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-rw-r--r--kernel/extable.c16
-rw-r--r--kernel/notifier.c8
-rw-r--r--kernel/softlockup.c2
3 files changed, 25 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/kernel/extable.c b/kernel/extable.c
index a26cb2e17023..adf0cc9c02d6 100644
--- a/kernel/extable.c
+++ b/kernel/extable.c
@@ -66,3 +66,19 @@ int kernel_text_address(unsigned long addr)
return 1;
return module_text_address(addr) != NULL;
}
+
+/*
+ * On some architectures (PPC64, IA64) function pointers
+ * are actually only tokens to some data that then holds the
+ * real function address. As a result, to find if a function
+ * pointer is part of the kernel text, we need to do some
+ * special dereferencing first.
+ */
+int func_ptr_is_kernel_text(void *ptr)
+{
+ unsigned long addr;
+ addr = (unsigned long) dereference_function_descriptor(ptr);
+ if (core_kernel_text(addr))
+ return 1;
+ return module_text_address(addr) != NULL;
+}
diff --git a/kernel/notifier.c b/kernel/notifier.c
index 823be11584ef..0f39e398ef60 100644
--- a/kernel/notifier.c
+++ b/kernel/notifier.c
@@ -82,6 +82,14 @@ static int __kprobes notifier_call_chain(struct notifier_block **nl,
while (nb && nr_to_call) {
next_nb = rcu_dereference(nb->next);
+
+#ifdef CONFIG_DEBUG_NOTIFIERS
+ if (unlikely(!func_ptr_is_kernel_text(nb->notifier_call))) {
+ WARN(1, "Invalid notifier called!");
+ nb = next_nb;
+ continue;
+ }
+#endif
ret = nb->notifier_call(nb, val, v);
if (nr_calls)
diff --git a/kernel/softlockup.c b/kernel/softlockup.c
index cb838ee93a82..b9a528f22736 100644
--- a/kernel/softlockup.c
+++ b/kernel/softlockup.c
@@ -164,7 +164,7 @@ unsigned long __read_mostly sysctl_hung_task_check_count = 1024;
/*
* Zero means infinite timeout - no checking done:
*/
-unsigned long __read_mostly sysctl_hung_task_timeout_secs = 120;
+unsigned long __read_mostly sysctl_hung_task_timeout_secs = 480;
unsigned long __read_mostly sysctl_hung_task_warnings = 10;