From aed5ed47724f6a7453fa62e3c90f3cee93edbfe3 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Frederic Weisbecker Date: Wed, 6 May 2015 18:04:23 +0200 Subject: 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 Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker Reviewed-by: Rik van Riel Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) Cc: Borislav Petkov Cc: Chris Metcalf Cc: H. Peter Anvin Cc: Martin Schwidefsky Cc: Mike Galbraith Cc: Oleg Nesterov Cc: Paul E. McKenney Cc: Rafael J . Wysocki Cc: Thomas Gleixner Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1430928266-24888-2-git-send-email-fweisbec@gmail.com Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar --- include/linux/context_tracking_state.h | 1 + 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+) (limited to 'include') diff --git a/include/linux/context_tracking_state.h b/include/linux/context_tracking_state.h index 6b7b96a32b75..678ecdf90cf6 100644 --- a/include/linux/context_tracking_state.h +++ b/include/linux/context_tracking_state.h @@ -12,6 +12,7 @@ struct context_tracking { * may be further optimized using static keys. */ bool active; + int recursion; enum ctx_state { CONTEXT_KERNEL = 0, CONTEXT_USER, -- cgit v1.2.3