[PATCH 2/2] tracing: Do not allow stack_tracer to record stack in NMI

[Steven Rostedt]

From: "Steven Rostedt (Red Hat)" <rostedt@xxxxxxxxxxx>

The code in stack tracer should not be executed within an NMI as it grabs
spinlocks and stack tracing an NMI gives the possibility of causing a
deadlock. Although this is safe on x86_64, because it does not perform stack
traces when the task struct stack is not in use (interrupts and NMIs), it
may be an issue for NMIs on i386 and other archs that use the same stack as
the NMI.

Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@xxxxxxxxxxx>
---
 kernel/trace/trace_stack.c | 4 ++++
 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+)

diff --git a/kernel/trace/trace_stack.c b/kernel/trace/trace_stack.c
index 5f29402bff0f..8abf1ba18085 100644
--- a/kernel/trace/trace_stack.c
+++ b/kernel/trace/trace_stack.c
@@ -85,6 +85,10 @@ check_stack(unsigned long ip, unsigned long *stack)
 	if (!object_is_on_stack(stack))
 		return;
 
+	/* Can't do this from NMI context (can cause deadlocks) */
+	if (in_nmi())
+		return;
+
 	local_irq_save(flags);
 	arch_spin_lock(&max_stack_lock);
 
-- 
2.6.1


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