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-rw-r--r--arch/powerpc/kernel/kprobes.c10
1 files changed, 7 insertions, 3 deletions
diff --git a/arch/powerpc/kernel/kprobes.c b/arch/powerpc/kernel/kprobes.c
index 227510df8c55..6f96f65ebfe8 100644
--- a/arch/powerpc/kernel/kprobes.c
+++ b/arch/powerpc/kernel/kprobes.c
@@ -287,14 +287,18 @@ int kprobe_handler(struct pt_regs *regs)
p = get_kprobe(addr);
if (!p) {
- if (*addr != BREAKPOINT_INSTRUCTION) {
+ unsigned int instr;
+
+ if (probe_kernel_address(addr, instr))
+ goto no_kprobe;
+
+ if (instr != BREAKPOINT_INSTRUCTION) {
/*
* PowerPC has multiple variants of the "trap"
* instruction. If the current instruction is a
* trap variant, it could belong to someone else
*/
- kprobe_opcode_t cur_insn = *addr;
- if (is_trap(cur_insn))
+ if (is_trap(instr))
goto no_kprobe;
/*
* The breakpoint instruction was removed right