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authorSteven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>2016-03-17 22:21:12 +0100
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>2016-03-17 23:09:34 +0100
commitdfbf2897d00499f94cd53a9806e697392cbfe6a3 (patch)
tree8924f5944414db64bed0ec43f861b17ce91afcbc
parentarch/mn10300/kernel/fpu-nofpu.c: needs asm/elf.h (diff)
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bug: set warn variable before calling WARN()
This has hit me a couple of times already. I would be debugging code and the system would simply hang and then reboot. Finally, I found that the problem was caused by WARN_ON_ONCE() and friends. The macro WARN_ON_ONCE(condition) is defined as: static bool __section(.data.unlikely) __warned; int __ret_warn_once = !!(condition); if (unlikely(__ret_warn_once)) if (WARN_ON(!__warned)) __warned = true; unlikely(__ret_warn_once); Which looks great and all. But what I have hit, is an issue when WARN_ON() itself hits the same WARN_ON_ONCE() code. Because, the variable __warned is not yet set. Then it too calls WARN_ON() and that triggers the warning again. It keeps doing this until the stack is overflowed and the system crashes. By setting __warned first before calling WARN_ON() makes the original WARN_ON_ONCE() really only warn once, and not an infinite amount of times if the WARN_ON() also triggers the warning. Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org> Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
-rw-r--r--include/asm-generic/bug.h21
1 files changed, 12 insertions, 9 deletions
diff --git a/include/asm-generic/bug.h b/include/asm-generic/bug.h
index 630dd2372238..fdf6fa078422 100644
--- a/include/asm-generic/bug.h
+++ b/include/asm-generic/bug.h
@@ -110,9 +110,10 @@ extern void warn_slowpath_null(const char *file, const int line);
static bool __section(.data.unlikely) __warned; \
int __ret_warn_once = !!(condition); \
\
- if (unlikely(__ret_warn_once)) \
- if (WARN_ON(!__warned)) \
- __warned = true; \
+ if (unlikely(__ret_warn_once && !__warned)) { \
+ __warned = true; \
+ WARN_ON(1); \
+ } \
unlikely(__ret_warn_once); \
})
@@ -120,9 +121,10 @@ extern void warn_slowpath_null(const char *file, const int line);
static bool __section(.data.unlikely) __warned; \
int __ret_warn_once = !!(condition); \
\
- if (unlikely(__ret_warn_once)) \
- if (WARN(!__warned, format)) \
- __warned = true; \
+ if (unlikely(__ret_warn_once && !__warned)) { \
+ __warned = true; \
+ WARN(1, format); \
+ } \
unlikely(__ret_warn_once); \
})
@@ -130,9 +132,10 @@ extern void warn_slowpath_null(const char *file, const int line);
static bool __section(.data.unlikely) __warned; \
int __ret_warn_once = !!(condition); \
\
- if (unlikely(__ret_warn_once)) \
- if (WARN_TAINT(!__warned, taint, format)) \
- __warned = true; \
+ if (unlikely(__ret_warn_once && !__warned)) { \
+ __warned = true; \
+ WARN_TAINT(1, taint, format); \
+ } \
unlikely(__ret_warn_once); \
})