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Date:   Fri, 13 Mar 2020 13:24:09 +0100 (CET)
From:   Miroslav Benes <mbenes@suse.cz>
To:     Josh Poimboeuf <jpoimboe@redhat.com>
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Subject: Re: [PATCH 10/14] x86/unwind/orc: Prevent unwinding before ORC
 initialization
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On Thu, 12 Mar 2020, Josh Poimboeuf wrote:

> If the unwinder is called before the ORC data has been initialized,
> orc_find() returns NULL, and it tries to fall back to using frame
> pointers.  This can cause some unexpected warnings during boot.
> 
> Move the 'orc_init' check from orc_find() to __unwind_init(), so that it

s/__unwind_init()/__unwind_start()/

>  void __unwind_start(struct unwind_state *state, struct task_struct *task,
>  		    struct pt_regs *regs, unsigned long *first_frame)
>  {
> +	if (!orc_init)
> +		goto done;
> +
>  	memset(state, 0, sizeof(*state));
>  	state->task = task;

Miroslav