debug: add notifier chain debugging
during some development we suspected a case where we left something in a notifier chain that was from a module that was unloaded already... and that sort of thing is rather hard to track down. This patch adds a very simple sanity check (which isn't all that expensive) to make sure the notifier we're about to call is actually from either the kernel itself of from a still-loaded module, avoiding a hard-to-chase-down crash. Signed-off-by: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@linux.intel.com> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
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@ -21,6 +21,10 @@ BLOCKING_NOTIFIER_HEAD(reboot_notifier_list);
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static int notifier_chain_register(struct notifier_block **nl,
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struct notifier_block *n)
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{
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if (!kernel_text_address((unsigned long)n->notifier_call)) {
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WARN(1, "Invalid notifier registered!");
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return 0;
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}
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while ((*nl) != NULL) {
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if (n->priority > (*nl)->priority)
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break;
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@ -34,6 +38,10 @@ static int notifier_chain_register(struct notifier_block **nl,
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static int notifier_chain_cond_register(struct notifier_block **nl,
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struct notifier_block *n)
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{
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if (!kernel_text_address((unsigned long)n->notifier_call)) {
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WARN(1, "Invalid notifier registered!");
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return 0;
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}
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while ((*nl) != NULL) {
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if ((*nl) == n)
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return 0;
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@ -82,6 +90,14 @@ static int __kprobes notifier_call_chain(struct notifier_block **nl,
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while (nb && nr_to_call) {
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next_nb = rcu_dereference(nb->next);
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#ifdef CONFIG_DEBUG_NOTIFIERS
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if (!kernel_text_address((unsigned long)nb->notifier_call)) {
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WARN(1, "Invalid notifier called!");
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nb = next_nb;
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continue;
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}
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#endif
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ret = nb->notifier_call(nb, val, v);
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if (nr_calls)
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@ -536,6 +536,16 @@ config DEBUG_SG
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If unsure, say N.
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config DEBUG_NOTIFIERS
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bool "Debug notifier call chains"
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depends on DEBUG_KERNEL
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help
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Enable this to turn on sanity checking for notifier call chains.
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This is most useful for kernel developers to make sure that
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modules properly unregister themselves from notifier chains.
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This is a relatively cheap check but if you care about maximum
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performance, say N.
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config FRAME_POINTER
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bool "Compile the kernel with frame pointers"
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depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && \
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