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SubjectRe: [GIT PULL] updates for oprofile
Ingo, et al., 

Regarding today's pulled request, containing:

commit bc078e4eab65f11bbaeed380593ab8151b30d703
Author: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidef...@de.ibm.com>
Date: Tue Mar 2 16:01:10 2010 +0100

oprofile: convert oprofile from timer_hook to hrtimer


Information is a touch scant, as I'm doing the investigation as I
write, but I believe that that patch can cause ooops regressions
via a null-pointer dereference in oprofile_add_sample().

That function declares:
"""
/**
* Add a sample. This may be called from any context.
*/
void oprofile_add_sample(struct pt_regs * const regs, unsigned long event);
"""

And begins:
"""
void oprofile_add_sample(struct pt_regs * const regs, unsigned long event)
{
int is_kernel = !user_mode(regs);
"""

Where on at least two major architectures (Arm, x86), user_mode()
unconditionally dereferences its parameter.

Now oprofile_add_sample() is called from this context:
"""
static enum hrtimer_restart oprofile_hrtimer_notify(struct hrtimer *hrtimer)
{
oprofile_add_sample(get_irq_regs(), 0);
"""

And get_irq_regs() is NULL when not in an IRQ context.

Bang.

An example of this kind of thing kicking in has already been encountered
last year:
http://www.mail-archive.com/linux-omap@vger.kernel.org/msg14069.html
(That thread got a little side-tracked onto OMAP specifics, but the
original report is topical.)

Now would be a very good time for the "many eyes" principle to kick in.

I'm now looking into workarounds, but nothing that I'd necessarily
want to submit as a real fix.

Phil
cc:'d replies appreciated


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