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arm64: debug: don't re-enable debug exceptions on return from el1_dbg
authorWill Deacon <will.deacon@arm.com>
Mon, 22 Sep 2014 10:19:04 +0000 (11:19 +0100)
committerCatalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com>
Tue, 23 Sep 2014 14:49:34 +0000 (15:49 +0100)
commit1059c6bf8534acda249e7e65c81e7696fb074dc1
treec68d66498a9118a75a185a18bae0e635fa9abbbb
parent6f325eaa86f167f8c1e1ffa288dfb991248a6ac7
arm64: debug: don't re-enable debug exceptions on return from el1_dbg

When returning from a debug exception taken from EL1, we unmask debug
exceptions after handling the exception. This is crucial for debug
exceptions taken from EL0, so that any kernel work on the ret_to_user
path can be debugged by kgdb.

However, when returning back to EL1 the only thing left to do is to
restore the original register state before the exception return. If
single-step has been enabled by the debug exception handler, we will
get stuck in an infinite debug exception loop, since we will take the
step exception as soon as we unmask debug exceptions.

This patch avoids unmasking debug exceptions on the debug exception
return path when the exception was taken from EL1.

Fixes: 2a2830703a23 (arm64: debug: avoid accessing mdscr_el1 on fault paths where possible)
Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org> #3.16+
Reported-by: David Long <dave.long@linaro.org>
Reported-by: AKASHI Takahiro <takahiro.akashi@linaro.org>
Signed-off-by: Will Deacon <will.deacon@arm.com>
Signed-off-by: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com>
arch/arm64/kernel/entry.S