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authorJosh Poimboeuf <jpoimboe@redhat.com>2016-10-26 10:41:48 -0500
committerIngo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>2016-10-27 08:32:37 +0200
commitc32c47c68a0ae701088c5b2c3798856ed16746ae (patch)
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parentbb12d6740f6de393927362f23f833a79d85df384 (diff)
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x86/unwind: Warn on bad frame pointer
Detect situations in the unwinder where the frame pointer refers to a bad address, and print an appropriate warning. Use printk_deferred_once() because the unwinder can be called with the console lock by lockdep via save_stack_trace(). Signed-off-by: Josh Poimboeuf <jpoimboe@redhat.com> 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: 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/03c888f6f7414d54fa56b393ea25482be6899b5f.1477496147.git.jpoimboe@redhat.com Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'arch/x86/kernel/unwind_frame.c')
-rw-r--r--arch/x86/kernel/unwind_frame.c18
1 files changed, 16 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/arch/x86/kernel/unwind_frame.c b/arch/x86/kernel/unwind_frame.c
index 5795427..9be9a8f 100644
--- a/arch/x86/kernel/unwind_frame.c
+++ b/arch/x86/kernel/unwind_frame.c
@@ -123,8 +123,17 @@ bool unwind_next_frame(struct unwind_state *state)
}
/* make sure the next frame's data is accessible */
- if (!update_stack_state(state, next_frame, next_len))
- return false;
+ if (!update_stack_state(state, next_frame, next_len)) {
+ /*
+ * Don't warn on bad regs->bp. An interrupt in entry code
+ * might cause a false positive warning.
+ */
+ if (state->regs)
+ goto the_end;
+
+ goto bad_address;
+ }
+
/* move to the next frame */
if (regs) {
state->regs = regs;
@@ -136,6 +145,11 @@ bool unwind_next_frame(struct unwind_state *state)
return true;
+bad_address:
+ printk_deferred_once(KERN_WARNING
+ "WARNING: kernel stack frame pointer at %p in %s:%d has bad value %p\n",
+ state->bp, state->task->comm,
+ state->task->pid, next_bp);
the_end:
state->stack_info.type = STACK_TYPE_UNKNOWN;
return false;
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