Re: [PATCH 1/1] stackdepot: ignore junk last entry in case of switch from user mode.

From: Dmitry Vyukov
Date: Wed Oct 11 2017 - 07:33:00 EST


On Wed, Oct 11, 2017 at 1:31 PM, Dmitry Vyukov <dvyukov@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On Wed, Oct 11, 2017 at 1:24 PM, Maninder Singh <maninder1.s@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>> Issue observed on ARM.
>>
>> Whenever there is switch from user mode, we end up with invalid last entry
>> with some user space address as below:-
>>
>> save_stack+0x40/0xec
>> __set_page_owner+0x2c/0x64
>> ....
>> ....
>> __handle_domain_irq+0x9c/0x130
>> gic_handle_irq+0x40/0x80
>> __irq_usr+0x4c/0x60
>> 0xb6507818
>>
>> So in this case last entry is not valid, which leads to allocated one more
>> new frame for stackdepot although having all above frames exactly same.
>>
>> (It increases depot_index drastically)
>>
>> So its better to ignore that last frame in case of switch.
>> save_stack+0x40/0xec
>> __set_page_owner+0x2c/0x64
>> ....
>> ....
>> __handle_domain_irq+0x9c/0x130
>> gic_handle_irq+0x40/0x80
>> __irq_usr+0x4c/0x60
>>
>> Signed-off-by: Vaneet Narang <v.narang@xxxxxxxxxxx>
>> Signed-off-by: Maninder Singh <maninder1.s@xxxxxxxxxxx>
>> ---
>> lib/stackdepot.c | 5 +++++
>> 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+)
>>
>> diff --git a/lib/stackdepot.c b/lib/stackdepot.c
>> index f87d138..bb35b2c 100644
>> --- a/lib/stackdepot.c
>> +++ b/lib/stackdepot.c
>> @@ -214,6 +214,11 @@ depot_stack_handle_t depot_save_stack(struct stack_trace *trace,
>> if (unlikely(trace->nr_entries == 0))
>> goto fast_exit;
>>
>> + if (trace->entries[trace->nr_entries - 1] < MODULES_VADDR) {
>
> I agree with general approach. But isn't kernel text below
> MODULES_VADDR on e.g. x86_64?
>
>> + trace->entries[trace->nr_entries - 1] = ULONG_MAX;
>
> Do we need this?
>
>> + trace->nr_entries--;
>> + }
>> +
>> hash = hash_stack(trace->entries, trace->nr_entries);
>> bucket = &stack_table[hash & STACK_HASH_MASK];


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