Re: [PATCH] Fix of stack dump in {SOFT|HARD}IRQs

From: Andrew Morton
Date: Fri Oct 01 2004 - 17:16:19 EST


Kirill Korotaev <dev@xxxxx> wrote:
>
> This patch fixes incorrect check for stack ptr in
> show_trace()->valid_stack_ptr(). When called from hardirq/softirq
> show_trace() prints "Stack pointer is garbage, not printing trace"
> message instead of call traces.

Thanks for fixing that up.

In future, please ensure that patches are in `patch -p1' form, as described
in http://www.zip.com.au/~akpm/linux/patches/stuff/tpp.txt.

And please don't declare external functions in .c files - it defeats
compiler typechecking. I'll use the below fixup for that.

--- 25/arch/i386/kernel/irq.c~fix-of-stack-dump-in-soft-hardirqs-cleanup Fri Oct 1 15:05:24 2004
+++ 25-akpm/arch/i386/kernel/irq.c Fri Oct 1 15:05:45 2004
@@ -10,12 +10,14 @@
* io_apic.c.)
*/

-#include <asm/uaccess.h>
#include <linux/module.h>
#include <linux/seq_file.h>
#include <linux/interrupt.h>
#include <linux/kernel_stat.h>

+#include <asm/uaccess.h>
+#include <asm/hardirq.h>
+
#ifdef CONFIG_4KSTACKS
/*
* per-CPU IRQ handling contexts (thread information and stack)
diff -puN arch/i386/kernel/traps.c~fix-of-stack-dump-in-soft-hardirqs-cleanup arch/i386/kernel/traps.c
--- 25/arch/i386/kernel/traps.c~fix-of-stack-dump-in-soft-hardirqs-cleanup Fri Oct 1 15:05:24 2004
+++ 25-akpm/arch/i386/kernel/traps.c Fri Oct 1 15:06:01 2004
@@ -50,6 +50,7 @@
#include <asm/smp.h>
#include <asm/arch_hooks.h>
#include <asm/kdebug.h>
+#include <asm/hardirq.h>

#include <linux/irq.h>
#include <linux/module.h>
@@ -107,8 +108,6 @@ int register_die_notifier(struct notifie

static int valid_stack_ptr(struct task_struct *task, void *p)
{
- extern int is_irq_stack_ptr(struct task_struct *, void *);
-
if (is_irq_stack_ptr(task, p))
return 1;
if (p >= (void *)task->thread_info &&
diff -puN include/asm-i386/hardirq.h~fix-of-stack-dump-in-soft-hardirqs-cleanup include/asm-i386/hardirq.h
--- 25/include/asm-i386/hardirq.h~fix-of-stack-dump-in-soft-hardirqs-cleanup Fri Oct 1 15:05:24 2004
+++ 25-akpm/include/asm-i386/hardirq.h Fri Oct 1 15:06:29 2004
@@ -36,4 +36,7 @@ static inline void ack_bad_irq(unsigned
#endif
}

+struct task_struct;
+int is_irq_stack_ptr(struct task_struct *task, void *p);
+
#endif /* __ASM_HARDIRQ_H */
_

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