This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled ARC: stack unwinding: don't assume non-current task is sleeping to the 4.4-stable tree which can be found at: http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/stable/stable-queue.git;a=summary The filename of the patch is: arc-stack-unwinding-don-t-assume-non-current-task-is.patch and it can be found in the queue-4.4 subdirectory. If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree, please let <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> know about it. commit cfead30081c5747312c1ed45c8ecd65a5f800c0b Author: Vineet Gupta <vgupta@xxxxxxxxxxxx> Date: Fri Nov 6 16:59:27 2020 -0800 ARC: stack unwinding: don't assume non-current task is sleeping [ Upstream commit e42404fa10fd11fe72d0a0e149a321d10e577715 ] To start stack unwinding (SP, PC and BLINK) are needed. When the explicit execution context (pt_regs etc) is not available, unwinder assumes the task is sleeping (in __switch_to()) and fetches SP and BLINK from kernel mode stack. But this assumption is not true, specially in a SMP system, when top runs on 1 core, there may be active running processes on all cores. So when unwinding non courrent tasks, ensure they are NOT running. And while at it, handle the self unwinding case explicitly. This came out of investigation of a customer reported hang with rcutorture+top Link: https://github.com/foss-for-synopsys-dwc-arc-processors/linux/issues/31 Signed-off-by: Vineet Gupta <vgupta@xxxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sashal@xxxxxxxxxx> diff --git a/arch/arc/kernel/stacktrace.c b/arch/arc/kernel/stacktrace.c index 5401e2bab3da2..054511f571dfd 100644 --- a/arch/arc/kernel/stacktrace.c +++ b/arch/arc/kernel/stacktrace.c @@ -39,15 +39,15 @@ #ifdef CONFIG_ARC_DW2_UNWIND -static void seed_unwind_frame_info(struct task_struct *tsk, - struct pt_regs *regs, - struct unwind_frame_info *frame_info) +static int +seed_unwind_frame_info(struct task_struct *tsk, struct pt_regs *regs, + struct unwind_frame_info *frame_info) { /* * synchronous unwinding (e.g. dump_stack) * - uses current values of SP and friends */ - if (tsk == NULL && regs == NULL) { + if (regs == NULL && (tsk == NULL || tsk == current)) { unsigned long fp, sp, blink, ret; frame_info->task = current; @@ -66,11 +66,15 @@ static void seed_unwind_frame_info(struct task_struct *tsk, frame_info->call_frame = 0; } else if (regs == NULL) { /* - * Asynchronous unwinding of sleeping task - * - Gets SP etc from task's pt_regs (saved bottom of kernel - * mode stack of task) + * Asynchronous unwinding of a likely sleeping task + * - first ensure it is actually sleeping + * - if so, it will be in __switch_to, kernel mode SP of task + * is safe-kept and BLINK at a well known location in there */ + if (tsk->state == TASK_RUNNING) + return -1; + frame_info->task = tsk; frame_info->regs.r27 = TSK_K_FP(tsk); @@ -104,6 +108,8 @@ static void seed_unwind_frame_info(struct task_struct *tsk, frame_info->regs.r63 = regs->ret; frame_info->call_frame = 0; } + + return 0; } #endif @@ -117,7 +123,8 @@ arc_unwind_core(struct task_struct *tsk, struct pt_regs *regs, unsigned int address; struct unwind_frame_info frame_info; - seed_unwind_frame_info(tsk, regs, &frame_info); + if (seed_unwind_frame_info(tsk, regs, &frame_info)) + return 0; while (1) { address = UNW_PC(&frame_info);