Messages in this thread Patch in this message | | | Subject | [PATCH 2/2] i386: Disallow kprobes on NMI handlers | From | Fernando Luis Vázquez Cao <> | Date | Thu, 10 Aug 2006 19:36:41 +0900 |
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A kprobe executes IRET early and that could cause NMI recursion and stack corruption.
Note: This problem was originally identified by Andi Kleen. This patch adds fixes not included in his original patch.
Signed-off-by: Fernando Vazquez <fernando@intellilink.co.jp> ---
diff -urNp linux-2.6.18-rc4-orig/arch/i386/kernel/mca.c linux-2.6.18-rc4/arch/i386/kernel/mca.c --- linux-2.6.18-rc4-orig/arch/i386/kernel/mca.c 2006-08-10 17:24:15.000000000 +0900 +++ linux-2.6.18-rc4/arch/i386/kernel/mca.c 2006-08-10 19:34:37.000000000 +0900 @@ -414,7 +414,8 @@ subsys_initcall(mca_init); /*--------------------------------------------------------------------*/ -static void mca_handle_nmi_device(struct mca_device *mca_dev, int check_flag) +static __kprobes void +mca_handle_nmi_device(struct mca_device *mca_dev, int check_flag) { int slot = mca_dev->slot; @@ -444,7 +445,7 @@ static void mca_handle_nmi_device(struct /*--------------------------------------------------------------------*/ -static int mca_handle_nmi_callback(struct device *dev, void *data) +static int __kprobes mca_handle_nmi_callback(struct device *dev, void *data) { struct mca_device *mca_dev = to_mca_device(dev); unsigned char pos5; @@ -462,7 +463,7 @@ static int mca_handle_nmi_callback(struc return 0; } -void mca_handle_nmi(void) +void __kprobes mca_handle_nmi(void) { /* First try - scan the various adapters and see if a specific * adapter was responsible for the error.
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