On Tue, 8 Feb 2022 at 13:51, Tiezhu Yang <yangtiezhu@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> In the current code, the following three places need to unset
> panic_on_warn before calling panic() to avoid recursive panics:
>
> kernel/kcsan/report.c: print_report()
> kernel/sched/core.c: __schedule_bug()
> mm/kfence/report.c: kfence_report_error()
>
> In order to avoid copy-pasting "panic_on_warn = 0" all over the
> places, it is better to move it inside panic() and then remove
> it from the other places.
>
> Signed-off-by: Tiezhu Yang <yangtiezhu@xxxxxxxxxxx>
Reviewed-by: Marco Elver <elver@xxxxxxxxxx>
> ---
> kernel/panic.c | 20 +++++++++++---------
> 1 file changed, 11 insertions(+), 9 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/kernel/panic.c b/kernel/panic.c
> index 55b50e0..95ba825 100644
> --- a/kernel/panic.c
> +++ b/kernel/panic.c
> @@ -185,6 +185,16 @@ void panic(const char *fmt, ...)
> int old_cpu, this_cpu;
> bool _crash_kexec_post_notifiers = crash_kexec_post_notifiers;
>
> + if (panic_on_warn) {
> + /*
> + * This thread may hit another WARN() in the panic path.
Alas, this may actually fix another problem: doing a panic() not from
a WARN(), but then hitting a WARN() along in the panic path. So
"another WARN" is irrelevant, just "a WARN" would be enough to break
things.
> + * Resetting this prevents additional WARN() from panicking the
> + * system on this thread. Other threads are blocked by the
> + * panic_mutex in panic().
> + */
> + panic_on_warn = 0;
> + }
> +
> /*
> * Disable local interrupts. This will prevent panic_smp_self_stop
> * from deadlocking the first cpu that invokes the panic, since
> @@ -576,16 +586,8 @@ void __warn(const char *file, int line, void *caller, unsigned taint,
> if (regs)
> show_regs(regs);
>
> - if (panic_on_warn) {
> - /*
> - * This thread may hit another WARN() in the panic path.
> - * Resetting this prevents additional WARN() from panicking the
> - * system on this thread. Other threads are blocked by the
> - * panic_mutex in panic().
> - */
> - panic_on_warn = 0;
> + if (panic_on_warn)
> panic("panic_on_warn set ...\n");
> - }
>
> if (!regs)
> dump_stack();
> --
> 2.1.0
>
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