[PATCH 7/7] powerpc: Serialise BUG and WARNs with die_spin_lock_{irqsave, irqrestore}

Anton Blanchard anton at samba.org
Tue Feb 24 14:30:34 AEDT 2015


A simple kernel module was used to create concurrent WARNs and BUGs:

http://ozlabs.org/~anton/junkcode/warnstorm.tar.gz

Signed-off-by: Anton Blanchard <anton at samba.org>
---
 arch/powerpc/kernel/traps.c | 44 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++--------
 1 file changed, 36 insertions(+), 8 deletions(-)

diff --git a/arch/powerpc/kernel/traps.c b/arch/powerpc/kernel/traps.c
index 4cc1e72..f779557 100644
--- a/arch/powerpc/kernel/traps.c
+++ b/arch/powerpc/kernel/traps.c
@@ -1114,6 +1114,39 @@ static int emulate_math(struct pt_regs *regs)
 static inline int emulate_math(struct pt_regs *regs) { return -1; }
 #endif
 
+static bool __report_bug(unsigned long bugaddr, struct pt_regs *regs)
+{
+	const struct bug_entry *bug;
+	unsigned long flags;
+	int err;
+
+	if (!is_valid_bugaddr(bugaddr))
+		return false;
+
+	bug = find_bug(bugaddr);
+	if (!bug)
+		return false;
+
+	if (is_warning_bug(bug)) {
+		die_spin_lock_irqsave(flags);
+		report_bug(bugaddr, regs);
+		die_spin_unlock_irqrestore(flags);
+
+		regs->nip += 4;
+
+		return true;
+	}
+
+	flags = oops_begin(regs);
+	report_bug(bugaddr, regs);
+	err = SIGTRAP;
+	if (__die("Exception in kernel mode", regs, err))
+		err = 0;
+	oops_end(flags, regs, err);
+
+	return true;
+}
+
 void __kprobes program_check_exception(struct pt_regs *regs)
 {
 	enum ctx_state prev_state = exception_enter();
@@ -1138,11 +1171,9 @@ void __kprobes program_check_exception(struct pt_regs *regs)
 				== NOTIFY_STOP)
 			goto bail;
 
-		if (!(regs->msr & MSR_PR) &&  /* not user-mode */
-		    report_bug(regs->nip, regs) == BUG_TRAP_TYPE_WARN) {
-			regs->nip += 4;
+		if (!user_mode(regs) && __report_bug(regs->nip, regs))
 			goto bail;
-		}
+
 		_exception(SIGTRAP, regs, TRAP_BRKPT, regs->nip);
 		goto bail;
 	}
@@ -1157,11 +1188,8 @@ void __kprobes program_check_exception(struct pt_regs *regs)
 		 * -  A tend is illegally attempted.
 		 * -  writing a TM SPR when transactional.
 		 */
-		if (!user_mode(regs) &&
-		    report_bug(regs->nip, regs) == BUG_TRAP_TYPE_WARN) {
-			regs->nip += 4;
+		if (!user_mode(regs) && __report_bug(regs->nip, regs))
 			goto bail;
-		}
 		/* If usermode caused this, it's done something illegal and
 		 * gets a SIGILL slap on the wrist.  We call it an illegal
 		 * operand to distinguish from the instruction just being bad
-- 
2.1.0



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