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Peter Zijlstra 8b405d5c5d locking/lockdep: Fix stacktrace mess
There is some complication between check_prevs_add() and
check_prev_add() wrt. saving stack traces. The problem is that we want
to be frugal with saving stack traces, since it consumes static
resources.

We'll only know in check_prev_add() if we need the trace, but we can
call into it multiple times. So we want to do on-demand and re-use.

A further complication is that check_prev_add() can drop graph_lock
and mess with our static resources.

In any case, the current state; after commit:

  ce07a9415f ("locking/lockdep: Make check_prev_add() able to handle external stack_trace")

is that we'll assume the trace contains valid data once
check_prev_add() returns '2'. However, as noted by Josh, this is
false, check_prev_add() can return '2' before having saved a trace,
this then result in the possibility of using uninitialized data.
Testing, as reported by Wu, shows a NULL deref.

So simplify.

Since the graph_lock() thing is a debug path that hasn't
really been used in a long while, take it out back and avoid the
head-ache.

Further initialize the stack_trace to a known 'empty' state; as long
as nr_entries == 0, nothing should deref entries. We can then use the
'entries == NULL' test for a valid trace / on-demand saving.

Analyzed-by: Josh Poimboeuf <jpoimboe@redhat.com>
Reported-by: Fengguang Wu <fengguang.wu@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Byungchul Park <byungchul.park@lge.com>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Fixes: ce07a9415f ("locking/lockdep: Make check_prev_add() able to handle external stack_trace")
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
2017-10-10 10:04:28 +02:00
arch Merge branch 'ppc-bundle' (bundle from Michael Ellerman) 2017-10-09 19:08:32 -07:00
block bsg-lib: fix use-after-free under memory-pressure 2017-10-04 08:35:04 -06:00
certs modsign: add markers to endif-statements in certs/Makefile 2017-07-14 11:01:37 +10:00
crypto crypto: af_alg - update correct dst SGL entry 2017-09-20 17:42:42 +08:00
Documentation Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net 2017-10-09 16:25:00 -07:00
drivers Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net 2017-10-09 16:25:00 -07:00
firmware firmware: Restore support for built-in firmware 2017-09-16 10:58:48 -07:00
fs NFS client bugfixes for Linux 4.14 2017-10-09 10:55:37 -07:00
include Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net 2017-10-09 16:25:00 -07:00
init Merge branch 'work.mount' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/vfs 2017-09-14 18:54:01 -07:00
ipc fix a typo in put_compat_shm_info() 2017-09-25 20:41:46 -04:00
kernel locking/lockdep: Fix stacktrace mess 2017-10-10 10:04:28 +02:00
lib lib/ratelimit.c: use deferred printk() version 2017-10-03 17:54:26 -07:00
mm mm/memory_hotplug: define find_{smallest|biggest}_section_pfn as unsigned long 2017-10-03 17:54:26 -07:00
net Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net 2017-10-09 16:25:00 -07:00
samples media updates for v4.14-rc1 2017-09-07 12:53:14 -07:00
scripts checkpatch: fix ignoring cover-letter logic 2017-10-03 17:54:26 -07:00
security lsm: fix smack_inode_removexattr and xattr_getsecurity memleak 2017-10-04 18:03:15 +11:00
sound sound fixes for 4.14-rc4 2017-10-05 10:39:29 -07:00
tools selftests/net: rxtimestamp: Fix an off by one 2017-10-05 21:28:53 -07:00
usr ramfs: clarify help text that compression applies to ramfs as well as legacy ramdisk. 2017-07-06 16:24:30 -07:00
virt Revert "KVM: Don't accept obviously wrong gsi values via KVM_IRQFD" 2017-09-19 08:37:17 +02:00
.cocciconfig scripts: add Linux .cocciconfig for coccinelle 2016-07-22 12:13:39 +02:00
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.gitignore kbuild: Add support to generate LLVM assembly files 2017-04-25 08:13:52 +09:00
.mailmap Update James Hogan's email address 2017-10-04 17:11:53 -07:00
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CREDITS selinux/stable-4.14 PR 20170831 2017-09-12 13:21:00 -07:00
Kbuild kbuild: Consolidate header generation from ASM offset information 2017-04-13 05:43:37 +09:00
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MAINTAINERS ARC udpates for 4.14-rc4 2017-10-06 15:57:08 -07:00
Makefile Linux 4.14-rc4 2017-10-08 20:53:29 -07:00
README README: add a new README file, pointing to the Documentation/ 2016-10-24 08:12:35 -02:00

Linux kernel
============

This file was moved to Documentation/admin-guide/README.rst

Please notice that there are several guides for kernel developers and users.
These guides can be rendered in a number of formats, like HTML and PDF.

In order to build the documentation, use ``make htmldocs`` or
``make pdfdocs``.

There are various text files in the Documentation/ subdirectory,
several of them using the Restructured Text markup notation.
See Documentation/00-INDEX for a list of what is contained in each file.

Please read the Documentation/process/changes.rst file, as it contains the
requirements for building and running the kernel, and information about
the problems which may result by upgrading your kernel.