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    x86/unwind: Silence warnings for non-current tasks · 900742d8
    Josh Poimboeuf authored
    
    
    There are a handful of callers to save_stack_trace_tsk() and
    show_stack() which try to unwind the stack of a task other than current.
    In such cases, it's remotely possible that the task is running on one
    CPU while the unwinder is reading its stack from another CPU, causing
    the unwinder to see stack corruption.
    
    These cases seem to be mostly harmless.  The unwinder has checks which
    prevent it from following bad pointers beyond the bounds of the stack.
    So it's not really a bug as long as the caller understands that
    unwinding another task will not always succeed.
    
    Since stack "corruption" on another task's stack isn't necessarily a
    bug, silence the warnings when unwinding tasks other than current.
    
    Reported-by: default avatarDave Jones <davej@codemonkey.org.uk>
    Signed-off-by: default avatarJosh Poimboeuf <jpoimboe@redhat.com>
    Cc: Andy Lutomirski <luto@amacapital.net>
    Cc: Andy Lutomirski <luto@kernel.org>
    Cc: Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de>
    Cc: Brian Gerst <brgerst@gmail.com>
    Cc: Denys Vlasenko <dvlasenk@redhat.com>
    Cc: Dmitry Vyukov <dvyukov@google.com>
    Cc: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
    Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
    Cc: Miroslav Benes <mbenes@suse.cz>
    Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
    Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
    Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/00d8c50eea3446c1524a2a755397a3966629354c.1483978430.git.jpoimboe@redhat.com
    
    
    Signed-off-by: default avatarIngo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
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