Merge tag 'renesas-cleanup-for-v3.19' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel...

[cascardo/linux.git] / kernel / kprobes.c

diff --git a/kernel/kprobes.c b/kernel/kprobes.c
index 734e9a7..3995f54 100644 (file)
--- a/kernel/kprobes.c
+++ b/kernel/kprobes.c
@@ -1778,7 +1778,18 @@ static int pre_handler_kretprobe(struct kprobe *p, struct pt_regs *regs)
        unsigned long hash, flags = 0;
        struct kretprobe_instance *ri;
 
-       /*TODO: consider to only swap the RA after the last pre_handler fired */
+       /*
+        * To avoid deadlocks, prohibit return probing in NMI contexts,
+        * just skip the probe and increase the (inexact) 'nmissed'
+        * statistical counter, so that the user is informed that
+        * something happened:
+        */
+       if (unlikely(in_nmi())) {
+               rp->nmissed++;
+               return 0;
+       }
+
+       /* TODO: consider to only swap the RA after the last pre_handler fired */
        hash = hash_ptr(current, KPROBE_HASH_BITS);
        raw_spin_lock_irqsave(&rp->lock, flags);
        if (!hlist_empty(&rp->free_instances)) {