Commit dfbf2897 authored by Steven Rostedt's avatar Steven Rostedt Committed by Linus Torvalds

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: default avatarSteven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Acked-by: default avatarPeter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org>
Signed-off-by: default avatarAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: default avatarLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
parent c60f1692
......@@ -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)) \
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)) \
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)) \
if (unlikely(__ret_warn_once && !__warned)) { \
__warned = true; \
WARN_TAINT(1, taint, format); \
} \
unlikely(__ret_warn_once); \
})
......
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