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Message-ID: <5490B158.4060005@redhat.com>
Date: Tue, 16 Dec 2014 16:25:28 -0600
From: Eric Sandeen <sandeen@...hat.com>
To: kernel list <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
Ingo Molnar <mingo@...hat.com>,
Peter Zijlstra <peterz@...radead.org>
Subject: [PATCH] check for stack overflow in ___might_sleep
Sometimes a "BUG: sleeping function called from invalid context"
message is not indicative of locking problems, but is the result
of a stack overflow corrupting the thread info.
Witness http://oss.sgi.com/archives/xfs/2014-02/msg00325.html
for example, which took a few go-rounds to sort out.
If we're printing the warning, things are wonky already, and
it'd be informative to check for the stack end corruption at this
point, too.
Signed-off-by: Eric Sandeen <sandeen@...hat.com>
---
diff --git a/kernel/sched/core.c b/kernel/sched/core.c
index b5797b7..4ef726c 100644
--- a/kernel/sched/core.c
+++ b/kernel/sched/core.c
@@ -7328,6 +7328,9 @@ void ___might_sleep(const char *file, int line, int preempt_offset)
in_atomic(), irqs_disabled(),
current->pid, current->comm);
+ if (task_stack_end_corrupted(current))
+ printk(KERN_EMERG "Thread overran stack, or stack corrupted\n");
+
debug_show_held_locks(current);
if (irqs_disabled())
print_irqtrace_events(current);
--
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