This bit me in the butt.
I couldn't understand why my init app was segfaulting, with a kernel
address, but a user RIP and RSP. Well, the RIP I think was bogus, but
the kernel address was always the start of "mcount". Looking deeper, I
printed out what was in the RSP (even though it was a user stack). It
ended up showing me that the calling address was from the VDSO area.
Looking even further, I found the offending culprit, which was
vread_hpet.
Looking at the assembly dump, I saw the vread_hpet was calling mcount,
but I could not see it in the code. Nor could I see it in hpet.i (-E
option of compiling).
Well, I guess Ingo is a magician when it comes to compiler tricks, and
has the mcount being called by "every!!" function, unless you add the
"notrace" option.
This patch adds the notrace to vsyscall_fn, so that we don't have user
land apps calling mcount and crashing!
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@xxxxxxxxxxx>
Index: linux-2.6-rt-test/include/asm-x86_64/vsyscall.h
===================================================================
--- linux-2.6-rt-test.orig/include/asm-x86_64/vsyscall.h
+++ linux-2.6-rt-test/include/asm-x86_64/vsyscall.h
@@ -22,7 +22,7 @@ enum vsyscall_num {
/* Definitions for CONFIG_GENERIC_TIME definitions */
#define __section_vsyscall_gtod_data __attribute__ \
((unused, __section__ (".vsyscall_gtod_data"),aligned(16)))
-#define __vsyscall_fn __attribute__ ((unused,__section__(".vsyscall_fn")))
+#define __vsyscall_fn __attribute__ ((unused,__section__(".vsyscall_fn"))) notrace
#define VGETCPU_RDTSCP 1
#define VGETCPU_LSL 2
-
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