When ftrace is used with kprobes, it is possible for a kprobe to contain an invalid location (ie. only initialised to 0 and not to a specific location in the code). Trying to perform a cache flush on such location leads to a crash r4k_flush_icache_range(). Signed-off-by: Marcin Nowakowski <marcin.nowakowski@xxxxxxxxxx> --- arch/mips/include/asm/kprobes.h | 3 ++- 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/arch/mips/include/asm/kprobes.h b/arch/mips/include/asm/kprobes.h index 291846d..ad1a999 100644 --- a/arch/mips/include/asm/kprobes.h +++ b/arch/mips/include/asm/kprobes.h @@ -43,7 +43,8 @@ typedef union mips_instruction kprobe_opcode_t; #define flush_insn_slot(p) \ do { \ - flush_icache_range((unsigned long)p->addr, \ + if (p->addr) \ + flush_icache_range((unsigned long)p->addr, \ (unsigned long)p->addr + \ (MAX_INSN_SIZE * sizeof(kprobe_opcode_t))); \ } while (0) -- 2.7.4