between kgdboc_earlycon and the main kgdboc that looked like this:Call trace:
__schedule_bug+0x68/0x6c
__schedule+0x75c/0x924
schedule+0x8c/0xbc
schedule_timeout+0x9c/0xfc
do_wait_for_common+0xd0/0x160
wait_for_completion_timeout+0x54/0x74
rpmh_write_batch+0x1fc/0x23c
qcom_icc_bcm_voter_commit+0x1b4/0x388
qcom_icc_set+0x2c/0x3c
apply_constraints+0x5c/0x98
icc_set_bw+0x204/0x3bc
icc_put+0x30/0xf8
geni_remove_earlycon_icc_vote+0x6c/0x9c
qcom_geni_serial_earlycon_exit+0x10/0x1c
kgdboc_earlycon_deinit+0x38/0x58
kgdb_register_io_module+0x11c/0x194
configure_kgdboc+0x108/0x174
kgdboc_probe+0x38/0x60
platform_drv_probe+0x90/0xb0
really_probe+0x130/0x2fc
...The problem was that we were holding the "kgdb_registration_lock"
while calling into code that didn't expect to be called in spinlock
context.Let's slightly defer when we call the deinit code so that it's not
done under spinlock.NOTE: this does mean that the "deinit" call of the old kgdb IO module
is now made _after_ the init of the new IO module, but presumably
that's OK.[1] https://lkml.kernel.org/r/1588919619-21355-3-git-send-email-akashast@codeaurora.org
Fixes: 220995622da5 ("kgdboc: Add kgdboc_earlycon to support early kgdb using boot consoles")
Signed-off-by: Douglas Anderson
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20200526142001.1.I523dc33f96589cb9956f5679976d402c8cda36fa@changeid
[daniel.thompson@linaro.org: Resolved merge issues by hand]
Signed-off-by: Daniel Thompson
19 May, 2020
4 commits
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The break instruction in RISC-V does not have an immediate value field, so
the kernel cannot identify the purpose of each trap exception through the
opcode. This makes the existing identification schemes in other
architecture unsuitable for the RISC-V kernel. To solve this problem, this
patch adds kgdb_has_hit_break(), which can help RISC-V kernel identify
the KGDB trap exception.Signed-off-by: Vincent Chen
Reviewed-by: Palmer Dabbelt
Acked-by: Daniel Thompson
Signed-off-by: Palmer Dabbelt -
We want to enable kgdb to debug the early parts of the kernel.
Unfortunately kgdb normally is a client of the tty API in the kernel
and serial drivers don't register to the tty layer until fairly late
in the boot process.Serial drivers do, however, commonly register a boot console. Let's
enable the kgdboc driver to work with boot consoles to provide early
debugging.This change co-opts the existing read() function pointer that's part
of "struct console". It's assumed that if a boot console (with the
flag CON_BOOT) has implemented read() that both the read() and write()
function are polling functions. That means they work without
interrupts and read() will return immediately (with 0 bytes read) if
there's nothing to read. This should be a safe assumption since it
appears that no current boot consoles implement read() right now and
there seems no reason to do so unless they wanted to support
"kgdboc_earlycon".The normal/expected way to make all this work is to use
"kgdboc_earlycon" and "kgdboc" together. You should point them both
to the same physical serial connection. At boot time, as the system
transitions from the boot console to the normal console (and registers
a tty), kgdb will switch over.One awkward part of all this, though, is that there can be a window
where the boot console goes away and we can't quite transtion over to
the main kgdboc that uses the tty layer. There are two main problems:1. The act of registering the tty doesn't cause any call into kgdboc
so there is a window of time when the tty is there but kgdboc's
init code hasn't been called so we can't transition to it.2. On some serial drivers the normal console inits (and replaces the
boot console) quite early in the system. Presumably these drivers
were coded up before earlycon worked as well as it does today and
probably they don't need to do this anymore, but it causes us
problems nontheless.Problem #1 is not too big of a deal somewhat due to the luck of probe
ordering. kgdboc is last in the tty/serial/Makefile so its probe gets
right after all other tty devices. It's not fun to rely on this, but
it does work for the most part.Problem #2 is a big deal, but only for some serial drivers. Other
serial drivers end up registering the console (which gets rid of the
boot console) and tty at nearly the same time.The way we'll deal with the window when the system has stopped using
the boot console and the time when we're setup using the tty is to
keep using the boot console. This may sound surprising, but it has
been found to work well in practice. If it doesn't work, it shouldn't
be too hard for a given serial driver to make it keep working.
Specifically, it's expected that the read()/write() function provided
in the boot console should be the same (or nearly the same) as the
normal kgdb polling functions. That means continuing to use them
should work just fine. To make things even more likely to work work
we'll also trap the recently added exit() function in the boot console
we're using and delay any calls to it until we're all done with the
boot console.NOTE: there could be ways to use all this in weird / unexpected ways.
If you do something like this, it's a bit of a buyer beware situation.
Specifically:
- If you specify only "kgdboc_earlycon" but not "kgdboc" then
(depending on your serial driver) things will probably work OK, but
you'll get a warning printed the first time you use kgdb after the
boot console is gone. You'd only be able to do this, of course, if
the serial driver you're running atop provided an early boot console.
- If your "kgdboc_earlycon" and "kgdboc" devices are not the same
device things should work OK, but it'll be your job to switch over
which device you're monitoring (including figuring out how to switch
over gdb in-flight if you're using it).When trying to enable "kgdboc_earlycon" it should be noted that the
names that are registered through the boot console layer and the tty
layer are not the same for the same port. For example when debugging
on one board I'd need to pass "kgdboc_earlycon=qcom_geni
kgdboc=ttyMSM0" to enable things properly. Since digging up the boot
console name is a pain and there will rarely be more than one boot
console enabled, you can provide the "kgdboc_earlycon" parameter
without specifying the name of the boot console. In this case we'll
just pick the first boot that implements read() that we find.This new "kgdboc_earlycon" parameter should be contrasted to the
existing "ekgdboc" parameter. While both provide a way to debug very
early, the usage and mechanisms are quite different. Specifically
"kgdboc_earlycon" is meant to be used in tandem with "kgdboc" and
there is a transition from one to the other. The "ekgdboc" parameter,
on the other hand, replaces the "kgdboc" parameter. It runs the same
logic as the "kgdboc" parameter but just relies on your TTY driver
being present super early. The only known usage of the old "ekgdboc"
parameter is documented as "ekgdboc=kbd earlyprintk=vga". It should
be noted that "kbd" has special treatment allowing it to init early as
a tty device.Signed-off-by: Douglas Anderson
Reviewed-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman
Tested-by: Sumit Garg
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20200507130644.v4.8.I8fba5961bf452ab92350654aa61957f23ecf0100@changeid
Signed-off-by: Daniel Thompson -
If we detect that we recursively entered the debugger we should hack
our I/O ops to NULL so that the panic() in the next line won't
actually cause another recursion into the debugger. The first line of
kgdb_panic() will check this and return.Signed-off-by: Douglas Anderson
Reviewed-by: Daniel Thompson
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20200507130644.v4.6.I89de39f68736c9de610e6f241e68d8dbc44bc266@changeid
Signed-off-by: Daniel Thompson -
Using kgdb requires at least some level of architecture-level
initialization. If nothing else, it relies on the architecture to
pass breakpoints / crashes onto kgdb.On some architectures this all works super early, specifically it
starts working at some point in time before Linux parses
early_params's. On other architectures it doesn't. A survey of a few
platforms:a) x86: Presumably it all works early since "ekgdboc" is documented to
work here.
b) arm64: Catching crashes works; with a simple patch breakpoints can
also be made to work.
c) arm: Nothing in kgdb works until
paging_init() -> devicemaps_init() -> early_trap_init()Let's be conservative and, by default, process "kgdbwait" (which tells
the kernel to drop into the debugger ASAP at boot) a bit later at
dbg_late_init() time. If an architecture has tested it and wants to
re-enable super early debugging, they can select the
ARCH_HAS_EARLY_DEBUG KConfig option. We'll do this for x86 to start.
It should be noted that dbg_late_init() is still called quite early in
the system.Note that this patch doesn't affect when kgdb runs its init. If kgdb
is set to initialize early it will still initialize when parsing
early_param's. This patch _only_ inhibits the initial breakpoint from
"kgdbwait". This means:* Without any extra patches arm64 platforms will at least catch
crashes after kgdb inits.
* arm platforms will catch crashes (and could handle a hardcoded
kgdb_breakpoint()) any time after early_trap_init() runs, even
before dbg_late_init().Signed-off-by: Douglas Anderson
Cc: Thomas Gleixner
Cc: Ingo Molnar
Cc: Borislav Petkov
Reviewed-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20200507130644.v4.4.I3113aea1b08d8ce36dc3720209392ae8b815201b@changeid
Signed-off-by: Daniel Thompson
18 May, 2020
1 commit
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In commit 81eaadcae81b ("kgdboc: disable the console lock when in
kgdb") we avoided the WARN_CONSOLE_UNLOCKED() yell when we were in
kgdboc. That still works fine, but it turns out that we get a similar
yell when using other I/O drivers. One example is the "I/O driver"
for the kgdb test suite (kgdbts). When I enabled that I again got the
same yells.Even though "kgdbts" doesn't actually interact with the user over the
console, using it still causes kgdb to print to the consoles. That
trips the same warning:
con_is_visible+0x60/0x68
con_scroll+0x110/0x1b8
lf+0x4c/0xc8
vt_console_print+0x1b8/0x348
vkdb_printf+0x320/0x89c
kdb_printf+0x68/0x90
kdb_main_loop+0x190/0x860
kdb_stub+0x2cc/0x3ec
kgdb_cpu_enter+0x268/0x744
kgdb_handle_exception+0x1a4/0x200
kgdb_compiled_brk_fn+0x34/0x44
brk_handler+0x7c/0xb8
do_debug_exception+0x1b4/0x228Let's increment/decrement the "ignore_console_lock_warning" variable
all the time when we enter the debugger.This will allow us to later revert commit 81eaadcae81b ("kgdboc:
disable the console lock when in kgdb").Signed-off-by: Douglas Anderson
Reviewed-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman
Reviewed-by: Daniel Thompson
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20200507130644.v4.1.Ied2b058357152ebcc8bf68edd6f20a11d98d7d4e@changeid
Signed-off-by: Daniel Thompson
15 May, 2020
1 commit
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With earlier commits, the API no longer discards the const-ness of the
sysrq_key_op. As such we can add the notation.Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman
Cc: Jiri Slaby
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Cc: Jason Wessel
Cc: Daniel Thompson
Cc: kgdb-bugreport@lists.sourceforge.net
Acked-by: Daniel Thompson
Signed-off-by: Emil Velikov
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20200513214351.2138580-9-emil.l.velikov@gmail.com
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman
07 May, 2020
1 commit
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Kernel doc does not understand POD variables to be referred to.
.../debug_core.c:73: warning: cannot understand function prototype:
'int kgdb_connected; 'Convert kernel doc to pure comment.
Fixes: dc7d55270521 ("kgdb: core")
Cc: Jason Wessel
Signed-off-by: Andy Shevchenko
Reviewed-by: Douglas Anderson
Signed-off-by: Daniel Thompson
04 Apr, 2020
1 commit
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Pull SPDX updates from Greg KH:
"Here are three SPDX patches for 5.7-rc1.One fixes up the SPDX tag for a single driver, while the other two go
through the tree and add SPDX tags for all of the .gitignore files as
needed.Nothing too complex, but you will get a merge conflict with your
current tree, that should be trivial to handle (one file modified by
two things, one file deleted.)All three of these have been in linux-next for a while, with no
reported issues other than the merge conflict"* tag 'spdx-5.7-rc1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/gregkh/spdx:
ASoC: MT6660: make spdxcheck.py happy
.gitignore: add SPDX License Identifier
.gitignore: remove too obvious comments
01 Apr, 2020
2 commits
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Currently the PROMPT variable could be abused to provoke the printf()
machinery to read outside the current stack frame. Normally this
doesn't matter becaues md is already a much better tool for reading
from memory.However the md command can be disabled by not setting KDB_ENABLE_MEM_READ.
Let's also prevent PROMPT from being modified in these circumstances.Whilst adding a comment to help future code reviewers we also remove
the #ifdef where PROMPT in consumed. There is no problem passing an
unused (0) to snprintf when !CONFIG_SMP.
argumentReported-by: Wang Xiayang
Signed-off-by: Daniel Thompson
Reviewed-by: Douglas Anderson -
Currently the code to manage the kdb history buffer uses strncpy() to
copy strings to/and from the history and exhibits the classic "but
nobody ever told me that strncpy() doesn't always terminate strings"
bug. Modern gcc compilers recognise this bug and issue a warning.In reality these calls will only abridge the copied string if kdb_read()
has *already* overflowed the command buffer. Thus the use of counted
copies here is only used to reduce the secondary effects of a bug
elsewhere in the code.Therefore transitioning these calls into strscpy() (without checking
the return code) is appropriate.Signed-off-by: Daniel Thompson
Reviewed-by: Douglas Anderson
25 Mar, 2020
1 commit
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Add SPDX License Identifier to all .gitignore files.
Signed-off-by: Masahiro Yamada
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman
06 Feb, 2020
1 commit
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This reverts commit bbfceba15f8d1260c328a254efc2b3f2deae4904.
When DBG_MAX_REG_NUM is zero then a number of symbols are conditionally
defined. It is therefore not possible to check it using C expressions.Reported-by: Anatoly Pugachev
Acked-by: Doug Anderson
Signed-off-by: Daniel Thompson
01 Feb, 2020
2 commits
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Replace open coded single-linked list iteration loop with for_each_console()
helper in use.Signed-off-by: Andy Shevchenko
Signed-off-by: Daniel Thompson -
The point bp is assigned a value that is never read, it is being
re-assigned later to bp = &kdb_breakpoints[lowbp] in a for-loop.
Remove the redundant assignment.Addresses-Coverity ("Unused value")
Signed-off-by: Colin Ian King
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20191128130753.181246-1-colin.king@canonical.com
Signed-off-by: Daniel Thompson
