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Commit aed5ed47 authored by Frederic Weisbecker's avatar Frederic Weisbecker Committed by Ingo Molnar
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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: default avatarDave Jones <davej@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarFrederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: default avatarRik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
Acked-by: default avatarPeter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de>
Cc: Chris Metcalf <cmetcalf@ezchip.com>
Cc: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
Cc: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com>
Cc: Mike Galbraith <umgwanakikbuti@gmail.com>
Cc: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>
Cc: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Rafael J . Wysocki <rafael.j.wysocki@intel.com>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1430928266-24888-2-git-send-email-fweisbec@gmail.com
Signed-off-by: default avatarIngo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
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