commit 63be1a81e40733ecd175713b6a7558dc43f00851
author Naveen N. Rao <naveen.n.rao@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Mon Oct 30 20:42:08 2017 +0530
committer Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au> Wed Nov 01 15:50:12 2017 +1100
tree 94a99c909695d99dd371f94cccb385141a7eaf97
parent 26e53d5ebe2e2a5ff7343e820f0ffd69dd503f8e

Revert "powerpc64/elfv1: Only dereference function descriptor for non-text symbols"

This reverts commit 83e840c770f2c5 ("powerpc64/elfv1: Only dereference
function descriptor for non-text symbols").

Chandan reported that on newer kernels, trying to enable function_graph
tracer on ppc64 (BE) locks up the system with the following trace:

  Unable to handle kernel paging request for data at address 0x600000002fa30010
  Faulting instruction address: 0xc0000000001f1300
  Thread overran stack, or stack corrupted
  Oops: Kernel access of bad area, sig: 11 [#1]
  BE SMP NR_CPUS=2048 DEBUG_PAGEALLOC NUMA pSeries
  Modules linked in:
  CPU: 1 PID: 6586 Comm: bash Not tainted 4.14.0-rc3-00162-g6e51f1f-dirty #20
  task: c000000625c07200 task.stack: c000000625c07310
  NIP:  c0000000001f1300 LR: c000000000121cac CTR: c000000000061af8
  REGS: c000000625c088c0 TRAP: 0380   Not tainted  (4.14.0-rc3-00162-g6e51f1f-dirty)
  MSR:  8000000000001032 <SF,ME,IR,DR,RI>  CR: 28002848  XER: 00000000
  CFAR: c0000000001f1320 SOFTE: 0
  ...
  NIP [c0000000001f1300] .__is_insn_slot_addr+0x30/0x90
  LR [c000000000121cac] .kernel_text_address+0x18c/0x1c0
  Call Trace:
  [c000000625c08b40] [c0000000001bd040] .is_module_text_address+0x20/0x40 (unreliable)
  [c000000625c08bc0] [c000000000121cac] .kernel_text_address+0x18c/0x1c0
  [c000000625c08c50] [c000000000061960] .prepare_ftrace_return+0x50/0x130
  [c000000625c08cf0] [c000000000061b10] .ftrace_graph_caller+0x14/0x34
  [c000000625c08d60] [c000000000121b40] .kernel_text_address+0x20/0x1c0
  [c000000625c08df0] [c000000000061960] .prepare_ftrace_return+0x50/0x130
  ...
  [c000000625c0ab30] [c000000000061960] .prepare_ftrace_return+0x50/0x130
  [c000000625c0abd0] [c000000000061b10] .ftrace_graph_caller+0x14/0x34
  [c000000625c0ac40] [c000000000121b40] .kernel_text_address+0x20/0x1c0
  [c000000625c0acd0] [c000000000061960] .prepare_ftrace_return+0x50/0x130
  [c000000625c0ad70] [c000000000061b10] .ftrace_graph_caller+0x14/0x34
  [c000000625c0ade0] [c000000000121b40] .kernel_text_address+0x20/0x1c0

This is because ftrace is using ppc_function_entry() for obtaining the
address of return_to_handler() in prepare_ftrace_return(). The call to
kernel_text_address() itself gets traced and we end up in a recursive
loop.

Fixes: 83e840c770f2 ("powerpc64/elfv1: Only dereference function descriptor for non-text symbols")
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org # v4.13+
Reported-by: Chandan Rajendra <chandan@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Naveen N. Rao <naveen.n.rao@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au>