The livepatch consistency model requires reliable stack tracing
architecture support in order to work properly. In order to achieve
this, two main issues have to be solved. First, reliable and consistent
call chain backtracing has to be ensured. Second, the unwinder needs to
be able to detect stack corruptions and return errors.
The "zSeries ELF Application Binary Interface Supplement" says:
"The stack pointer points to the first word of the lowest allocated
stack frame. If the "back chain" is implemented this word will point to
the previously allocated stack frame (towards higher addresses), except
for the first stack frame, which shall have a back chain of zero (NULL).
The stack shall grow downwards, in other words towards lower addresses."
"back chain" is optional. GCC option -mbackchain enables it. Quoting
Martin Schwidefsky [1]:
"The compiler is called with the -mbackchain option, all normal C
function will store the backchain in the function prologue. All
functions written in assembler code should do the same, if you find one
that does not we should fix that. The end result is that a task that
*voluntarily* called schedule() should have a proper backchain at all
times.
Dependent on the use case this may or may not be enough. Asynchronous
interrupts may stop the CPU at the beginning of a function, if kernel
preemption is enabled we can end up with a broken backchain. The
production kernels for IBM Z are all compiled *without* kernel
preemption. So yes, we might get away without the objtool support.
On a side-note, we do have a line item to implement the ORC unwinder for
the kernel, that includes the objtool support. Once we have that we can
drop the -mbackchain option for the kernel build. That gives us a nice
little performance benefit. I hope that the change from backchain to the
ORC unwinder will not be too hard to implement in the livepatch tools."
Since -mbackchain is enabled by default when the kernel is compiled, the
call chain backtracing should be currently ensured and objtool should
not be necessary for livepatch purposes.
Regarding the second issue, stack corruptions and non-reliable states
have to be recognized by the unwinder. Mainly it means to detect
preemption or page faults, the end of the task stack must be reached,
return addresses must be valid text addresses and hacks like function
graph tracing and kretprobes must be properly detected.
Unwinding a running task's stack is not a problem, because there is a
livepatch requirement that every checked task is blocked, except for the
current task. Due to that, the implementation can be much simpler
compared to the existing non-reliable infrastructure. We can consider a
task's kernel/thread stack only and skip the other stacks.
Idle tasks are a bit special. Their final back chains point to no_dat
stacks. See for reference CALL_ON_STACK() in smp_start_secondary()
callback used in __cpu_up(). The unwinding is stopped there and it is
not considered to be a stack corruption.
[1] 20180912121106.31ffa97c@mschwideX1 [not archived on lore.kernel.org]
Signed-off-by: Miroslav Benes <mbenes@xxxxxxx>
---
arch/s390/Kconfig | 1 +
arch/s390/include/asm/unwind.h | 1 +
arch/s390/kernel/dumpstack.c | 11 +++++++
arch/s390/kernel/stacktrace.c | 46 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
arch/s390/kernel/unwind_bc.c | 56 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
5 files changed, 115 insertions(+)
diff --git a/arch/s390/Kconfig b/arch/s390/Kconfig
index 43a81d0ad507..9cfec1000abd 100644
--- a/arch/s390/Kconfig
+++ b/arch/s390/Kconfig
@@ -170,6 +170,7 @@ config S390
select HAVE_PERF_EVENTS
select HAVE_RCU_TABLE_FREE
select HAVE_REGS_AND_STACK_ACCESS_API
+ select HAVE_RELIABLE_STACKTRACE
select HAVE_RSEQ
select HAVE_SYSCALL_TRACEPOINTS
select HAVE_VIRT_CPU_ACCOUNTING
diff --git a/arch/s390/include/asm/unwind.h b/arch/s390/include/asm/unwind.h
index 1f4de78c3ef9..87d1850d195a 100644
--- a/arch/s390/include/asm/unwind.h
+++ b/arch/s390/include/asm/unwind.h
@@ -44,6 +44,7 @@ void __unwind_start(struct unwind_state *state, struct task_struct *task,
struct pt_regs *regs, unsigned long first_frame,
bool unwind_reliable);
bool unwind_next_frame(struct unwind_state *state);
+bool unwind_next_frame_reliable(struct unwind_state *state);
unsigned long unwind_get_return_address(struct unwind_state *state);
static inline bool unwind_done(struct unwind_state *state)
diff --git a/arch/s390/kernel/dumpstack.c b/arch/s390/kernel/dumpstack.c
index 1ee19e6336cd..0081e75b957c 100644
--- a/arch/s390/kernel/dumpstack.c
+++ b/arch/s390/kernel/dumpstack.c
@@ -94,12 +94,23 @@ int get_stack_info(unsigned long sp, struct task_struct *task,
if (!sp)
goto unknown;
+ /* Sanity check: ABI requires SP to be aligned 8 bytes. */
+ if (sp & 0x7)
+ goto unknown;
+
task = task ? : current;
/* Check per-task stack */
if (in_task_stack(sp, task, info))
goto recursion_check;
+ /*
+ * The reliable unwinding should not start on nodat_stack, async_stack
+ * or restart_stack. The task is either current or must be inactive.
+ */
+ if (unwind_reliable)
+ goto unknown;
+
if (task != current)
goto unknown;
diff --git a/arch/s390/kernel/stacktrace.c b/arch/s390/kernel/stacktrace.c
index 751c136172f7..cff9ba0715e6 100644
--- a/arch/s390/kernel/stacktrace.c
+++ b/arch/s390/kernel/stacktrace.c
@@ -9,6 +9,7 @@
#include <linux/stacktrace.h>
#include <asm/stacktrace.h>
#include <asm/unwind.h>
+#include <asm/kprobes.h>
void arch_stack_walk(stack_trace_consume_fn consume_entry, void *cookie,
struct task_struct *task, struct pt_regs *regs)
@@ -22,3 +23,48 @@ void arch_stack_walk(stack_trace_consume_fn consume_entry, void *cookie,
break;
}
}
+
+/*
+ * This function returns an error if it detects any unreliable features of the
+ * stack. Otherwise it guarantees that the stack trace is reliable.
+ *
+ * If the task is not 'current', the caller *must* ensure the task is inactive.
+ */
+int arch_stack_walk_reliable(stack_trace_consume_fn consume_entry,
+ void *cookie, struct task_struct *task)
+{
+ struct unwind_state state;
+ unsigned long addr;
+
+ for (unwind_start(&state, task, NULL, 0, true);
+ !unwind_done(&state) && !unwind_error(&state);
+ unwind_next_frame_reliable(&state)) {
+
+ addr = unwind_get_return_address(&state);
+ if (!addr)
+ return -EINVAL;
+
+#ifdef CONFIG_KPROBES
+ /*
+ * Mark stacktraces with kretprobed functions on them
+ * as unreliable.
+ */
+ if (state.ip == (unsigned long)kretprobe_trampoline)
+ return -EINVAL;
+#endif
+
+ if (!consume_entry(cookie, addr, false))
+ return -EINVAL;
+ }
+
+ /* Check for stack corruption */
+ if (unwind_error(&state))
+ return -EINVAL;
+
+ /* Store kernel_thread_starter, null for swapper/0 */
+ if ((task->flags & (PF_KTHREAD | PF_IDLE)) &&
+ !consume_entry(cookie, state.regs->psw.addr, false))
+ return -EINVAL;
+
+ return 0;
+}
diff --git a/arch/s390/kernel/unwind_bc.c b/arch/s390/kernel/unwind_bc.c
index 564eef63668b..8d3a1d137ad0 100644
--- a/arch/s390/kernel/unwind_bc.c
+++ b/arch/s390/kernel/unwind_bc.c
@@ -98,6 +98,62 @@ bool unwind_next_frame(struct unwind_state *state)
}
EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(unwind_next_frame);
+bool unwind_next_frame_reliable(struct unwind_state *state)
+{
+ struct stack_info *info = &state->stack_info;
+ struct stack_frame *sf;
+ struct pt_regs *regs;
+ unsigned long sp, ip;
+
+ sf = (struct stack_frame *) state->sp;
+ sp = READ_ONCE_NOCHECK(sf->back_chain);
+ /*
+ * Idle tasks are special. The final back-chain points to nodat_stack.
+ * See CALL_ON_STACK() in smp_start_secondary() callback used in
+ * __cpu_up(). We just accept it, go to else branch and look for
+ * pt_regs.
+ */
+ if (likely(sp && !(is_idle_task(state->task) &&
+ outside_of_stack(state, sp)))) {
+ /* Non-zero back-chain points to the previous frame */
+ if (unlikely(outside_of_stack(state, sp)))
+ goto out_err;
+
+ sf = (struct stack_frame *) sp;
+ ip = READ_ONCE_NOCHECK(sf->gprs[8]);
+ } else {
+ /* No back-chain, look for a pt_regs structure */
+ sp = state->sp + STACK_FRAME_OVERHEAD;
+ regs = (struct pt_regs *) sp;
+ if ((unsigned long)regs != info->end - sizeof(struct pt_regs))
+ goto out_err;
+ if (!(state->task->flags & (PF_KTHREAD | PF_IDLE)) &&
+ !user_mode(regs))
+ goto out_err;
+
+ state->regs = regs;
+ goto out_stop;
+ }
+
+ /* Sanity check: ABI requires SP to be aligned 8 bytes. */
+ if (sp & 0x7)
+ goto out_err;
+
+ ip = ftrace_graph_ret_addr(state->task, &state->graph_idx,
+ ip, (void *) sp);
+
+ /* Update unwind state */
+ state->sp = sp;
+ state->ip = ip;
+ return true;
+
+out_err:
+ state->error = true;
+out_stop:
+ state->stack_info.type = STACK_TYPE_UNKNOWN;
+ return false;
+}
+
void __unwind_start(struct unwind_state *state, struct task_struct *task,
struct pt_regs *regs, unsigned long sp,
bool unwind_reliable)
--
2.23.0
