| commit | 6f6b1e0477ccb2f25a9b045e38440347d2ce21c8 | [log] [tgz] |
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| author | Fernando Luis Vázquez Cao <fernando@oss.ntt.co.jp> | Tue Sep 26 10:52:36 2006 +0200 |
| committer | Andi Kleen <andi@basil.nowhere.org> | Tue Sep 26 10:52:36 2006 +0200 |
| tree | 691c53a8a7e1e6338d11bd3158618cbc44036a57 | |
| parent | e9dff0ee6694b2edd40b1b448cb786f6a7b02336 [diff] |
[PATCH] i386: Disallow kprobes on NMI handlers
A kprobe executes IRET early and that could cause NMI recursion and stack
corruption.
Note: This problem was originally spotted by Andi Kleen. This patch
adds fixes not included in his original patch.
[AK: Jan Beulich originally discovered these classes of bugs]
Signed-off-by: Fernando Vazquez <fernando@intellilink.co.jp>
Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>