kcov: don't profile branches in kcov

Profiling 'if' statements in __sanitizer_cov_trace_pc() leads to unbound recursion and crash: __sanitizer_cov_trace_pc() -> ftrace_likely_update -> __sanitizer_cov_trace_pc() ... Define DISABLE_BRANCH_PROFILING to disable this tracer. Signed-off-by: Andrey Ryabinin <[email protected]> Cc: Dmitry Vyukov <[email protected]> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <[email protected]> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <[email protected]>
arthurschreiber · Apr 29, 2016 · 36f05ae · 36f05ae
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diff --git a/kernel/kcov.c b/kernel/kcov.c
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 #define pr_fmt(fmt) "kcov: " fmt
 
+#define DISABLE_BRANCH_PROFILING
 #include <linux/compiler.h>
 #include <linux/types.h>
 #include <linux/file.h>