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From: Josh Poimboeuf <jpoimboe@redhat.com>
To: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>
Cc: LKML <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
	Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>,
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Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 2/2] x86, refcount: Implement fast refcount overflow protection
Date: Mon, 1 May 2017 17:45:42 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20170501224542.bbfhs7c4x2wibomz@treble> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAGXu5jKoeB7tbxfcLC03tFnjYKYt+ZHtk_jruQJ887dPHJ-Gag@mail.gmail.com>

On Mon, May 01, 2017 at 10:36:59AM -0700, Kees Cook wrote:
> >> +#ifdef CONFIG_FAST_REFCOUNT
> >> +static DEFINE_RATELIMIT_STATE(refcount_ratelimit, 15 * HZ, 3);
> >> +
> >> +void refcount_error_report(struct pt_regs *regs, const char *kind)
> >> +{
> >> +     do_send_sig_info(SIGKILL, SEND_SIG_FORCED, current, true);
> >> +
> >> +     if (!__ratelimit(&refcount_ratelimit))
> >> +             return;
> >> +
> >> +     pr_emerg("%s detected in: %s:%d, uid/euid: %u/%u\n",
> >> +             kind ? kind : "refcount error",
> >> +             current->comm, task_pid_nr(current),
> >> +             from_kuid_munged(&init_user_ns, current_uid()),
> >> +             from_kuid_munged(&init_user_ns, current_euid()));
> >> +     print_symbol(KERN_EMERG "refcount error occurred at: %s\n",
> >> +             instruction_pointer(regs));
> >> +     preempt_disable();
> >> +     show_regs(regs);
> >> +     preempt_enable();
> >> +}
> >
> > Why is preemption disabled before calling show_regs()?
> 
> I thought it was to avoid interleaving show_regs() output (I can't
> think of a way regs would be externally modified).

This code is running from interrupt context, so preemption shouldn't be
an issue unless I'm missing something.

-- 
Josh

  reply	other threads:[~2017-05-01 22:45 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 15+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2017-04-25 22:56 [PATCH v2 0/2] x86, refcount: Implement fast refcount overflow Kees Cook
2017-04-25 22:56 ` [PATCH v2 1/2] x86, asm: Add suffix macro for GEN_*_RMWcc() Kees Cook
2017-04-25 22:56 ` [PATCH v2 2/2] x86, refcount: Implement fast refcount overflow protection Kees Cook
2017-04-26  0:25   ` Jann Horn
2017-04-26  3:52     ` Kees Cook
2017-04-27  1:31   ` kbuild test robot
2017-04-27 20:22     ` Kees Cook
2017-05-01 15:54       ` Josh Poimboeuf
2017-05-01 17:28         ` Kees Cook
2017-05-01 22:33           ` Josh Poimboeuf
2017-05-01 16:30   ` Josh Poimboeuf
2017-05-01 17:36     ` Kees Cook
2017-05-01 22:45       ` Josh Poimboeuf [this message]
2017-04-26  2:01 ` [PATCH v2 0/2] x86, refcount: Implement fast refcount overflow PaX Team
2017-04-26  3:59   ` Kees Cook

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