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SubjectRe: [PATCH 5/5] tracing: Do not record user stack trace from NMI context
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On Sun, 2010-03-14 at 11:27 +0100, Frederic Weisbecker wrote:

>
> Wow, that's a race :)
>
> In perf this is dealt with a special copy_from_user_nmi()
> (see in arch/x86/kernel/cpu/perf_event.c)
>
> May be save_stack_trace_user() should use that instead
> of a __copy_from_user_inatomic() based thing, just to
> cover such NMI corner race case.
>

Yeah, we should move the __copy_from_user_nmi() out of the perf code and
into the normal uaccess code. Then we could do as you suggest, and have
the stack code do:

if (in_nmi())
__copy_from_user_nmi();
else
__copy_from_user_inatomic();

Or maybe it would be best to have the __copy_from_user_inatomic() handle
it.

-- Steve





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