[PATCH v4 13/16] x86/dumpstack: Try harder to get a call trace on stack overflow
From: Andy Lutomirski
Date: Fri Jun 24 2016 - 00:24:58 EST
If we overflow the stack, print_context_stack will abort. Detect
this case and rewind back into the valid part of the stack so that
we can trace it.
Signed-off-by: Andy Lutomirski <luto@xxxxxxxxxx>
---
arch/x86/kernel/dumpstack.c | 9 ++++++++-
1 file changed, 8 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
diff --git a/arch/x86/kernel/dumpstack.c b/arch/x86/kernel/dumpstack.c
index 4592bc4ed3e1..4538f7ca9072 100644
--- a/arch/x86/kernel/dumpstack.c
+++ b/arch/x86/kernel/dumpstack.c
@@ -87,7 +87,7 @@ static inline int valid_stack_ptr(struct task_struct *task,
else
return 0;
}
- return p > t && p < t + THREAD_SIZE - size;
+ return p >= t && p < t + THREAD_SIZE - size;
}
unsigned long
@@ -98,6 +98,13 @@ print_context_stack(struct task_struct *task,
{
struct stack_frame *frame = (struct stack_frame *)bp;
+ /*
+ * If we overflowed the stack into a guard page, jump back to the
+ * bottom of the usable stack.
+ */
+ if ((unsigned long)task->stack - (unsigned long)stack < PAGE_SIZE)
+ stack = (unsigned long *)task->stack;
+
while (valid_stack_ptr(task, stack, sizeof(*stack), end)) {
unsigned long addr;
--
2.5.5