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The in_nmi() check in pre_handler_kretprobe() is meant to avoid
recursion, and blindly assumes that anything NMI is recursive.
However, since commit:
9b38cc704e ("kretprobe: Prevent triggering kretprobe from within kprobe_flush_task")
there is a better way to detect and avoid actual recursion.
By setting a dummy kprobe, any actual exceptions will terminate early
(by trying to handle the dummy kprobe), and recursion will not happen.
Employ this to avoid the kretprobe_table_lock() recursion, replacing
the over-eager in_nmi() check.
Signed-off-by: Masami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/159870615628.1229682.6087311596892125907.stgit@devnote2
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