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Date:	Tue, 7 Jul 2015 03:50:27 -0700
From:	tip-bot for Andy Lutomirski <tipbot@...or.com>
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Subject: [tip:x86/asm] notifiers, RCU:
  Assert that RCU is watching in notify_die()

Commit-ID:  e727c7d7a11e109849582e9165d54b254eb181d7
Gitweb:     http://git.kernel.org/tip/e727c7d7a11e109849582e9165d54b254eb181d7
Author:     Andy Lutomirski <luto@...nel.org>
AuthorDate: Fri, 3 Jul 2015 12:44:22 -0700
Committer:  Ingo Molnar <mingo@...nel.org>
CommitDate: Tue, 7 Jul 2015 10:59:04 +0200

notifiers, RCU: Assert that RCU is watching in notify_die()

Low-level arch entries often call notify_die(), and it's easy for
arch code to fail to exit an RCU quiescent state first.  Assert
that we're not quiescent in notify_die().

Signed-off-by: Andy Lutomirski <luto@...nel.org>
Cc: Andy Lutomirski <luto@...capital.net>
Cc: Borislav Petkov <bp@...en8.de>
Cc: Brian Gerst <brgerst@...il.com>
Cc: Denys Vlasenko <dvlasenk@...hat.com>
Cc: Denys Vlasenko <vda.linux@...glemail.com>
Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@...il.com>
Cc: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@...or.com>
Cc: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@...ux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Kees Cook <keescook@...omium.org>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>
Cc: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@...hat.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@...radead.org>
Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@...hat.com>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>
Cc: paulmck@...ux.vnet.ibm.com
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1f5fe6c23d5b432a23267102f2d72b787d80fdd8.1435952415.git.luto@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@...nel.org>
---
 kernel/notifier.c | 2 ++
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+)

diff --git a/kernel/notifier.c b/kernel/notifier.c
index ae9fc7c..980e433 100644
--- a/kernel/notifier.c
+++ b/kernel/notifier.c
@@ -544,6 +544,8 @@ int notrace notify_die(enum die_val val, const char *str,
 		.signr	= sig,
 
 	};
+	rcu_lockdep_assert(rcu_is_watching(),
+			   "notify_die called but RCU thinks we're quiescent");
 	return atomic_notifier_call_chain(&die_chain, val, &args);
 }
 NOKPROBE_SYMBOL(notify_die);
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