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powerpc: Use probe_kernel_address in show_instructions

We really don't want to take a pagefault in show_instructions,
so use probe_kernel_address instead of __get_user.

Signed-off-by: Anton Blanchard <anton@samba.org>
Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au>
Anton Blanchard 11 years ago
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7b051f665c
1 changed files with 2 additions and 6 deletions
  1. 2 6
      arch/powerpc/kernel/process.c

+ 2 - 6
arch/powerpc/kernel/process.c

@@ -37,9 +37,9 @@
 #include <linux/personality.h>
 #include <linux/random.h>
 #include <linux/hw_breakpoint.h>
+#include <linux/uaccess.h>
 
 #include <asm/pgtable.h>
-#include <asm/uaccess.h>
 #include <asm/io.h>
 #include <asm/processor.h>
 #include <asm/mmu.h>
@@ -921,12 +921,8 @@ static void show_instructions(struct pt_regs *regs)
 			pc = (unsigned long)phys_to_virt(pc);
 #endif
 
-		/* We use __get_user here *only* to avoid an OOPS on a
-		 * bad address because the pc *should* only be a
-		 * kernel address.
-		 */
 		if (!__kernel_text_address(pc) ||
-		     __get_user(instr, (unsigned int __user *)pc)) {
+		     probe_kernel_address((unsigned int __user *)pc, instr)) {
 			printk(KERN_CONT "XXXXXXXX ");
 		} else {
 			if (regs->nip == pc)