Re: [PATCH] proc: Disable /proc/$pid/wchan

[Mark Rutland]

On Thu, Sep 23, 2021 at 06:16:16PM -0700, Kees Cook wrote:
> On Thu, Sep 23, 2021 at 05:22:30PM -0700, Vito Caputo wrote:
> > Instead of unwinding stacks maybe the kernel should be sticking an
> > entrypoint address in the current task struct for get_wchan() to
> > access, whenever userspace enters the kernel?
> 
> wchan is supposed to show where the kernel is at the instant the
> get_wchan() happens. (i.e. recording it at syscall entry would just
> always show syscall entry.)

It's supposed to show where a blocked task is blocked; the "wait
channel".

I'd wanted to remove get_wchan since it requires cross-task stack
walking, which is generally painful. 

We could instead have the scheduler entrypoints snapshot their caller
into a field in task_struct. If there are sufficiently few callers, that
could be an inline wrapper that passes a __func__ string. Otherwise, we
still need to symbolize.

Thanks,
Mark.