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| author |   Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com> | 2015-05-06 18:04:23 +0200 |
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| committer |   Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org> | 2015-05-07 12:02:50 +0200 |
| commit | aed5ed47724f6a7453fa62e3c90f3cee93edbfe3 (patch) | |
| tree | 216d3c4a8d7bfa2204052e89790f352ad0dcd1c1 /firmware | |
| parent | Merge tag 'for-linus-4.1b-rc2-tag' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/xen/tip (diff) | |
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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 <davej@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de>
Cc: Chris Metcalf <cmetcalf@ezchip.com>
Cc: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
Cc: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com>
Cc: Mike Galbraith <umgwanakikbuti@gmail.com>
Cc: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>
Cc: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Rafael J . Wysocki <rafael.j.wysocki@intel.com>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1430928266-24888-2-git-send-email-fweisbec@gmail.com
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
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