[PATCH v5 11/32] x86/dumpstack: Try harder to get a call trace on stack overflow

From: Andy Lutomirski
Date: Mon Jul 11 2016 - 17:00:51 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.

Reviewed-by: Josh Poimboeuf <jpoimboe@xxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Andy Lutomirski <luto@xxxxxxxxxx>
---
arch/x86/kernel/dumpstack.c | 10 +++++++++-
1 file changed, 9 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/arch/x86/kernel/dumpstack.c b/arch/x86/kernel/dumpstack.c
index 4eefee06f6fd..de8242d8bb61 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 +98,14 @@ 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_page(task) - (unsigned long)stack <
+ PAGE_SIZE)
+ stack = (unsigned long *)task_stack_page(task);
+
while (valid_stack_ptr(task, stack, sizeof(*stack), end)) {
unsigned long addr;

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