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authorFrederic Weisbecker <[email protected]>2015-05-06 18:04:23 +0200
committerIngo Molnar <[email protected]>2015-05-07 12:02:50 +0200
commitaed5ed47724f6a7453fa62e3c90f3cee93edbfe3 (patch)
tree216d3c4a8d7bfa2204052e89790f352ad0dcd1c1 /lib/memory-notifier-error-inject.c
parent0e1dc4274828f64fcb56fc7b950acdc5ff7a395f (diff)
context_tracking: Protect against recursion
Context tracking recursion can happen when an exception triggers in the middle of a call to a context tracking probe. This special case can be caused by vmalloc faults. If an access to a memory area allocated by vmalloc happens in the middle of context_tracking_enter(), we may run into an endless fault loop because the exception in turn calls context_tracking_enter() which faults on the same vmalloc'ed memory, triggering an exception again, etc... Some rare crashes have been reported so lets protect against this with a recursion counter. Reported-by: Dave Jones <[email protected]> Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <[email protected]> Reviewed-by: Rik van Riel <[email protected]> Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <[email protected]> Cc: Borislav Petkov <[email protected]> Cc: Chris Metcalf <[email protected]> Cc: H. Peter Anvin <[email protected]> Cc: Martin Schwidefsky <[email protected]> Cc: Mike Galbraith <[email protected]> Cc: Oleg Nesterov <[email protected]> Cc: Paul E. McKenney <[email protected]> Cc: Rafael J . Wysocki <[email protected]> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <[email protected]> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/[email protected] Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <[email protected]>
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