[PATCH 05/19] x86/dumpstack: fix function graph tracing stack dump reliability issues

From: Josh Poimboeuf
Date: Thu Jul 21 2016 - 17:27:10 EST


When function graph tracing is enabled for a function, its return
address on the stack is replaced with the address of an ftrace handler
(return_to_handler). When dumping the stack of a task with graph
tracing enabled, there are some subtle bugs:

- The fake return_to_handler() address can be reported as reliable.
Instead, because it's not the real caller, it should be considered
unreliable.

- In print_context_stack(), the real caller's return address is always
reported as reliable, even if the return_to_handler() address wasn't
referred to by a frame pointer.

In addition to fixing these bugs, convert print_ftrace_graph_addr() to a
more generic function which can be used outside of dump_trace()
callbacks.

Signed-off-by: Josh Poimboeuf <jpoimboe@xxxxxxxxxx>
---
arch/x86/include/asm/stacktrace.h | 13 ++++++++++
arch/x86/kernel/dumpstack.c | 50 +++++++++++++++++----------------------
2 files changed, 35 insertions(+), 28 deletions(-)

diff --git a/arch/x86/include/asm/stacktrace.h b/arch/x86/include/asm/stacktrace.h
index 6f65995..5d3d258 100644
--- a/arch/x86/include/asm/stacktrace.h
+++ b/arch/x86/include/asm/stacktrace.h
@@ -14,6 +14,19 @@ extern int kstack_depth_to_print;
struct thread_info;
struct stacktrace_ops;

+#ifdef CONFIG_FUNCTION_GRAPH_TRACER
+
+unsigned long
+ftrace_graph_ret_addr(struct task_struct *task, int *idx, unsigned long addr);
+
+#else
+static inline unsigned long
+ftrace_graph_ret_addr(struct task_struct *task, int *idx, unsigned long addr)
+{
+ return addr;
+}
+#endif /* CONFIG_FUNCTION_GRAPH_TRACER */
+
typedef unsigned long (*walk_stack_t)(struct task_struct *task,
unsigned long *stack,
unsigned long bp,
diff --git a/arch/x86/kernel/dumpstack.c b/arch/x86/kernel/dumpstack.c
index 692eecae..0a8694b 100644
--- a/arch/x86/kernel/dumpstack.c
+++ b/arch/x86/kernel/dumpstack.c
@@ -40,36 +40,25 @@ void printk_address(unsigned long address)
}

#ifdef CONFIG_FUNCTION_GRAPH_TRACER
-static void
-print_ftrace_graph_addr(unsigned long addr, void *data,
- const struct stacktrace_ops *ops,
- struct task_struct *task, int *graph)
+unsigned long
+ftrace_graph_ret_addr(struct task_struct *task, int *idx, unsigned long addr)
{
- unsigned long ret_addr;
- int index;
+ int task_idx;

if (addr != (unsigned long)return_to_handler)
- return;
+ return addr;

- index = task->curr_ret_stack;
+ task_idx = task->curr_ret_stack;

- if (!task->ret_stack || index < *graph)
- return;
+ if (!task->ret_stack || task_idx < *idx)
+ return addr;

- index -= *graph;
- ret_addr = task->ret_stack[index].ret;
+ task_idx -= *idx;
+ (*idx)++;

- ops->address(data, ret_addr, 1);
-
- (*graph)++;
+ return task->ret_stack[task_idx].ret;
}
-#else
-static inline void
-print_ftrace_graph_addr(unsigned long addr, void *data,
- const struct stacktrace_ops *ops,
- struct task_struct *task, int *graph)
-{ }
-#endif
+#endif /* CONFIG_FUNCTION_GRAPH_TRACER */

/*
* x86-64 can have up to three kernel stacks:
@@ -108,18 +97,23 @@ print_context_stack(struct task_struct *task,
stack = (unsigned long *)task_stack_page(task);

while (valid_stack_ptr(task, stack, sizeof(*stack), end)) {
- unsigned long addr;
+ unsigned long addr = *stack;

addr = *stack;
if (__kernel_text_address(addr)) {
+ int reliable = 0;
+ unsigned long real_addr;
+
if ((unsigned long) stack == bp + sizeof(long)) {
- ops->address(data, addr, 1);
+ reliable = 1;
frame = frame->next_frame;
bp = (unsigned long) frame;
- } else {
- ops->address(data, addr, 0);
}
- print_ftrace_graph_addr(addr, data, ops, task, graph);
+
+ real_addr = ftrace_graph_ret_addr(task, graph, addr);
+ if (addr != real_addr)
+ ops->address(data, addr, 0);
+ ops->address(data, real_addr, reliable);
}
stack++;
}
@@ -142,11 +136,11 @@ print_context_stack_bp(struct task_struct *task,
if (!__kernel_text_address(addr))
break;

+ addr = ftrace_graph_ret_addr(task, graph, addr);
if (ops->address(data, addr, 1))
break;
frame = frame->next_frame;
ret_addr = &frame->return_address;
- print_ftrace_graph_addr(addr, data, ops, task, graph);
}

return (unsigned long)frame;
--
2.7.4