Re: [PATCH] riscv: stacktrace: fix dump_backtrace/walk_stackframe with NULL task

From: Changbin Du
Date: Mon Jun 28 2021 - 19:20:41 EST


On Mon, Jun 28, 2021 at 01:44:04PM +0800, Jisheng Zhang wrote:
> On Sun, 27 Jun 2021 17:26:59 +0800
> Changbin Du <changbin.du@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
>
> >
> >
> > Some places try to show backtrace with NULL task, and expect the task is
> > 'current'. For example, dump_stack()->show_stack(NULL,...). So the
> > stacktrace code should take care of this case.
>
> I fixed this issue one week ago:
>
> http://lists.infradead.org/pipermail/linux-riscv/2021-June/007258.html
>
Good to know. Thanks!

> >
> > Here is an oops caused by this issue when accessing the NULL task.
> >
> > [ 15.180813] Kernel panic - not syncing: No working init found. Try passing init= option to kernel. See Linux Documentation/admin-guide/init.rst for guidance.
> > [ 15.182382] CPU: 3 PID: 1 Comm: swapper/0 Not tainted 5.13.0-rc7-00111-g625acffd7ae2-dirty #18
> > [ 15.183431] Hardware name: riscv-virtio,qemu (DT)
> > [ 15.184253] Call Trace:
> > [ 15.223617] Unable to handle kernel paging request at virtual address 0000000000001590
> > [ 15.267378] Oops [#1]
> > [ 15.268215] Modules linked in:
> > [ 15.272027] CPU: 3 PID: 1 Comm: swapper/0 Not tainted 5.13.0-rc7-00111-g625acffd7ae2-dirty #18
> > [ 15.273997] Hardware name: riscv-virtio,qemu (DT)
> > [ 15.275134] epc : walk_stackframe+0xc4/0xdc
> > [ 15.280146] ra : dump_backtrace+0x30/0x38
> > [ 15.280799] epc : ffffffff8000597e ra : ffffffff800059c6 sp : ffffffe002383d60
> > [ 15.281622] gp : ffffffff8179ad18 tp : ffffffe002378000 t0 : ffffffff81bc1a3f
> > [ 15.282574] t1 : 0000000000000001 t2 : 0000000000000000 s0 : ffffffe002383dc0
> > [ 15.283782] s1 : ffffffff812b7d18 a0 : 0000000000001000 a1 : 0000000000000000
> > [ 15.285115] a2 : ffffffff807ec668 a3 : ffffffff812b7d18 a4 : c76c00cabf08b500
> > [ 15.286213] a5 : 0000000000001000 a6 : 000000001a9ef260 a7 : 0000000000000000
> > [ 15.287317] s2 : 0000000000000000 s3 : 0000000000000000 s4 : 0000000000000000
> > [ 15.288323] s5 : ffffffff807ec668 s6 : ffffffff812b7d18 s7 : 0000000000000000
> > [ 15.289530] s8 : 0000000000000000 s9 : 0000000000000000 s10: 0000000000000000
> > [ 15.290995] s11: 0000000000000000 t3 : 0000000000000001 t4 : 0000000000000000
> > [ 15.292465] t5 : 206f74206e6f6974 t6 : ffffffe002383b28
> > [ 15.293859] status: 0000000000000100 badaddr: 0000000000001590 cause: 000000000000000d
> > [ 15.296035] [<ffffffff8000597e>] walk_stackframe+0xc4/0xdc
> > [ 15.297342] [<ffffffff800059c6>] dump_backtrace+0x30/0x38
> > [ 15.298333] [<ffffffff807ec6e0>] show_stack+0x40/0x4c
> > [ 15.299765] [<ffffffff807f07ac>] dump_stack+0x7c/0x96
> > [ 15.300553] [<ffffffff807ec8be>] panic+0x118/0x300
> > [ 15.301147] [<ffffffff807f61e8>] kernel_init+0x12c/0x138
> > [ 15.302056] [<ffffffff80003a22>] ret_from_exception+0x0/0xc
> > [ 15.338628] ---[ end trace 0a3fa0cc7f3393cd ]---
> > [ 15.339919] note: swapper/0[1] exited with preempt_count 1
> > [ 15.341995] Kernel panic - not syncing: Attempted to kill init! exitcode=0x0000000b
> > [ 15.343889] SMP: stopping secondary CPUs
> > [ 16.802836] SMP: failed to stop secondary CPUs 0-3
> > [ 16.806264] ---[ end Kernel panic - not syncing: Attempted to kill init! exitcode=0x0000000b ]---
> >
> > This patch fixes it by setting the task to current if it's NULL before
> > accessing it.
> >
> > Signed-off-by: Changbin Du <changbin.du@xxxxxxxxx>
> > Fixes: 5d8544e2d0 ("RISC-V: Generic library routines and assembly")
>
> Hmm, this fixes tag should be
> Fixes: eac2f3059e02 ("riscv: stacktrace: fix the riscv stacktrace when CONFIG_FRAME_POINTER enabled"
>
>
> > ---
> > arch/riscv/kernel/stacktrace.c | 6 ++++++
> > 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+)
> >
> > diff --git a/arch/riscv/kernel/stacktrace.c b/arch/riscv/kernel/stacktrace.c
> > index bde85fc53357..788b65eba965 100644
> > --- a/arch/riscv/kernel/stacktrace.c
> > +++ b/arch/riscv/kernel/stacktrace.c
> > @@ -23,6 +23,9 @@ void notrace walk_stackframe(struct task_struct *task, struct pt_regs *regs,
> > {
> > unsigned long fp, sp, pc;
> >
> > + if (!task)
> > + task = current;
> > +
> > if (regs) {
> > fp = frame_pointer(regs);
> > sp = user_stack_pointer(regs);
> > @@ -73,6 +76,9 @@ void notrace walk_stackframe(struct task_struct *task,
> > unsigned long sp, pc;
> > unsigned long *ksp;
> >
> > + if (!task)
> > + task = current;
> > +
> > if (regs) {
> > sp = user_stack_pointer(regs);
> > pc = instruction_pointer(regs);
> > --
> > 2.30.2
> >
> >
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Cheers,
Changbin Du