From: "Steven Rostedt (Google)" <rost...@goodmis.org>
As the ring buffer recording requires cmpxchg() to work, if the
architecture does not support cmpxchg in NMI, then do not do any recording
within an NMI.
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (Google) <rost...@goodmis.org>
---
kernel/trace/ring_buffer.c | 6 ++++++
1 file changed, 6 insertions(+)
diff --git a/kernel/trace/ring_buffer.c b/kernel/trace/ring_buffer.c
index 8f8887f025c9..caaffcdc6350 100644
--- a/kernel/trace/ring_buffer.c
+++ b/kernel/trace/ring_buffer.c
@@ -3719,6 +3719,12 @@ rb_reserve_next_event(struct trace_buffer *buffer,
int nr_loops = 0;
int add_ts_default;
+ /* ring buffer does cmpxchg, make sure it is safe in NMI context */
+ if (!IS_ENABLED(CONFIG_ARCH_HAVE_NMI_SAFE_CMPXCHG) &&
+ (unlikely(in_nmi()))) {
+ return NULL;
+ }
+
rb_start_commit(cpu_buffer);
/* The commit page can not change after this */
--
2.42.0
