Re: [PATCH 1/3] context_tracking: Protect against recursion

[Rik van Riel]

On 04/02/2015 01:39 PM, Frederic Weisbecker wrote:
> 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@xxxxxxxxxx>
> Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@xxxxxxxxx>
> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@xxxxxxxxxx>
> Cc: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@xxxxxxxxxx>
> Cc: Dave Jones <davej@xxxxxxxxxx>
> Cc: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@xxxxxxxxxx>

Reviewed-by: Rik van Riel <riel@xxxxxxxxxx>

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