Re: [PATCH] x86/mm: annotate no_context with UNWIND_HINTS

From: Nathan Chancellor
Date: Mon Oct 15 2018 - 01:17:12 EST


On Sun, Oct 14, 2018 at 08:43:18PM -0700, Andy Lutomirski wrote:
> On Sun, Oct 14, 2018 at 5:37 PM Nick Desaulniers
> <nick.desaulniers@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> >
> > Fixes the objtool warning:
> > arch/x86/mm/fault.o: warning: objtool: no_context()+0x220: unreachable
> > instruction
> >
> > Link: https://github.com/ClangBuiltLinux/linux/issues/204
> > Signed-off-by: Nick Desaulniers <nick.desaulniers@xxxxxxxxx>
> > ---
> > arch/x86/mm/fault.c | 6 ++++--
> > 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
> >
> > diff --git a/arch/x86/mm/fault.c b/arch/x86/mm/fault.c
> > index 47bebfe6efa7..057d2178fa19 100644
> > --- a/arch/x86/mm/fault.c
> > +++ b/arch/x86/mm/fault.c
> > @@ -760,9 +760,11 @@ no_context(struct pt_regs *regs, unsigned long error_code,
> > * and then double-fault, though, because we're likely to
> > * break the console driver and lose most of the stack dump.
> > */
> > - asm volatile ("movq %[stack], %%rsp\n\t"
> > + asm volatile (UNWIND_HINT_SAVE
> > + "movq %[stack], %%rsp\n\t"
> > "call handle_stack_overflow\n\t"
> > - "1: jmp 1b"
> > + "1: jmp 1b\n\t"
> > + UNWIND_HINT_RESTORE
> > : ASM_CALL_CONSTRAINT
> > : "D" ("kernel stack overflow (page fault)"),
> > "S" (regs), "d" (address),
>
> NAK. Just below this snippet is unreachable();
>
> Can you reply with objtool -dr output on a problematic fault.o? Josh,
> it *looks* like annotate_unreachable() should be doing the right
> thing, but something is clearly busted.
>
> Also, shouldn't compiler-clang.h contain a reasonable definition of
> unreachable()?
>
> --Andy

Hi Andy,

Did you mean 'objdump -dr'? If so, here you go (rather long, sorry if I
should have pasted it here instead):
https://gist.github.com/nathanchance/f038bb0a6653b975bb8a4e64fcd5503e

Nathan