This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled
panic: fix stack dump print on direct call to panic()
to the 3.3-stable tree which can be found at:
http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/stable/stable-queue.git;a=summary
The filename of the patch is:
panic-fix-stack-dump-print-on-direct-call-to-panic.patch
and it can be found in the queue-3.3 subdirectory.
If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree,
please let <[email protected]> know about it.
>From 026ee1f66aaa7f01b617a0ba89ac4b531f9603f1 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Jason Wessel <[email protected]>
Date: Thu, 12 Apr 2012 12:49:17 -0700
Subject: panic: fix stack dump print on direct call to panic()
From: Jason Wessel <[email protected]>
commit 026ee1f66aaa7f01b617a0ba89ac4b531f9603f1 upstream.
Commit 6e6f0a1f0fa6 ("panic: don't print redundant backtraces on oops")
causes a regression where no stack trace will be printed at all for the
case where kernel code calls panic() directly while not processing an
oops, and of course there are 100's of instances of this type of call.
The original commit executed the check (!oops_in_progress), but this will
always be false because just before the dump_stack() there is a call to
bust_spinlocks(1), which does the following:
void __attribute__((weak)) bust_spinlocks(int yes)
{
if (yes) {
++oops_in_progress;
The proper way to resolve the problem that original commit tried to
solve is to avoid printing a stack dump from panic() when the either of
the following conditions is true:
1) TAINT_DIE has been set (this is done by oops_end())
This indicates and oops has already been printed.
2) oops_in_progress > 1
This guards against the rare case where panic() is invoked
a second time, or in between oops_begin() and oops_end()
Signed-off-by: Jason Wessel <[email protected]>
Cc: Andi Kleen <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <[email protected]>
---
kernel/panic.c | 2 +-
1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
--- a/kernel/panic.c
+++ b/kernel/panic.c
@@ -97,7 +97,7 @@ void panic(const char *fmt, ...)
/*
* Avoid nested stack-dumping if a panic occurs during oops processing
*/
- if (!oops_in_progress)
+ if (!test_taint(TAINT_DIE) && oops_in_progress <= 1)
dump_stack();
#endif
Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from
[email protected] are
queue-3.3/panic-fix-stack-dump-print-on-direct-call-to-panic.patch
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