linux/arch
Steven Rostedt 42181186ad x86: Add counter when debug stack is used with interrupts enabled
Mathieu Desnoyers pointed out a case that can cause issues with
NMIs running on the debug stack:

  int3 -> interrupt -> NMI -> int3

Because the interrupt changes the stack, the NMI will not see that
it preempted the debug stack. Looking deeper at this case,
interrupts only happen when the int3 is from userspace or in
an a location in the exception table (fixup).

  userspace -> int3 -> interurpt -> NMI -> int3

All other int3s that happen in the kernel should be processed
without ever enabling interrupts, as the do_trap() call will
panic the kernel if it is called to process any other location
within the kernel.

Adding a counter around the sections that enable interrupts while
using the debug stack allows the NMI to also check that case.
If the NMI sees that it either interrupted a task using the debug
stack or the debug counter is non-zero, then it will have to
change the IDT table to make the int3 not change stacks (which will
corrupt the stack if it does).

Note, I had to move the debug_usage functions out of processor.h
and into debugreg.h because of the static inlined functions to
inc and dec the debug_usage counter. __get_cpu_var() requires
smp.h which includes processor.h, and would fail to build.

Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1323976535.23971.112.camel@gandalf.stny.rr.com

Reported-by: Mathieu Desnoyers <mathieu.desnoyers@efficios.com>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: Paul Turner <pjt@google.com>
Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
2011-12-21 15:38:56 -05:00
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alpha Merge branch 'modsplit-Oct31_2011' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/paulg/linux 2011-11-06 19:44:47 -08:00
arm Merge branch 'iommu/fixes' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/joro/iommu 2011-12-09 08:08:14 -08:00
avr32 Merge git://git.infradead.org/mtd-2.6 2011-11-07 09:11:16 -08:00
blackfin blackfin: Fixup export.h includes 2011-11-14 17:15:23 +08:00
cris net: Fix references to deleted NET_ETHERNET Kconfig setting. 2011-11-09 19:26:53 -05:00
frv kgdb: follow rename pack_hex_byte() to hex_byte_pack() 2011-10-31 17:30:56 -07:00
h8300 Merge branch 'gpio/next' of git://git.secretlab.ca/git/linux-2.6 2011-10-29 07:27:45 -07:00
hexagon Hexagon: Add basic stacktrace functionality for Hexagon architecture. 2011-11-01 07:34:21 -07:00
ia64 Merge branch 'upstream/xen-settime' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jeremy/xen 2011-11-06 20:15:05 -08:00
m32r Merge branch 'trivial' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/mmarek/kbuild 2011-11-06 18:54:53 -08:00
m68k m68k: Wire up process_vm_{read,write}v 2011-12-06 20:37:58 +01:00
microblaze microblaze: bury asm/namei.h 2011-11-21 16:48:28 -05:00
mips Merge branch 'perf-urgent-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip 2011-12-05 16:54:00 -08:00
mn10300 kgdb: follow rename pack_hex_byte() to hex_byte_pack() 2011-10-31 17:30:56 -07:00
openrisc Merge branch 'trivial' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/mmarek/kbuild 2011-11-06 18:54:53 -08:00
parisc parisc: Add export.h to files needing EXPORT_SYMBOL/THIS_MODULE 2011-10-31 19:31:00 -04:00
powerpc powerpc/44x: Add mtd ndfc to the ppx44x defconfig 2011-11-25 10:06:00 +11:00
s390 [S390] remove reset of system call restart on psw changes 2011-12-01 13:32:17 +01:00
score score: drop unused Kconfig symbols 2011-10-31 23:39:51 +01:00
sh Merge branches 'sh/pm-runtime' and 'common/clkfwk' into sh-fixes-for-linus 2011-11-11 16:16:25 +09:00
sparc sparc64: Patch sun4v code sequences properly on module load. 2011-11-17 22:44:58 -08:00
tile arch/tile: use new generic {enable,disable}_percpu_irq() routines 2011-12-03 15:31:49 -05:00
um Merge branch 'for-linus' of git://github.com/richardweinberger/linux 2011-11-02 09:45:39 -07:00
unicore32 unicore32, exec: remove redundant set_fs(USER_DS) 2011-11-16 10:50:09 +08:00
x86 x86: Add counter when debug stack is used with interrupts enabled 2011-12-21 15:38:56 -05:00
xtensa Merge branch 'timers-core-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip 2011-10-26 17:15:03 +02:00
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