This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled
arm64: stacktrace: avoid tracing arch_stack_walk()
to the 5.10-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:
arm64-stacktrace-avoid-tracing-arch_stack_walk.patch
and it can be found in the queue-5.10 subdirectory.
If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree,
please let <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> know about it.
>From 0c32706dac1b0a72713184246952ab0f54327c21 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@xxxxxxx>
Date: Mon, 2 Aug 2021 17:48:45 +0100
Subject: arm64: stacktrace: avoid tracing arch_stack_walk()
From: Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@xxxxxxx>
commit 0c32706dac1b0a72713184246952ab0f54327c21 upstream.
When the function_graph tracer is in use, arch_stack_walk() may unwind
the stack incorrectly, erroneously reporting itself, missing the final
entry which is being traced, and reporting all traced entries between
these off-by-one from where they should be.
When ftrace hooks a function return, the original return address is
saved to the fgraph ret_stack, and the return address in the LR (or the
function's frame record) is replaced with `return_to_handler`.
When arm64's unwinder encounter frames returning to `return_to_handler`,
it finds the associated original return address from the fgraph ret
stack, assuming the most recent `ret_to_hander` entry on the stack
corresponds to the most recent entry in the fgraph ret stack, and so on.
When arch_stack_walk() is used to dump the current task's stack, it
starts from the caller of arch_stack_walk(). However, arch_stack_walk()
can be traced, and so may push an entry on to the fgraph ret stack,
leaving the fgraph ret stack offset by one from the expected position.
This can be seen when dumping the stack via /proc/self/stack, where
enabling the graph tracer results in an unexpected
`stack_trace_save_tsk` entry at the start of the trace, and `el0_svc`
missing form the end of the trace.
This patch fixes this by marking arch_stack_walk() as notrace, as we do
for all other functions on the path to ftrace_graph_get_ret_stack().
While a few helper functions are not marked notrace, their calls/returns
are balanced, and will have no observable effect when examining the
fgraph ret stack.
It is possible for an exeption boundary to cause a similar offset if the
return address of the interrupted context was in the LR. Fixing those
cases will require some more substantial rework, and is left for
subsequent patches.
Before:
| # cat /proc/self/stack
| [<0>] proc_pid_stack+0xc4/0x140
| [<0>] proc_single_show+0x6c/0x120
| [<0>] seq_read_iter+0x240/0x4e0
| [<0>] seq_read+0xe8/0x140
| [<0>] vfs_read+0xb8/0x1e4
| [<0>] ksys_read+0x74/0x100
| [<0>] __arm64_sys_read+0x28/0x3c
| [<0>] invoke_syscall+0x50/0x120
| [<0>] el0_svc_common.constprop.0+0xc4/0xd4
| [<0>] do_el0_svc+0x30/0x9c
| [<0>] el0_svc+0x2c/0x54
| [<0>] el0t_64_sync_handler+0x1a8/0x1b0
| [<0>] el0t_64_sync+0x198/0x19c
| # echo function_graph > /sys/kernel/tracing/current_tracer
| # cat /proc/self/stack
| [<0>] stack_trace_save_tsk+0xa4/0x110
| [<0>] proc_pid_stack+0xc4/0x140
| [<0>] proc_single_show+0x6c/0x120
| [<0>] seq_read_iter+0x240/0x4e0
| [<0>] seq_read+0xe8/0x140
| [<0>] vfs_read+0xb8/0x1e4
| [<0>] ksys_read+0x74/0x100
| [<0>] __arm64_sys_read+0x28/0x3c
| [<0>] invoke_syscall+0x50/0x120
| [<0>] el0_svc_common.constprop.0+0xc4/0xd4
| [<0>] do_el0_svc+0x30/0x9c
| [<0>] el0t_64_sync_handler+0x1a8/0x1b0
| [<0>] el0t_64_sync+0x198/0x19c
After:
| # cat /proc/self/stack
| [<0>] proc_pid_stack+0xc4/0x140
| [<0>] proc_single_show+0x6c/0x120
| [<0>] seq_read_iter+0x240/0x4e0
| [<0>] seq_read+0xe8/0x140
| [<0>] vfs_read+0xb8/0x1e4
| [<0>] ksys_read+0x74/0x100
| [<0>] __arm64_sys_read+0x28/0x3c
| [<0>] invoke_syscall+0x50/0x120
| [<0>] el0_svc_common.constprop.0+0xc4/0xd4
| [<0>] do_el0_svc+0x30/0x9c
| [<0>] el0_svc+0x2c/0x54
| [<0>] el0t_64_sync_handler+0x1a8/0x1b0
| [<0>] el0t_64_sync+0x198/0x19c
| # echo function_graph > /sys/kernel/tracing/current_tracer
| # cat /proc/self/stack
| [<0>] proc_pid_stack+0xc4/0x140
| [<0>] proc_single_show+0x6c/0x120
| [<0>] seq_read_iter+0x240/0x4e0
| [<0>] seq_read+0xe8/0x140
| [<0>] vfs_read+0xb8/0x1e4
| [<0>] ksys_read+0x74/0x100
| [<0>] __arm64_sys_read+0x28/0x3c
| [<0>] invoke_syscall+0x50/0x120
| [<0>] el0_svc_common.constprop.0+0xc4/0xd4
| [<0>] do_el0_svc+0x30/0x9c
| [<0>] el0_svc+0x2c/0x54
| [<0>] el0t_64_sync_handler+0x1a8/0x1b0
| [<0>] el0t_64_sync+0x198/0x19c
Cc: <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@xxxxxxx>
Cc: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@xxxxxxx>
Cc: Madhavan T. Venkataraman <madvenka@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Mark Brown <broonie@xxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Will Deacon <will@xxxxxxxxxx>
Reviwed-by: Mark Brown <broonie@xxxxxxxxxx>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20210802164845.45506-3-mark.rutland@xxxxxxx
Signed-off-by: Will Deacon <will@xxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
arch/arm64/kernel/stacktrace.c | 2 +-
1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
--- a/arch/arm64/kernel/stacktrace.c
+++ b/arch/arm64/kernel/stacktrace.c
@@ -199,7 +199,7 @@ void show_stack(struct task_struct *tsk,
#ifdef CONFIG_STACKTRACE
-noinline void arch_stack_walk(stack_trace_consume_fn consume_entry,
+noinline notrace void arch_stack_walk(stack_trace_consume_fn consume_entry,
void *cookie, struct task_struct *task,
struct pt_regs *regs)
{
Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from mark.rutland@xxxxxxx are
queue-5.10/arm64-stacktrace-avoid-tracing-arch_stack_walk.patch
