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| author |   Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de> | 2006-07-28 14:44:42 +0200 |
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| committer |   Linus Torvalds <torvalds@g5.osdl.org> | 2006-07-28 19:28:00 -0700 |
| commit | d5a2601734bcc740ee78dc4cb0c56b5687da7bd9 (patch) | |
| tree | 42146e7eda57909a475ad69cee5cacbf39033cff /scripts/patch-kernel | |
| parent | Merge branch 'for-linus' of git://git390.osdl.marist.edu/pub/scm/linux-2.6 (diff) | |
[PATCH] i386/x86-64: Add user_mode checks to profile_pc for oprofile
Fixes a obscure user space triggerable crash during oprofiling.
Oprofile calls profile_pc from NMIs even when user_mode(regs) is not true and
the program counter is inside the kernel lock section. This opens
a race - when a user program jumps to a kernel lock address and
a NMI happens before the illegal page fault exception is raised
and the program has a unmapped esp or ebp then the kernel could
oops. NMIs have a higher priority than exceptions so that could
happen.
Add user_mode checks to i386/x86-64 profile_pc to prevent that.
Cc: John Levon <levon@movementarian.org>
Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
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