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x86: Ignore trap bits on single step exceptions
authorFrederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Thu, 11 Nov 2010 20:18:43 +0000 (21:18 +0100)
committerFrederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Fri, 12 Nov 2010 13:51:01 +0000 (14:51 +0100)
commit6c0aca288e726405b01dacb12cac556454d34b2a
tree97df095d38cdbb6de009df8786bbafb697bdfab8
parent169ed55bd30305b933f52bfab32a58671d44ab68
x86: Ignore trap bits on single step exceptions

When a single step exception fires, the trap bits, used to
signal hardware breakpoints, are in a random state.

These trap bits might be set if another exception will follow,
like a breakpoint in the next instruction, or a watchpoint in the
previous one. Or there can be any junk there.

So if we handle these trap bits during the single step exception,
we are going to handle an exception twice, or we are going to
handle junk.

Just ignore them in this case.

This fixes https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=21332

Reported-by: Michael Stefaniuc <mstefani@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Cc: Rafael J. Wysocki <rjw@sisk.pl>
Cc: Maciej Rutecki <maciej.rutecki@gmail.com>
Cc: Alexandre Julliard <julliard@winehq.org>
Cc: Jason Wessel <jason.wessel@windriver.com>
Cc: All since 2.6.33.x <stable@kernel.org>
arch/x86/kernel/hw_breakpoint.c