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authorIngo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>2008-01-25 21:07:58 +0100
committerIngo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>2008-01-25 21:07:58 +0100
commit32a76006683f7b28ae3cc491da37716e002f198e (patch)
treeab4bf487f675ab1a19b3ad0eac78a0e48f5144e9 /kernel
parentb47711bfbcd4eb77ca61ef0162487b20e023ae55 (diff)
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printk: make printk more robust by not allowing recursion
make printk more robust by allowing recursion only if there's a crash going on. Also add recursion detection. I've tested it with an artificially injected printk recursion - instead of a lockup or spontaneous reboot or other crash, the output was a well controlled: [ 41.057335] SysRq : <2>BUG: recent printk recursion! [ 41.057335] loglevel0-8 reBoot Crashdump show-all-locks(D) tErm Full kIll saK showMem Nice powerOff showPc show-all-timers(Q) unRaw Sync showTasks Unmount shoW-blocked-tasks also do all this printk-debug logic with irqs disabled. Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Reviewed-by: Nick Piggin <npiggin@suse.de>
Diffstat (limited to 'kernel')
-rw-r--r--kernel/printk.c48
1 files changed, 38 insertions, 10 deletions
diff --git a/kernel/printk.c b/kernel/printk.c
index 89011bf8c106..e6c1f36d8c3a 100644
--- a/kernel/printk.c
+++ b/kernel/printk.c
@@ -628,30 +628,57 @@ asmlinkage int printk(const char *fmt, ...)
/* cpu currently holding logbuf_lock */
static volatile unsigned int printk_cpu = UINT_MAX;
+const char printk_recursion_bug_msg [] =
+ KERN_CRIT "BUG: recent printk recursion!\n";
+static int printk_recursion_bug;
+
asmlinkage int vprintk(const char *fmt, va_list args)
{
+ static int log_level_unknown = 1;
+ static char printk_buf[1024];
+
unsigned long flags;
- int printed_len;
+ int printed_len = 0;
+ int this_cpu;
char *p;
- static char printk_buf[1024];
- static int log_level_unknown = 1;
boot_delay_msec();
preempt_disable();
- if (unlikely(oops_in_progress) && printk_cpu == smp_processor_id())
- /* If a crash is occurring during printk() on this CPU,
- * make sure we can't deadlock */
- zap_locks();
-
/* This stops the holder of console_sem just where we want him */
raw_local_irq_save(flags);
+ this_cpu = smp_processor_id();
+
+ /*
+ * Ouch, printk recursed into itself!
+ */
+ if (unlikely(printk_cpu == this_cpu)) {
+ /*
+ * If a crash is occurring during printk() on this CPU,
+ * then try to get the crash message out but make sure
+ * we can't deadlock. Otherwise just return to avoid the
+ * recursion and return - but flag the recursion so that
+ * it can be printed at the next appropriate moment:
+ */
+ if (!oops_in_progress) {
+ printk_recursion_bug = 1;
+ goto out_restore_irqs;
+ }
+ zap_locks();
+ }
+
lockdep_off();
spin_lock(&logbuf_lock);
- printk_cpu = smp_processor_id();
+ printk_cpu = this_cpu;
+ if (printk_recursion_bug) {
+ printk_recursion_bug = 0;
+ strcpy(printk_buf, printk_recursion_bug_msg);
+ printed_len = sizeof(printk_recursion_bug_msg);
+ }
/* Emit the output into the temporary buffer */
- printed_len = vscnprintf(printk_buf, sizeof(printk_buf), fmt, args);
+ printed_len += vscnprintf(printk_buf + printed_len,
+ sizeof(printk_buf), fmt, args);
/*
* Copy the output into log_buf. If the caller didn't provide
@@ -744,6 +771,7 @@ asmlinkage int vprintk(const char *fmt, va_list args)
printk_cpu = UINT_MAX;
spin_unlock(&logbuf_lock);
lockdep_on();
+out_restore_irqs:
raw_local_irq_restore(flags);
}