4.13-stable review patch. If anyone has any objections, please let me know. ------------------ From: Naveen N. Rao <naveen.n.rao@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> commit e6c4dcb308160115287afd87afb63b5684d75a5b upstream. This makes the changes introduced in commit 83e840c770f2c5 ("powerpc64/elfv1: Only dereference function descriptor for non-text symbols") to be specific to the kprobe subsystem. We previously changed ppc_function_entry() to always check the provided address to confirm if it needed to be dereferenced. This is actually only an issue for kprobe blacklisted asm labels (through use of _ASM_NOKPROBE_SYMBOL) and can cause other issues with ftrace. Also, the additional checks are not really necessary for our other uses. As such, move this check to the kprobes subsystem. Fixes: 83e840c770f2 ("powerpc64/elfv1: Only dereference function descriptor for non-text symbols") Signed-off-by: Naveen N. Rao <naveen.n.rao@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman <mpe@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- arch/powerpc/kernel/kprobes.c | 7 ++++++- 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) --- a/arch/powerpc/kernel/kprobes.c +++ b/arch/powerpc/kernel/kprobes.c @@ -600,7 +600,12 @@ NOKPROBE_SYMBOL(kprobe_fault_handler); unsigned long arch_deref_entry_point(void *entry) { - return ppc_global_function_entry(entry); +#ifdef PPC64_ELF_ABI_v1 + if (!kernel_text_address((unsigned long)entry)) + return ppc_global_function_entry(entry); + else +#endif + return (unsigned long)entry; } NOKPROBE_SYMBOL(arch_deref_entry_point);