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Diffstat (limited to 'kernel')
| -rw-r--r-- | kernel/extable.c | 16 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | kernel/notifier.c | 8 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | kernel/softlockup.c | 2 |
3 files changed, 25 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/kernel/extable.c b/kernel/extable.c index a26cb2e1702..adf0cc9c02d 100644 --- a/kernel/extable.c +++ b/kernel/extable.c @@ -66,3 +66,19 @@ int kernel_text_address(unsigned long addr) return 1; return module_text_address(addr) != NULL; } + +/* + * On some architectures (PPC64, IA64) function pointers + * are actually only tokens to some data that then holds the + * real function address. As a result, to find if a function + * pointer is part of the kernel text, we need to do some + * special dereferencing first. + */ +int func_ptr_is_kernel_text(void *ptr) +{ + unsigned long addr; + addr = (unsigned long) dereference_function_descriptor(ptr); + if (core_kernel_text(addr)) + return 1; + return module_text_address(addr) != NULL; +} diff --git a/kernel/notifier.c b/kernel/notifier.c index 823be11584e..0f39e398ef6 100644 --- a/kernel/notifier.c +++ b/kernel/notifier.c @@ -82,6 +82,14 @@ static int __kprobes notifier_call_chain(struct notifier_block **nl, while (nb && nr_to_call) { next_nb = rcu_dereference(nb->next); + +#ifdef CONFIG_DEBUG_NOTIFIERS + if (unlikely(!func_ptr_is_kernel_text(nb->notifier_call))) { + WARN(1, "Invalid notifier called!"); + nb = next_nb; + continue; + } +#endif ret = nb->notifier_call(nb, val, v); if (nr_calls) diff --git a/kernel/softlockup.c b/kernel/softlockup.c index cb838ee93a8..b9a528f2273 100644 --- a/kernel/softlockup.c +++ b/kernel/softlockup.c @@ -164,7 +164,7 @@ unsigned long __read_mostly sysctl_hung_task_check_count = 1024; /* * Zero means infinite timeout - no checking done: */ -unsigned long __read_mostly sysctl_hung_task_timeout_secs = 120; +unsigned long __read_mostly sysctl_hung_task_timeout_secs = 480; unsigned long __read_mostly sysctl_hung_task_warnings = 10; |