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authorArnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>2014-09-09 16:49:28 +0200
committerArnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>2014-09-09 16:49:28 +0200
commit87e9d8fd26c782623b79f2968431179f29b339f2 (patch)
tree45e2cf70f4609ee82859d28dd8a34effc750a6c5 /kernel/kprobes.c
parentfacdb3dd378e81b8516a8faa061e0be56d2ae7be (diff)
parent75a41826e2c5dc1dc0fd5195fc29b031c97337af (diff)
Merge tag 'socfpga_update_for_v3.18' of git://git.rocketboards.org/linux-socfpga-next into next/dt
Pull "arm: dts: Add Altera SDRAM EDAC bindings & devicetree entries" From Dinh Nguyen: 5 of the 6 patches are DTS updates and the 1 patch is updating the MAINTAINERS entry with my new email address. Signed-off-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de> * tag 'socfpga_update_for_v3.18' of git://git.rocketboards.org/linux-socfpga-next: arm: dts: Add Altera SDRAM EDAC bindings & devicetree entries. ARM: dts: socfpga: memreserve first 4KB for future system use ARM: dts: socfpga: Add SD card detect ARM: dts: socfpga: remove extra alias in the ArriaV devkit ARM: dts: socfpga: unuse the slot-node and deprecate the supports-highspeed for dw-mmc MAINTAINERS: update entries for ARM/SOCFPGA platform
Diffstat (limited to 'kernel/kprobes.c')
-rw-r--r--kernel/kprobes.c13
1 files changed, 12 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/kernel/kprobes.c b/kernel/kprobes.c
index 734e9a7d280b..3995f546d0f3 100644
--- a/kernel/kprobes.c
+++ b/kernel/kprobes.c
@@ -1778,7 +1778,18 @@ static int pre_handler_kretprobe(struct kprobe *p, struct pt_regs *regs)
unsigned long hash, flags = 0;
struct kretprobe_instance *ri;
- /*TODO: consider to only swap the RA after the last pre_handler fired */
+ /*
+ * To avoid deadlocks, prohibit return probing in NMI contexts,
+ * just skip the probe and increase the (inexact) 'nmissed'
+ * statistical counter, so that the user is informed that
+ * something happened:
+ */
+ if (unlikely(in_nmi())) {
+ rp->nmissed++;
+ return 0;
+ }
+
+ /* TODO: consider to only swap the RA after the last pre_handler fired */
hash = hash_ptr(current, KPROBE_HASH_BITS);
raw_spin_lock_irqsave(&rp->lock, flags);
if (!hlist_empty(&rp->free_instances)) {