lwn.git/arch/x86/kernel/stacktrace.c, branch v4.14-rc8

stacktrace/x86: add function for detecting reliable stack traces

2017-03-08T08:18:02+00:00

For live patching and possibly other use cases, a stack trace is only useful if it can be assured that it's completely reliable. Add a new save_stack_trace_tsk_reliable() function to achieve that. Note that if the target task isn't the current task, and the target task is allowed to run, then it could be writing the stack while the unwinder is reading it, resulting in possible corruption. So the caller of save_stack_trace_tsk_reliable() must ensure that the task is either 'current' or inactive. save_stack_trace_tsk_reliable() relies on the x86 unwinder's detection of pt_regs on the stack. If the pt_regs are not user-mode registers from a syscall, then they indicate an in-kernel interrupt or exception (e.g. preemption or a page fault), in which case the stack is considered unreliable due to the nature of frame pointers. It also relies on the x86 unwinder's detection of other issues, such as: - corrupted stack data - stack grows the wrong way - stack walk doesn't reach the bottom - user didn't provide a large enough entries array Such issues are reported by checking unwind_error() and !unwind_done(). Also add CONFIG_HAVE_RELIABLE_STACKTRACE so arch-independent code can determine at build time whether the function is implemented. Signed-off-by: Josh Poimboeuf Reviewed-by: Miroslav Benes Acked-by: Ingo Molnar # for the x86 changes Signed-off-by: Jiri Kosina

sched/headers: Prepare for new header dependencies before moving code to

2017-03-02T07:42:36+00:00

We are going to split out of , which will have to be picked up from other headers and a couple of .c files. Create a trivial placeholder file that just maps to to make this patch obviously correct and bisectable. Include the new header in the files that are going to need it. Acked-by: Linus Torvalds Cc: Mike Galbraith Cc: Peter Zijlstra Cc: Thomas Gleixner Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar

sched/headers: Prepare for new header dependencies before moving code to

2017-03-02T07:42:34+00:00

x86/stacktrace: Convert save_stack_trace_*() to use the new unwinder

2016-09-20T06:29:33+00:00

Convert save_stack_trace_*() to use the new unwinder. dump_trace() has been deprecated. Signed-off-by: Josh Poimboeuf Cc: Andy Lutomirski Cc: Andy Lutomirski Cc: Borislav Petkov Cc: Brian Gerst Cc: Byungchul Park Cc: Denys Vlasenko Cc: Frederic Weisbecker Cc: H. Peter Anvin Cc: Kees Cook Cc: Linus Torvalds Cc: Nilay Vaish Cc: Peter Zijlstra Cc: Steven Rostedt Cc: Thomas Gleixner Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/815494c627d89887db0ce56ceffd58ad16ee6c21.1474045023.git.jpoimboe@redhat.com Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar

x86/dumpstack: Pin the target stack when dumping it

2016-09-16T07:18:53+00:00

Specifically, pin the stack in save_stack_trace_tsk() and show_trace_log_lvl(). This will prevent a crash if the target task dies before or while dumping its stack once we start freeing task stacks early. Signed-off-by: Andy Lutomirski Cc: Borislav Petkov Cc: Brian Gerst Cc: Denys Vlasenko Cc: H. Peter Anvin Cc: Jann Horn Cc: Josh Poimboeuf Cc: Linus Torvalds Cc: Peter Zijlstra Cc: Thomas Gleixner Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/cf0082cde65d1941a996d026f2b2cdbfaca17bfa.1474003868.git.luto@kernel.org Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar

x86/dumpstack: Add get_stack_info() interface

2016-09-15T06:13:15+00:00

valid_stack_ptr() is buggy: it assumes that all stacks are of size THREAD_SIZE, which is not true for exception stacks. So the walk_stack() callbacks will need to know the location of the beginning of the stack as well as the end. Another issue is that in general the various features of a stack (type, size, next stack pointer, description string) are scattered around in various places throughout the stack dump code. Encapsulate all that information in a single place with a new stack_info struct and a get_stack_info() interface. Signed-off-by: Josh Poimboeuf Cc: Andy Lutomirski Cc: Andy Lutomirski Cc: Borislav Petkov Cc: Brian Gerst Cc: Byungchul Park Cc: Denys Vlasenko Cc: Frederic Weisbecker Cc: H. Peter Anvin Cc: Kees Cook Cc: Linus Torvalds Cc: Nilay Vaish Cc: Peter Zijlstra Cc: Steven Rostedt Cc: Thomas Gleixner Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/8164dd0db96b7e6a279fa17ae5e6dc375eecb4a9.1473905218.git.jpoimboe@redhat.com Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar

x86/kernel: Audit and remove any unnecessary uses of module.h

2016-07-14T13:06:41+00:00

Historically a lot of these existed because we did not have a distinction between what was modular code and what was providing support to modules via EXPORT_SYMBOL and friends. That changed when we forked out support for the latter into the export.h file. This means we should be able to reduce the usage of module.h in code that is obj-y Makefile or bool Kconfig. The advantage in doing so is that module.h itself sources about 15 other headers; adding significantly to what we feed cpp, and it can obscure what headers we are effectively using. Since module.h was the source for init.h (for __init) and for export.h (for EXPORT_SYMBOL) we consider each obj-y/bool instance for the presence of either and replace as needed. Build testing revealed some implicit header usage that was fixed up accordingly. Note that some bool/obj-y instances remain since module.h is the header for some exception table entry stuff, and for things like __init_or_module (code that is tossed when MODULES=n). Signed-off-by: Paul Gortmaker Cc: Linus Torvalds Cc: Peter Zijlstra Cc: Thomas Gleixner Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20160714001901.31603-4-paul.gortmaker@windriver.com Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar

perf: generalize perf_callchain

2016-02-20T05:21:44+00:00

. avoid walking the stack when there is no room left in the buffer . generalize get_perf_callchain() to be called from bpf helper Signed-off-by: Alexei Starovoitov Signed-off-by: David S. Miller

x86: Swap save_stack_trace_regs parameters

2011-06-15T02:48:51+00:00

Swap the 1st and 2nd parameters of save_stack_trace_regs() as same as the parameters of save_stack_trace_tsk(). Signed-off-by: Masami Hiramatsu Cc: yrl.pp-manager.tt@hitachi.com Cc: Frederic Weisbecker Cc: Peter Zijlstra Cc: Namhyung Kim Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20110608070921.17777.31103.stgit@fedora15 Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt

x86: Remove warning and warning_symbol from struct stacktrace_ops

2011-05-12T13:31:28+00:00

Both warning and warning_symbol are nowhere used. Let's get rid of them. Signed-off-by: Richard Weinberger Cc: Oleg Nesterov Cc: Andrew Morton Cc: Huang Ying Cc: Soeren Sandmann Pedersen Cc: Namhyung Kim Cc: x86 Cc: H. Peter Anvin Cc: Thomas Gleixner Cc: Robert Richter Cc: Paul Mundt Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1305205872-10321-2-git-send-email-richard@nod.at Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker