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bug: set warn variable before calling WARN()
This has hit me a couple of times already. I would be debugging code and the system would simply hang and then reboot. Finally, I found that the problem was caused by WARN_ON_ONCE() and friends. The macro WARN_ON_ONCE(condition) is defined as: static bool __section(.data.unlikely) __warned; int __ret_warn_once = !!(condition); if (unlikely(__ret_warn_once)) if (WARN_ON(!__warned)) __warned = true; unlikely(__ret_warn_once); Which looks great and all. But what I have hit, is an issue when WARN_ON() itself hits the same WARN_ON_ONCE() code. Because, the variable __warned is not yet set. Then it too calls WARN_ON() and that triggers the warning again. It keeps doing this until the stack is overflowed and the system crashes. By setting __warned first before calling WARN_ON() makes the original WARN_ON_ONCE() really only warn once, and not an infinite amount of times if the WARN_ON() also triggers the warning. Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <[email protected]> Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <[email protected]> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <[email protected]> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <[email protected]>
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