linux-kernel - [PATCH] bug: Set warn variable before calling WARN()

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Message-ID: <20160301110939.1b786f49@gandalf.local.home>
Date:	Tue, 1 Mar 2016 11:09:39 -0500
From:	Steven Rostedt <rostedt@...dmis.org>
To:	LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Cc:	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
	Peter Zijlstra <peterz@...radead.org>,
	Ingo Molnar <mingo@...nel.org>
Subject: [PATCH] bug: Set warn variable before calling WARN()

This has hit me a couple of times already. I would be debugging code
and the system would simply hang and then reboot. Finally, I found that
the problem was caused by WARN_ON_ONCE() and friends.

The macro WARN_ON_ONCE(condition) is defined as:

	static bool __section(.data.unlikely) __warned;
	int __ret_warn_once = !!(condition);

	if (unlikely(__ret_warn_once))
		if (WARN_ON(!__warned))
			__warned = true;

	unlikely(__ret_warn_once);

Which looks great and all. But what I have hit, is an issue when
WARN_ON() itself hits the same WARN_ON_ONCE() code. Because, the
variable __warned is not yet set. Then it too calls WARN_ON() and that
triggers the warning again. It keeps doing this until the stack is
overflowed and the system crashes.

By setting __warned first before calling WARN_ON() makes the original
WARN_ON_ONCE() really only warn once, and not an infinite amount of
times if the WARN_ON() also triggers the warning.

Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@...dmis.org>
---
diff --git a/include/asm-generic/bug.h b/include/asm-generic/bug.h
index 630dd2372238..fdf6fa078422 100644
--- a/include/asm-generic/bug.h
+++ b/include/asm-generic/bug.h
@@ -110,9 +110,10 @@ extern void warn_slowpath_null(const char *file, const int line);
 	static bool __section(.data.unlikely) __warned;		\
 	int __ret_warn_once = !!(condition);			\
 								\
-	if (unlikely(__ret_warn_once))				\
-		if (WARN_ON(!__warned)) 			\
-			__warned = true;			\
+	if (unlikely(__ret_warn_once && !__warned)) {		\
+		__warned = true;				\
+		WARN_ON(1);					\
+	}							\
 	unlikely(__ret_warn_once);				\
 })
 
@@ -120,9 +121,10 @@ extern void warn_slowpath_null(const char *file, const int line);
 	static bool __section(.data.unlikely) __warned;		\
 	int __ret_warn_once = !!(condition);			\
 								\
-	if (unlikely(__ret_warn_once))				\
-		if (WARN(!__warned, format)) 			\
-			__warned = true;			\
+	if (unlikely(__ret_warn_once && !__warned)) {		\
+		__warned = true;				\
+		WARN(1, format);				\
+	}							\
 	unlikely(__ret_warn_once);				\
 })
 
@@ -130,9 +132,10 @@ extern void warn_slowpath_null(const char *file, const int line);
 	static bool __section(.data.unlikely) __warned;		\
 	int __ret_warn_once = !!(condition);			\
 								\
-	if (unlikely(__ret_warn_once))				\
-		if (WARN_TAINT(!__warned, taint, format))	\
-			__warned = true;			\
+	if (unlikely(__ret_warn_once && !__warned)) {		\
+		__warned = true;				\
+		WARN_TAINT(1, taint, format);			\
+	}							\
 	unlikely(__ret_warn_once);				\
 })