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authorSteven Rostedt <srostedt@redhat.com>2010-11-10 12:56:12 +0100
committerSteven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>2010-11-12 21:20:08 -0500
commit91e86e560d0b3ce4c5fc64fd2bbb99f856a30a4e (patch)
tree26d7afb8373474a4d44d0eba4130499676c35bc7 /kernel
parentb5908548537ccd3ada258ca5348df7ffc93e5a06 (diff)
downloadlinux-91e86e560d0b3ce4c5fc64fd2bbb99f856a30a4e.tar.gz
tracing: Fix recursive user stack trace
The user stack trace can fault when examining the trace. Which
would call the do_page_fault handler, which would trace again,
which would do the user stack trace, which would fault and call
do_page_fault again ...

Thus this is causing a recursive bug. We need to have a recursion
detector here.

[ Resubmitted by Jiri Olsa ]

[ Eric Dumazet recommended using __this_cpu_* instead of __get_cpu_* ]

Cc: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@redhat.com>
LKML-Reference: <1289390172-9730-3-git-send-email-jolsa@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'kernel')
-rw-r--r--kernel/trace/trace.c19
1 files changed, 19 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/kernel/trace/trace.c b/kernel/trace/trace.c
index 82d9b8106cd0..ee6a7339cf0e 100644
--- a/kernel/trace/trace.c
+++ b/kernel/trace/trace.c
@@ -1284,6 +1284,8 @@ void trace_dump_stack(void)
 	__ftrace_trace_stack(global_trace.buffer, flags, 3, preempt_count());
 }
 
+static DEFINE_PER_CPU(int, user_stack_count);
+
 void
 ftrace_trace_userstack(struct ring_buffer *buffer, unsigned long flags, int pc)
 {
@@ -1302,6 +1304,18 @@ ftrace_trace_userstack(struct ring_buffer *buffer, unsigned long flags, int pc)
 	if (unlikely(in_nmi()))
 		return;
 
+	/*
+	 * prevent recursion, since the user stack tracing may
+	 * trigger other kernel events.
+	 */
+	preempt_disable();
+	if (__this_cpu_read(user_stack_count))
+		goto out;
+
+	__this_cpu_inc(user_stack_count);
+
+
+
 	event = trace_buffer_lock_reserve(buffer, TRACE_USER_STACK,
 					  sizeof(*entry), flags, pc);
 	if (!event)
@@ -1319,6 +1333,11 @@ ftrace_trace_userstack(struct ring_buffer *buffer, unsigned long flags, int pc)
 	save_stack_trace_user(&trace);
 	if (!filter_check_discard(call, entry, buffer, event))
 		ring_buffer_unlock_commit(buffer, event);
+
+	__this_cpu_dec(user_stack_count);
+
+ out:
+	preempt_enable();
 }
 
 #ifdef UNUSED