Re: [PATCH 0/4] powerpc/livepatch: reliable stack unwinder fixes

[Jiri Kosina]

On Tue, 22 Jan 2019, Joe Lawrence wrote:

> This patchset fixes a false negative report (ie, unreliable) from the
> ppc64 reliable stack unwinder, discussed here [1] when it may
> inadvertently trip over a stale exception marker left on the stack.
> 
> The first two patches fix this bug.  Nicolai's change clears the marker
> from the stack when an exception is finished.  The next patch modifies
> the unwinder to only look for such on stack elements when the ABI
> guarantees that they will actually be initialized.
> 
> The final two patches consist of code cleanups that Nicolai and I
> spotted during the development of the fixes.
> 
> Testing included re-running the original test scenario (loading a
> livepatch module on ppc64le) on a 5.0.0-rc2 kernel as well as a RHEL-7
> backport.  I ran internal tests on the RHEL-7 backport and no new test
> failures were introduced.  I believe that Nicolai has done the same
> with respect to the first patch.
> 
> [1] https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/7f468285-b149-37e2-e782-c9e538b997a9@xxxxxxxxxx/
> 
> Joe Lawrence (3):
>   powerpc/livepatch: relax reliable stack tracer checks for first-frame
>   powerpc/livepatch: small cleanups in save_stack_trace_tsk_reliable()
>   powerpc/livepatch: return -ERRNO values in
>     save_stack_trace_tsk_reliable()
> 
> Nicolai Stange (1):
>   powerpc/64s: Clear on-stack exception marker upon exception return

Michael, are you fine with this going through LP tree, or do you plan to 
take it through yours?

Thanks,

-- 
Jiri Kosina
SUSE Labs