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Diffstat (limited to 'kernel/kcsan/report.c')
| -rw-r--r-- | kernel/kcsan/report.c | 9 |
1 files changed, 5 insertions, 4 deletions
diff --git a/kernel/kcsan/report.c b/kernel/kcsan/report.c index ac5f8345bae9..6b2fb1a6d8cd 100644 --- a/kernel/kcsan/report.c +++ b/kernel/kcsan/report.c @@ -606,10 +606,11 @@ void kcsan_report(const volatile void *ptr, size_t size, int access_type, goto out; /* - * With TRACE_IRQFLAGS, lockdep's IRQ trace state becomes corrupted if - * we do not turn off lockdep here; this could happen due to recursion - * into lockdep via KCSAN if we detect a race in utilities used by - * lockdep. + * Because we may generate reports when we're in scheduler code, the use + * of printk() could deadlock. Until such time that all printing code + * called in print_report() is scheduler-safe, accept the risk, and just + * get our message out. As such, also disable lockdep to hide the + * warning, and avoid disabling lockdep for the rest of the kernel. */ lockdep_off(); |