Re: [PATCH v2] kernel/panic/kexec: fix "crash_kexec_post_notifiers" option issue in oops path

From: Baoquan He
Date: Sun Mar 22 2015 - 23:50:34 EST


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On 03/07/15 at 01:31am, "Hatayama, Daisuke/çå åè" wrote:
> The commit f06e5153f4ae2e2f3b0300f0e260e40cb7fefd45 introduced
> "crash_kexec_post_notifiers" kernel boot option, which toggles
> wheather panic() calls crash_kexec() before panic_notifiers and dump
> kmsg or after.
>
> The problem is that the commit overlooks panic_on_oops kernel boot
> option. If it is enabled, crash_kexec() is called directly without
> going through panic() in oops path.
>
> To fix this issue, this patch adds a check to
> "crash_kexec_post_notifiers" in the condition of kexec_should_crash().
>
> Also, put a comment in kexec_should_crash() to explain not obvious
> things on this patch.
>
> Signed-off-by: HATAYAMA Daisuke <d.hatayama@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Acked-by: Baoquan He <bhe@xxxxxxxxxx>
> Tested-by: Hidehiro Kawai <hidehiro.kawai.ez@xxxxxxxxxxx>
> Reviewed-by: Masami Hiramatsu <masami.hiramatsu.pt@xxxxxxxxxxx>
> ---
> include/linux/kernel.h | 3 +++
> kernel/kexec.c | 11 +++++++++++
> kernel/panic.c | 2 +-
> 3 files changed, 15 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
>
> diff --git a/include/linux/kernel.h b/include/linux/kernel.h
> index d6d630d..07483c7 100644
> --- a/include/linux/kernel.h
> +++ b/include/linux/kernel.h
> @@ -426,6 +426,9 @@ extern int panic_on_unrecovered_nmi;
> extern int panic_on_io_nmi;
> extern int panic_on_warn;
> extern int sysctl_panic_on_stackoverflow;
> +
> +extern bool crash_kexec_post_notifiers;
> +
> /*
> * Only to be used by arch init code. If the user over-wrote the default
> * CONFIG_PANIC_TIMEOUT, honor it.
> diff --git a/kernel/kexec.c b/kernel/kexec.c
> index 38c25b1..5bf6077 100644
> --- a/kernel/kexec.c
> +++ b/kernel/kexec.c
> @@ -84,6 +84,17 @@ struct resource crashk_low_res = {
>
> int kexec_should_crash(struct task_struct *p)
> {
> + /*
> + * If crash_kexec_post_notifiers is enabled, don't run
> + * crash_kexec() here yet, which must be run after panic
> + * notifiers in panic().
> + */
> + if (crash_kexec_post_notifiers)
> + return 0;
> + /*
> + * There are 4 panic() calls in do_exit() path, each of which
> + * calls corresponds to each of these 4 conditions.
> + */
> if (in_interrupt() || !p->pid || is_global_init(p) || panic_on_oops)
> return 1;
> return 0;
> diff --git a/kernel/panic.c b/kernel/panic.c
> index 8136ad7..79ca912 100644
> --- a/kernel/panic.c
> +++ b/kernel/panic.c
> @@ -32,7 +32,7 @@ static unsigned long tainted_mask;
> static int pause_on_oops;
> static int pause_on_oops_flag;
> static DEFINE_SPINLOCK(pause_on_oops_lock);
> -static bool crash_kexec_post_notifiers;
> +bool crash_kexec_post_notifiers;
> int panic_on_warn __read_mostly;
>
> int panic_timeout = CONFIG_PANIC_TIMEOUT;
> --
> 1.9.3
>
>
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