3.8.13.5 -stable review patch. If anyone has any objections, please let me know. ------------------ From: Michael Neuling <mikey@xxxxxxxxxxx> commit b0b0aa9c7faf94e92320eabd8a1786c7747e40a8 upstream. The smallest match region for both the DABR and DAWR is 8 bytes, so the kernel needs to filter matches when users want to look at regions smaller than this. Currently we set the length of PPC_BREAKPOINT_MODE_EXACT breakpoints to 8. This is wrong as in exact mode we should only match on 1 address, hence the length should be 1. This ensures that the kernel will filter out any exact mode hardware breakpoint matches on any addresses other than the requested one. Signed-off-by: Michael Neuling <mikey@xxxxxxxxxxx> Reported-by: Edjunior Barbosa Machado <emachado@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Luis Henriques <luis.henriques@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- arch/powerpc/kernel/ptrace.c | 4 +++- 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/arch/powerpc/kernel/ptrace.c b/arch/powerpc/kernel/ptrace.c index c497000..33ff9be 100644 --- a/arch/powerpc/kernel/ptrace.c +++ b/arch/powerpc/kernel/ptrace.c @@ -1413,7 +1413,9 @@ static long ppc_set_hwdebug(struct task_struct *child, */ if (bp_info->addr_mode == PPC_BREAKPOINT_MODE_RANGE_INCLUSIVE) { len = bp_info->addr2 - bp_info->addr; - } else if (bp_info->addr_mode != PPC_BREAKPOINT_MODE_EXACT) { + } else if (bp_info->addr_mode == PPC_BREAKPOINT_MODE_EXACT) + len = 1; + else { ptrace_put_breakpoints(child); return -EINVAL; } -- 1.8.1.2 -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe stable" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html