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From: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
To: Tetsuo Handa <penguin-kernel@i-love.sakura.ne.jp>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>,
	Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com>,
	Andrew Lutomirski <luto@kernel.org>,
	"the arch/x86 maintainers" <x86@kernel.org>,
	Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
	Brian Gerst <brgerst@gmail.com>, Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de>,
	Jann Horn <jann@thejh.net>, Linux API <linux-api@vger.kernel.org>,
	Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>,
	Tycho Andersen <tycho.andersen@canonical.com>
Subject: Re: [4.9-rc3] BUG: unable to handle kernel paging request at ffffc900144dfc60
Date: Wed, 2 Nov 2016 08:54:43 -0600	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <CA+55aFwAe6EL5Epo1WopkJVfpf7f+ZDnHjJuNR8=qCv+Trr8qw@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <201611021950.FEJ34368.HFFJOOMLtQOVSF@I-love.SAKURA.ne.jp>

On Wed, Nov 2, 2016 at 4:50 AM, Tetsuo Handa
<penguin-kernel@i-love.sakura.ne.jp> wrote:
>>
>> So I _think_ the fix is to just remove this. Perhaps something like
>> the attached? Adding scheduler people since this is in their code..
>
> That is not sufficient, for another Oops occurs inside stack_not_used().
> Since I don't want to break stack_not_used(), can we tolerate nested
> try_get_task_stack() usage and protect the whole sched_show_task()?

Sure, looks good to me.

But as Andy says, we should probably apply my patch too, just to get
rid of the useless hex printk and the ugly ifdeffery.

PeterZ/Ingo?

                Linus

  parent reply	other threads:[~2016-11-02 14:54 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 25+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2016-09-30 17:58 [PATCH 0/3] ABI CHANGE!!! Remove questionable remote SP reads Andy Lutomirski
2016-09-30 17:58 ` [PATCH 1/3] proc: Stop reporting eip and esp in /proc/PID/stat Andy Lutomirski
2016-09-30 18:56   ` Jann Horn
2016-10-01  2:01     ` Andy Lutomirski
2016-10-01  4:22       ` Linus Torvalds
2016-10-01 10:37       ` Jann Horn
2016-10-14 18:25         ` Andy Lutomirski
2016-10-14 20:01           ` Tycho Andersen
2016-10-20 11:13   ` [tip:mm/urgent] fs/proc: " tip-bot for Andy Lutomirski
2016-11-01 14:36   ` [4.9-rc3] BUG: unable to handle kernel paging request at ffffc900144dfc60 Tetsuo Handa
2016-11-01 23:47     ` Linus Torvalds
2016-11-02 10:50       ` Tetsuo Handa
2016-11-02 14:05         ` Andy Lutomirski
2016-11-02 14:54         ` Linus Torvalds [this message]
2016-11-03  6:32           ` Ingo Molnar
2016-11-03  7:09         ` [tip:sched/urgent] sched/core: Fix oops in sched_show_task() tip-bot for Tetsuo Handa
2016-11-03  7:10       ` [tip:sched/urgent] sched/core: Remove pointless printout " tip-bot for Linus Torvalds
2016-09-30 17:58 ` [PATCH 2/3] proc: Stop trying to report thread stacks Andy Lutomirski
2016-10-20 11:13   ` [tip:mm/urgent] fs/proc: " tip-bot for Andy Lutomirski
2016-09-30 17:58 ` [PATCH 3/3] mm: Change vm_is_stack_for_task() to vm_is_stack_for_current() Andy Lutomirski
2016-10-20 11:14   ` [tip:mm/urgent] " tip-bot for Andy Lutomirski
2016-10-03 23:08 ` [PATCH 0/3] ABI CHANGE!!! Remove questionable remote SP reads Andy Lutomirski
2016-10-03 23:17   ` Linus Torvalds
2016-10-04  7:06     ` Raymond Jennings
2016-10-14 18:26     ` Andy Lutomirski

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