Patch "sysrq : fix Show Regs call trace on ARM" has been added to the 4.14-stable tree

This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled

sysrq : fix Show Regs call trace on ARM

to the 4.14-stable tree which can be found at:
http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/stable/stable-queue.git;a=summary

The filename of the patch is:
sysrq-fix-show-regs-call-trace-on-arm.patch
and it can be found in the queue-4.14 subdirectory.

If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree, please let <[email protected]> know about it.

From: Jibin Xu <[email protected]>
Date: Sun, 10 Sep 2017 20:11:42 -0700
Subject: sysrq : fix Show Regs call trace on ARM

From: Jibin Xu <[email protected]>

[ Upstream commit b00bebbc301c8e1f74f230dc82282e56b7e7a6db ]

When kernel configuration SMP,PREEMPT and DEBUG_PREEMPT are enabled, echo 1 >/proc/sys/kernel/sysrq
echo p >/proc/sysrq-trigger
kernel will print call trace as below:

sysrq: SysRq : Show Regs

BUG: using __this_cpu_read() in preemptible [00000000] code: sh/435
caller is __this_cpu_preempt_check+0x18/0x20
Call trace:
[<ffffff8008088e80>] dump_backtrace+0x0/0x1d0
[<ffffff8008089074>] show_stack+0x24/0x30
[<ffffff8008447970>] dump_stack+0x90/0xb0
[<ffffff8008463950>] check_preemption_disabled+0x100/0x108
[<ffffff8008463998>] __this_cpu_preempt_check+0x18/0x20
[<ffffff80084c9194>] sysrq_handle_showregs+0x1c/0x40
[<ffffff80084c9c7c>] __handle_sysrq+0x12c/0x1a0
[<ffffff80084ca140>] write_sysrq_trigger+0x60/0x70
[<ffffff8008251e00>] proc_reg_write+0x90/0xd0
[<ffffff80081f1788>] __vfs_write+0x48/0x90
[<ffffff80081f241c>] vfs_write+0xa4/0x190
[<ffffff80081f3354>] SyS_write+0x54/0xb0
[<ffffff80080833f0>] el0_svc_naked+0x24/0x28

This can be seen on a common board like an r-pi3. This happens because when echo p >/proc/sysrq-trigger, get_irq_regs() is called outside of IRQ context, if preemption is enabled in this situation,kernel will print the call trace. Since many prior discussions on the mailing lists have made it clear that get_irq_regs either just returns NULL or stale data when used outside of IRQ context,we simply avoid calling it outside of IRQ context.

---
 drivers/tty/sysrq.c |    9 +++++++--
 1 file changed, 7 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

@@ -246,8 +246,10 @@ static void sysrq_handle_showallcpus(int
 	 * architecture has no support for it:
 	 */
 	if (!trigger_all_cpu_backtrace()) {
-		struct pt_regs *regs = get_irq_regs();
+		struct pt_regs *regs = NULL;
 
+		if (in_irq())
+			regs = get_irq_regs();
 		if (regs) {
 			pr_info("CPU%d:\n", smp_processor_id());
 			show_regs(regs);

@@ -266,7 +268,10 @@ static struct sysrq_key_op sysrq_showall
 
 static void sysrq_handle_showregs(int key)
 {
-	struct pt_regs *regs = get_irq_regs();
+	struct pt_regs *regs = NULL;
+
+	if (in_irq())
+		regs = get_irq_regs();
 	if (regs)
 		show_regs(regs);
 	perf_event_print_debug();

Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from [email protected] are

queue-4.14/sysrq-fix-show-regs-call-trace-on-arm.patch