[PATCH] perf: fix panic by disable ftrace on fault.c
From: 王贇
Date: Sun Sep 12 2021 - 23:31:00 EST
When running with ftrace function enabled, we observed panic
as below:
traps: PANIC: double fault, error_code: 0x0
[snip]
RIP: 0010:perf_swevent_get_recursion_context+0x0/0x70
[snip]
Call Trace:
<NMI>
perf_trace_buf_alloc+0x26/0xd0
perf_ftrace_function_call+0x18f/0x2e0
kernelmode_fixup_or_oops+0x5/0x120
__bad_area_nosemaphore+0x1b8/0x280
do_user_addr_fault+0x410/0x920
exc_page_fault+0x92/0x300
asm_exc_page_fault+0x1e/0x30
RIP: 0010:__get_user_nocheck_8+0x6/0x13
perf_callchain_user+0x266/0x2f0
get_perf_callchain+0x194/0x210
perf_callchain+0xa3/0xc0
perf_prepare_sample+0xa5/0xa60
perf_event_output_forward+0x7b/0x1b0
__perf_event_overflow+0x67/0x120
perf_swevent_overflow+0xcb/0x110
perf_swevent_event+0xb0/0xf0
perf_tp_event+0x292/0x410
perf_trace_run_bpf_submit+0x87/0xc0
perf_trace_lock_acquire+0x12b/0x170
lock_acquire+0x1bf/0x2e0
perf_output_begin+0x70/0x4b0
perf_log_throttle+0xe2/0x1a0
perf_event_nmi_handler+0x30/0x50
nmi_handle+0xba/0x2a0
default_do_nmi+0x45/0xf0
exc_nmi+0x155/0x170
end_repeat_nmi+0x16/0x55
According to the trace we know the story is like this, the NMI
triggered perf IRQ throttling and call perf_log_throttle(),
which triggered the swevent overflow, and the overflow process
do perf_callchain_user() which triggered a user PF, and the PF
process triggered perf ftrace which finally lead into a suspected
stack overflow.
This patch disable ftrace on fault.c, which help to avoid the panic.
Reported-by: Abaci <abaci@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Michael Wang <yun.wang@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
arch/x86/mm/Makefile | 4 ++++
1 file changed, 4 insertions(+)
diff --git a/arch/x86/mm/Makefile b/arch/x86/mm/Makefile
index 5864219..1dbdca5 100644
--- a/arch/x86/mm/Makefile
+++ b/arch/x86/mm/Makefile
@@ -1,5 +1,9 @@
# SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0
# Kernel does not boot with instrumentation of tlb.c and mem_encrypt*.c
+
+# Disable ftrace to avoid stack overflow.
+CFLAGS_REMOVE_fault.o = $(CC_FLAGS_FTRACE)
+
KCOV_INSTRUMENT_tlb.o := n
KCOV_INSTRUMENT_mem_encrypt.o := n
KCOV_INSTRUMENT_mem_encrypt_identity.o := n
--
1.8.3.1