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authorAneesh Kumar K.V <aneesh.kumar@linux.vnet.ibm.com>2015-11-05 18:50:51 -0800
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>2015-11-05 19:34:48 -0800
commitfc5aeeaf593278f07ffa4d97296e27423ecae867 (patch)
tree17b6521e9f9ba2d43d6d0b4d416d5a599e561980 /mm/kasan
parentf2377d4eaab2aabe1938b3974b5b94f5ba4c7ead (diff)
downloadlinux-fc5aeeaf593278f07ffa4d97296e27423ecae867.tar.gz
mm/kasan: prevent deadlock in kasan reporting
When we end up calling kasan_report in real mode, our shadow mapping for
the spinlock variable will show poisoned.  This will result in us calling
kasan_report_error with lock_report spin lock held.  To prevent this
disable kasan reporting when we are priting error w.r.t kasan.

Signed-off-by: Aneesh Kumar K.V <aneesh.kumar@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Reviewed-by: Andrey Ryabinin <ryabinin.a.a@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'mm/kasan')
-rw-r--r--mm/kasan/report.c12
1 files changed, 10 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/mm/kasan/report.c b/mm/kasan/report.c
index c5367089703c..7833f074ede8 100644
--- a/mm/kasan/report.c
+++ b/mm/kasan/report.c
@@ -173,12 +173,10 @@ static void print_shadow_for_address(const void *addr)
 		 * function, because generic functions may try to
 		 * access kasan mapping for the passed address.
 		 */
-		kasan_disable_current();
 		memcpy(shadow_buf, shadow_row, SHADOW_BYTES_PER_ROW);
 		print_hex_dump(KERN_ERR, buffer,
 			DUMP_PREFIX_NONE, SHADOW_BYTES_PER_ROW, 1,
 			shadow_buf, SHADOW_BYTES_PER_ROW, 0);
-		kasan_enable_current();
 
 		if (row_is_guilty(shadow_row, shadow))
 			pr_err("%*c\n",
@@ -195,6 +193,10 @@ void kasan_report_error(struct kasan_access_info *info)
 {
 	unsigned long flags;
 
+	/*
+	 * Make sure we don't end up in loop.
+	 */
+	kasan_disable_current();
 	spin_lock_irqsave(&report_lock, flags);
 	pr_err("================================="
 		"=================================\n");
@@ -204,12 +206,17 @@ void kasan_report_error(struct kasan_access_info *info)
 	pr_err("================================="
 		"=================================\n");
 	spin_unlock_irqrestore(&report_lock, flags);
+	kasan_enable_current();
 }
 
 void kasan_report_user_access(struct kasan_access_info *info)
 {
 	unsigned long flags;
 
+	/*
+	 * Make sure we don't end up in loop.
+	 */
+	kasan_disable_current();
 	spin_lock_irqsave(&report_lock, flags);
 	pr_err("================================="
 		"=================================\n");
@@ -222,6 +229,7 @@ void kasan_report_user_access(struct kasan_access_info *info)
 	pr_err("================================="
 		"=================================\n");
 	spin_unlock_irqrestore(&report_lock, flags);
+	kasan_enable_current();
 }
 
 void kasan_report(unsigned long addr, size_t size,