[tip:x86/asm] x86/unwind: Warn on bad frame pointer

From: tip-bot for Josh Poimboeuf
Date: Thu Oct 27 2016 - 03:40:10 EST


Commit-ID: c32c47c68a0ae701088c5b2c3798856ed16746ae
Gitweb: http://git.kernel.org/tip/c32c47c68a0ae701088c5b2c3798856ed16746ae
Author: Josh Poimboeuf <jpoimboe@xxxxxxxxxx>
AuthorDate: Wed, 26 Oct 2016 10:41:48 -0500
Committer: Ingo Molnar <mingo@xxxxxxxxxx>
CommitDate: Thu, 27 Oct 2016 08:32:37 +0200

x86/unwind: Warn on bad frame pointer

Detect situations in the unwinder where the frame pointer refers to a
bad address, and print an appropriate warning.

Use printk_deferred_once() because the unwinder can be called with the
console lock by lockdep via save_stack_trace().

Signed-off-by: Josh Poimboeuf <jpoimboe@xxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Andy Lutomirski <luto@xxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Borislav Petkov <bp@xxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Brian Gerst <brgerst@xxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Denys Vlasenko <dvlasenk@xxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@xxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/03c888f6f7414d54fa56b393ea25482be6899b5f.1477496147.git.jpoimboe@xxxxxxxxxx
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@xxxxxxxxxx>
---
arch/x86/kernel/unwind_frame.c | 18 ++++++++++++++++--
1 file changed, 16 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/arch/x86/kernel/unwind_frame.c b/arch/x86/kernel/unwind_frame.c
index 5795427..9be9a8f 100644
--- a/arch/x86/kernel/unwind_frame.c
+++ b/arch/x86/kernel/unwind_frame.c
@@ -123,8 +123,17 @@ bool unwind_next_frame(struct unwind_state *state)
}

/* make sure the next frame's data is accessible */
- if (!update_stack_state(state, next_frame, next_len))
- return false;
+ if (!update_stack_state(state, next_frame, next_len)) {
+ /*
+ * Don't warn on bad regs->bp. An interrupt in entry code
+ * might cause a false positive warning.
+ */
+ if (state->regs)
+ goto the_end;
+
+ goto bad_address;
+ }
+
/* move to the next frame */
if (regs) {
state->regs = regs;
@@ -136,6 +145,11 @@ bool unwind_next_frame(struct unwind_state *state)

return true;

+bad_address:
+ printk_deferred_once(KERN_WARNING
+ "WARNING: kernel stack frame pointer at %p in %s:%d has bad value %p\n",
+ state->bp, state->task->comm,
+ state->task->pid, next_bp);
the_end:
state->stack_info.type = STACK_TYPE_UNKNOWN;
return false;