1. 12 Jan, 2017 4 commits
    • Josh Poimboeuf's avatar
      x86/entry: Fix the end of the stack for newly forked tasks · ff3f7e24
      Josh Poimboeuf authored
      When unwinding a task, the end of the stack is always at the same offset
      right below the saved pt_regs, regardless of which syscall was used to
      enter the kernel.  That convention allows the unwinder to verify that a
      stack is sane.
      
      However, newly forked tasks don't always follow that convention, as
      reported by the following unwinder warning seen by Dave Jones:
      
        WARNING: kernel stack frame pointer at ffffc90001443f30 in kworker/u8:8:30468 has bad value           (null)
      
      The warning was due to the following call chain:
      
        (ftrace handler)
        call_usermodehelper_exec_async+0x5/0x140
        ret_from_fork+0x22/0x30
      
      The problem is that ret_from_fork() doesn't create a stack frame before
      calling other functions.  Fix that by carefully using the frame pointer
      macros.
      
      In addition to conforming to the end of stack convention, this also
      makes related stack traces more sensible by making it clear to the user
      that ret_from_fork() was involved.
      Reported-by: default avatarDave Jones <davej@codemonkey.org.uk>
      Signed-off-by: default avatarJosh Poimboeuf <jpoimboe@redhat.com>
      Cc: Andy Lutomirski <luto@amacapital.net>
      Cc: Andy Lutomirski <luto@kernel.org>
      Cc: Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de>
      Cc: Brian Gerst <brgerst@gmail.com>
      Cc: Denys Vlasenko <dvlasenk@redhat.com>
      Cc: Dmitry Vyukov <dvyukov@google.com>
      Cc: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
      Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
      Cc: Miroslav Benes <mbenes@suse.cz>
      Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
      Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
      Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/8854cdaab980e9700a81e9ebf0d4238e4bbb68ef.1483978430.git.jpoimboe@redhat.comSigned-off-by: default avatarIngo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
      ff3f7e24
    • Josh Poimboeuf's avatar
      x86/unwind: Include __schedule() in stack traces · 2c96b2fe
      Josh Poimboeuf authored
      In the following commit:
      
        0100301b ("sched/x86: Rewrite the switch_to() code")
      
      ... the layout of the 'inactive_task_frame' struct was designed to have
      a frame pointer header embedded in it, so that the unwinder could use
      the 'bp' and 'ret_addr' fields to report __schedule() on the stack (or
      ret_from_fork() for newly forked tasks which haven't actually run yet).
      
      Finish the job by changing get_frame_pointer() to return a pointer to
      inactive_task_frame's 'bp' field rather than 'bp' itself.  This allows
      the unwinder to start one frame higher on the stack, so that it properly
      reports __schedule().
      Reported-by: default avatarMiroslav Benes <mbenes@suse.cz>
      Signed-off-by: default avatarJosh Poimboeuf <jpoimboe@redhat.com>
      Cc: Andy Lutomirski <luto@amacapital.net>
      Cc: Andy Lutomirski <luto@kernel.org>
      Cc: Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de>
      Cc: Brian Gerst <brgerst@gmail.com>
      Cc: Dave Jones <davej@codemonkey.org.uk>
      Cc: Denys Vlasenko <dvlasenk@redhat.com>
      Cc: Dmitry Vyukov <dvyukov@google.com>
      Cc: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
      Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
      Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
      Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
      Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/598e9f7505ed0aba86e8b9590aa528c6c7ae8dcd.1483978430.git.jpoimboe@redhat.comSigned-off-by: default avatarIngo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
      2c96b2fe
    • Josh Poimboeuf's avatar
      x86/unwind: Disable KASAN checks for non-current tasks · 84936118
      Josh Poimboeuf authored
      There are a handful of callers to save_stack_trace_tsk() and
      show_stack() which try to unwind the stack of a task other than current.
      In such cases, it's remotely possible that the task is running on one
      CPU while the unwinder is reading its stack from another CPU, causing
      the unwinder to see stack corruption.
      
      These cases seem to be mostly harmless.  The unwinder has checks which
      prevent it from following bad pointers beyond the bounds of the stack.
      So it's not really a bug as long as the caller understands that
      unwinding another task will not always succeed.
      
      In such cases, it's possible that the unwinder may read a KASAN-poisoned
      region of the stack.  Account for that by using READ_ONCE_NOCHECK() when
      reading the stack of another task.
      
      Use READ_ONCE() when reading the stack of the current task, since KASAN
      warnings can still be useful for finding bugs in that case.
      Reported-by: default avatarDmitry Vyukov <dvyukov@google.com>
      Signed-off-by: default avatarJosh Poimboeuf <jpoimboe@redhat.com>
      Cc: Andy Lutomirski <luto@amacapital.net>
      Cc: Andy Lutomirski <luto@kernel.org>
      Cc: Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de>
      Cc: Brian Gerst <brgerst@gmail.com>
      Cc: Dave Jones <davej@codemonkey.org.uk>
      Cc: Denys Vlasenko <dvlasenk@redhat.com>
      Cc: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
      Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
      Cc: Miroslav Benes <mbenes@suse.cz>
      Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
      Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
      Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/4c575eb288ba9f73d498dfe0acde2f58674598f1.1483978430.git.jpoimboe@redhat.comSigned-off-by: default avatarIngo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
      84936118
    • Josh Poimboeuf's avatar
      x86/unwind: Silence warnings for non-current tasks · 900742d8
      Josh Poimboeuf authored
      There are a handful of callers to save_stack_trace_tsk() and
      show_stack() which try to unwind the stack of a task other than current.
      In such cases, it's remotely possible that the task is running on one
      CPU while the unwinder is reading its stack from another CPU, causing
      the unwinder to see stack corruption.
      
      These cases seem to be mostly harmless.  The unwinder has checks which
      prevent it from following bad pointers beyond the bounds of the stack.
      So it's not really a bug as long as the caller understands that
      unwinding another task will not always succeed.
      
      Since stack "corruption" on another task's stack isn't necessarily a
      bug, silence the warnings when unwinding tasks other than current.
      Reported-by: default avatarDave Jones <davej@codemonkey.org.uk>
      Signed-off-by: default avatarJosh Poimboeuf <jpoimboe@redhat.com>
      Cc: Andy Lutomirski <luto@amacapital.net>
      Cc: Andy Lutomirski <luto@kernel.org>
      Cc: Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de>
      Cc: Brian Gerst <brgerst@gmail.com>
      Cc: Denys Vlasenko <dvlasenk@redhat.com>
      Cc: Dmitry Vyukov <dvyukov@google.com>
      Cc: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
      Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
      Cc: Miroslav Benes <mbenes@suse.cz>
      Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
      Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
      Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/00d8c50eea3446c1524a2a755397a3966629354c.1483978430.git.jpoimboe@redhat.comSigned-off-by: default avatarIngo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
      900742d8
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