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authorPeter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>2016-11-22 10:57:15 +0100
committerIngo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>2016-12-06 10:32:40 +0100
commit7c4788950ba5922fde976d80b72baf46f14dee8d (patch)
tree71f081928406571e40f14f8fa2f5a54788933083 /include/linux
parent0a21fc1214a25427e13538665ff2afbe707a0b9f (diff)
x86/uaccess, sched/preempt: Verify access_ok() context
I recently encountered wreckage because access_ok() was used where it should not be, add an explicit WARN when access_ok() is used wrongly. Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Andy Lutomirski <luto@amacapital.net> Cc: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com> Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'include/linux')
-rw-r--r--include/linux/preempt.h21
1 files changed, 13 insertions, 8 deletions
diff --git a/include/linux/preempt.h b/include/linux/preempt.h
index 75e4e30677f1..7eeceac52dea 100644
--- a/include/linux/preempt.h
+++ b/include/linux/preempt.h
@@ -65,19 +65,24 @@
/*
* Are we doing bottom half or hardware interrupt processing?
- * Are we in a softirq context? Interrupt context?
- * in_softirq - Are we currently processing softirq or have bh disabled?
- * in_serving_softirq - Are we currently processing softirq?
+ *
+ * in_irq() - We're in (hard) IRQ context
+ * in_softirq() - We have BH disabled, or are processing softirqs
+ * in_interrupt() - We're in NMI,IRQ,SoftIRQ context or have BH disabled
+ * in_serving_softirq() - We're in softirq context
+ * in_nmi() - We're in NMI context
+ * in_task() - We're in task context
+ *
+ * Note: due to the BH disabled confusion: in_softirq(),in_interrupt() really
+ * should not be used in new code.
*/
#define in_irq() (hardirq_count())
#define in_softirq() (softirq_count())
#define in_interrupt() (irq_count())
#define in_serving_softirq() (softirq_count() & SOFTIRQ_OFFSET)
-
-/*
- * Are we in NMI context?
- */
-#define in_nmi() (preempt_count() & NMI_MASK)
+#define in_nmi() (preempt_count() & NMI_MASK)
+#define in_task() (!(preempt_count() & \
+ (NMI_MASK | HARDIRQ_MASK | SOFTIRQ_OFFSET)))
/*
* The preempt_count offset after preempt_disable();