From: "H. Peter Anvin" Early microcode loading runs C code before paging is enabled on 32 bits. Since ftrace puts a hook into every function, that hook needs to be safe to execute in the pre-paging environment. This is currently true for dynamic ftrace but not for static ftrace. Static ftrace is obsolescent and assumed to not be performance-critical, so we can simply test that the stack pointer falls within the valid range of kernel addresses. Reported-by: Jan Kiszka Tested-by: Jan Kiszka Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt --- arch/x86/kernel/entry_32.S | 3 +++ 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+) diff --git a/arch/x86/kernel/entry_32.S b/arch/x86/kernel/entry_32.S index 2cfbc3a..f0dcb0c 100644 --- a/arch/x86/kernel/entry_32.S +++ b/arch/x86/kernel/entry_32.S @@ -1176,6 +1176,9 @@ ftrace_restore_flags: #else /* ! CONFIG_DYNAMIC_FTRACE */ ENTRY(mcount) + cmpl $__PAGE_OFFSET, %esp + jb ftrace_stub /* Paging not enabled yet? */ + cmpl $0, function_trace_stop jne ftrace_stub -- 1.7.10.4 -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/