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| author | Josh Poimboeuf <jpoimboe@redhat.com> | 2016-10-20 11:34:40 -0500 |
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| committer | Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org> | 2016-10-21 09:26:03 +0200 |
| commit | 946c191161cef10c667b5ee3179db1714fa5b7c0 (patch) | |
| tree | 0b939091e3aa93f5699c256418fdec5d3a7c1283 /arch/x86/entry/entry_64.S | |
| parent | 29a6d7964d6853f5bcd84dfb92c074fb41d00563 (diff) | |
x86/entry/unwind: Create stack frames for saved interrupt registers
With frame pointers, when a task is interrupted, its stack is no longer
completely reliable because the function could have been interrupted
before it had a chance to save the previous frame pointer on the stack.
So the caller of the interrupted function could get skipped by a stack
trace.
This is problematic for live patching, which needs to know whether a
stack trace of a sleeping task can be relied upon. There's currently no
way to detect if a sleeping task was interrupted by a page fault
exception or preemption before it went to sleep.
Another issue is that when dumping the stack of an interrupted task, the
unwinder has no way of knowing where the saved pt_regs registers are, so
it can't print them.
This solves those issues by encoding the pt_regs pointer in the frame
pointer on entry from an interrupt or an exception.
This patch also updates the unwinder to be able to decode it, because
otherwise the unwinder would be broken by this change.
Note that this causes a change in the behavior of the unwinder: each
instance of a pt_regs on the stack is now considered a "frame". So
callers of unwind_get_return_address() will now get an occasional
'regs->ip' address that would have previously been skipped over.
Suggested-by: Andy Lutomirski <luto@amacapital.net>
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/8b9f84a21e39d249049e0547b559ff8da0df0988.1476973742.git.jpoimboe@redhat.com
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'arch/x86/entry/entry_64.S')
| -rw-r--r-- | arch/x86/entry/entry_64.S | 10 |
1 files changed, 7 insertions, 3 deletions
diff --git a/arch/x86/entry/entry_64.S b/arch/x86/entry/entry_64.S index ef766a358b37..65fad8a63cd0 100644 --- a/arch/x86/entry/entry_64.S +++ b/arch/x86/entry/entry_64.S @@ -469,6 +469,7 @@ END(irq_entries_start) ALLOC_PT_GPREGS_ON_STACK SAVE_C_REGS SAVE_EXTRA_REGS + ENCODE_FRAME_POINTER testb $3, CS(%rsp) jz 1f @@ -985,6 +986,7 @@ ENTRY(xen_failsafe_callback) ALLOC_PT_GPREGS_ON_STACK SAVE_C_REGS SAVE_EXTRA_REGS + ENCODE_FRAME_POINTER jmp error_exit END(xen_failsafe_callback) @@ -1028,6 +1030,7 @@ ENTRY(paranoid_entry) cld SAVE_C_REGS 8 SAVE_EXTRA_REGS 8 + ENCODE_FRAME_POINTER 8 movl $1, %ebx movl $MSR_GS_BASE, %ecx rdmsr @@ -1075,6 +1078,7 @@ ENTRY(error_entry) cld SAVE_C_REGS 8 SAVE_EXTRA_REGS 8 + ENCODE_FRAME_POINTER 8 xorl %ebx, %ebx testb $3, CS+8(%rsp) jz .Lerror_kernelspace @@ -1257,6 +1261,7 @@ ENTRY(nmi) pushq %r13 /* pt_regs->r13 */ pushq %r14 /* pt_regs->r14 */ pushq %r15 /* pt_regs->r15 */ + ENCODE_FRAME_POINTER /* * At this point we no longer need to worry about stack damage @@ -1270,11 +1275,10 @@ ENTRY(nmi) /* * Return back to user mode. We must *not* do the normal exit - * work, because we don't want to enable interrupts. Fortunately, - * do_nmi doesn't modify pt_regs. + * work, because we don't want to enable interrupts. */ SWAPGS - jmp restore_c_regs_and_iret + jmp restore_regs_and_iret .Lnmi_from_kernel: /* |