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The first thing that the ftrace function callback helper functions should do
is to check for recursion. Peter Zijlstra found that when
"rcu_is_watching()" had its notrace removed, it caused perf function tracing
to crash. This is because the call of rcu_is_watching() is tested before
function recursion is checked and and if it is traced, it will cause an
infinite recursion loop.
rcu_is_watching() should still stay notrace, but to prevent this should
never had crashed in the first place. The recursion prevention must be the
first thing done in callback functions.
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20200929112541.GM2628@hirez.programming.kicks-ass.net
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Cc: Paul McKenney <paulmck@kernel.org>
Fixes: c68c0fa293 ("ftrace: Have ftrace_ops_get_func() handle RCU and PER_CPU flags too")
Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org>
Reported-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (VMware) <rostedt@goodmis.org>
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