[PATCH v2] arm64: arch_timer: avoid infinite recursion when ftrace is enabled

Ding Tianhong dingtianhong at huawei.com
Wed Aug 9 19:52:45 PDT 2017


On platforms with an arch timer erratum workaround, it's possible for
arch_timer_reg_read_stable() to recurse into itself when certain
tracing options are enabled, leading to stack overflows and related
problems.

For example, when PREEMPT_TRACER and FUNCTION_GRAPH_TRACER are
selected, it's possible to trigger this with:

$ mount -t debugfs nodev /sys/kernel/debug/
$ echo function_graph > /sys/kernel/debug/tracing/current_tracer

The problem is that in such cases, preempt_disable() instrumentation
attempts to acquire a timestamp via trace_clock(), resulting in a call
back to arch_timer_reg_read_stable(), and hence recursion.

This patch changes arch_timer_reg_read_stable() to use
preempt_{disable,enable}_notrace(), which avoids this.

This problem is similar to the fixed by upstream commit 96b3d28bf4
("sched/clock: Prevent tracing recursion in sched_clock_cpu()").

Fixes: 6acc71ccac71 ("arm64: arch_timer: Allows a CPU-specific erratum to only affect a subset of CPUs")
Signed-off-by: Ding Tianhong <dingtianhong at huawei.com>
Acked-by: Mark Rutland <mark.rutland at arm.com>
Acked-by: Marc Zyngier <marc.zyngier at arm.com>
---
 arch/arm64/include/asm/arch_timer.h | 4 ++--
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/arch/arm64/include/asm/arch_timer.h b/arch/arm64/include/asm/arch_timer.h
index 74d08e4..67bb7a4 100644
--- a/arch/arm64/include/asm/arch_timer.h
+++ b/arch/arm64/include/asm/arch_timer.h
@@ -65,13 +65,13 @@ struct arch_timer_erratum_workaround {
 	u64 _val;							\
 	if (needs_unstable_timer_counter_workaround()) {		\
 		const struct arch_timer_erratum_workaround *wa;		\
-		preempt_disable();					\
+		preempt_disable_notrace();				\
 		wa = __this_cpu_read(timer_unstable_counter_workaround); \
 		if (wa && wa->read_##reg)				\
 			_val = wa->read_##reg();			\
 		else							\
 			_val = read_sysreg(reg);			\
-		preempt_enable();					\
+		preempt_enable_notrace();				\
 	} else {							\
 		_val = read_sysreg(reg);				\
 	}								\
-- 
1.9.0





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