This is possible because cpu_name_string() is used by __show_regs(),
which is used by both show_regs() and show_registers(). These two
functions are used by various exception handling functions, only some of
which ensure that interrupts or preemption is disabled.
However the following have interrupts explicitly enabled or not
explicitly disabled:
- do_reserved() (irqs enabled)
- do_ade() (irqs not disabled)
This can be hit by setting /sys/kernel/debug/mips/unaligned_action to 2,
and triggering an address error exception, e.g. an unaligned access or
access to kernel segment from user mode.
To fix the above cases, use raw_smp_processor_id() instead. It is
unusual for CPU names to be different in the same system, and even if
they were, its possible the process has migrated between the exception
of interest and the cpu_name_string() call anyway.