Andrew Cooper
2012-Nov-14 15:55 UTC
[PATCH] x86/nmi: self_nmi() should not unconditionally enable interrupts
It seems that all current callers have interrupts enabled, making the code currently safe but dangerous. Also, fix a trailing whitespace issue. Signed-off-by: Andrew Cooper <andrew.cooper3@citrix.com> diff -r 8b93ac0c93f3 -r f3adcb7d84ea xen/arch/x86/nmi.c --- a/xen/arch/x86/nmi.c +++ b/xen/arch/x86/nmi.c @@ -482,13 +482,14 @@ void nmi_watchdog_tick(struct cpu_user_r * 8-3 and 8-4 in IA32 Reference Manual Volume 3. We send the IPI to * our own APIC ID explicitly which is valid. */ -void self_nmi(void) +void self_nmi(void) { + unsigned long flags; u32 id = get_apic_id(); - local_irq_disable(); + local_irq_save(flags); apic_wait_icr_idle(); apic_icr_write(APIC_DM_NMI | APIC_DEST_PHYSICAL, id); - local_irq_enable(); + local_irq_restore(flags); } static void do_nmi_trigger(unsigned char key)