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powerpc: Use probe_kernel_address in show_instructions

Message ID 1413192435-2797-1-git-send-email-anton@samba.org (mailing list archive)
State Accepted
Commit 7b051f665c32db3339ac9b6d9806ef508d09647f
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Anton Blanchard Oct. 13, 2014, 9:27 a.m. UTC 
We really don't want to take a pagefault in show_instructions,
so use probe_kernel_address instead of __get_user.

Signed-off-by: Anton Blanchard <anton@samba.org>
---
 arch/powerpc/kernel/process.c | 8 ++------
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-)
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diff --git a/arch/powerpc/kernel/process.c b/arch/powerpc/kernel/process.c
index 923cd2d..e5698f1 100644
--- a/arch/powerpc/kernel/process.c
+++ b/arch/powerpc/kernel/process.c
@@ -37,9 +37,9 @@ 
 #include <linux/personality.h>
 #include <linux/random.h>
 #include <linux/hw_breakpoint.h>
+#include <linux/uaccess.h>
 
 #include <asm/pgtable.h>
-#include <asm/uaccess.h>
 #include <asm/io.h>
 #include <asm/processor.h>
 #include <asm/mmu.h>
@@ -921,12 +921,8 @@  static void show_instructions(struct pt_regs *regs)
 			pc = (unsigned long)phys_to_virt(pc);
 #endif
 
-		/* We use __get_user here *only* to avoid an OOPS on a
-		 * bad address because the pc *should* only be a
-		 * kernel address.
-		 */
 		if (!__kernel_text_address(pc) ||
-		     __get_user(instr, (unsigned int __user *)pc)) {
+		     probe_kernel_address((unsigned int __user *)pc, instr)) {
 			printk(KERN_CONT "XXXXXXXX ");
 		} else {
 			if (regs->nip == pc)