From: Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@arm.com>
To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Cc: Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@arm.com>,
Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
Eric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com>,
Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>,
Josh Poimboeuf <jpoimboe@redhat.com>
Subject: [PATCH 3/3] lib: dump_stack: explicitly pass current to show_stack
Date: Mon, 26 Sep 2016 16:16:19 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1474902979-18436-4-git-send-email-mark.rutland@arm.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1474902979-18436-1-git-send-email-mark.rutland@arm.com>
As noted in commit:
81539169f283329f ("x86/dumpstack: Remove NULL task pointer convention")
... having a NULL task parameter imply current leads to subtle bugs in stack
walking code (so far seen on both 86 and arm64), makes callsites harder to
read, and is unnecessary as all callers have access to current.
As a step towards removing the problematic NULL-implies-current idiom entirely,
have the dump_stack code explicitly pass current to show_stack.
Signed-off-by: Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@arm.com>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Cc: Josh Poimboeuf <jpoimboe@redhat.com>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
---
lib/dump_stack.c | 2 +-
1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
diff --git a/lib/dump_stack.c b/lib/dump_stack.c
index c30d07e..7296b63 100644
--- a/lib/dump_stack.c
+++ b/lib/dump_stack.c
@@ -12,7 +12,7 @@
static void __dump_stack(void)
{
dump_stack_print_info(KERN_DEFAULT);
- show_stack(NULL, NULL);
+ show_stack(current, NULL);
}
/**
--
2.7.4
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2016-09-26 15:16 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2016-09-26 15:16 [PATCH 0/3] Kill off show_stack() NULL-implies-current idiom Mark Rutland
2016-09-26 15:16 ` [PATCH 1/3] sched: document that show_stack() should not be passed a NULL task Mark Rutland
2016-09-26 15:16 ` [PATCH 2/3] drivers/tty: Explicitly pass current to show_stack Mark Rutland
2016-09-26 15:16 ` Mark Rutland [this message]
2016-09-26 20:01 ` [PATCH 0/3] Kill off show_stack() NULL-implies-current idiom Josh Poimboeuf
2016-09-26 21:33 ` Mark Rutland
2016-09-27 17:57 ` Mark Rutland
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