[RFC PATCH v1 09/16] unwind_user/sframe: Enable archs with encoded SFrame CFA offsets

From: Jens Remus
Date: Thu Jul 10 2025 - 12:38:35 EST


Enable architectures, such as s390, which store SFrame CFA offset values
encoded, to e.g. make (better) use of unsigned 8-bit SFrame offsets.

Signed-off-by: Jens Remus <jremus@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
include/asm-generic/unwind_user_sframe.h | 11 +++++++++++
kernel/unwind/sframe.c | 1 +
2 files changed, 12 insertions(+)

diff --git a/include/asm-generic/unwind_user_sframe.h b/include/asm-generic/unwind_user_sframe.h
index 8cef3e0857b6..cea0410a259a 100644
--- a/include/asm-generic/unwind_user_sframe.h
+++ b/include/asm-generic/unwind_user_sframe.h
@@ -5,6 +5,16 @@
#include <linux/unwind_user_types.h>
#include <linux/types.h>

+/**
+ * generic_sframe_cfa_offset_decode - Decode SFrame CFA offset.
+ *
+ * Returns the decoded SFrame CFA offset value.
+ */
+static inline s32 generic_sframe_cfa_offset_decode(s32 offset)
+{
+ return offset;
+}
+
/**
* generic_sframe_set_frame_reginfo - Populate info to unwind FP/RA register
* from SFrame offset.
@@ -48,6 +58,7 @@ static inline s32 generic_sframe_sp_val_off(void)
return 0;
}

+#define sframe_cfa_offset_decode generic_sframe_cfa_offset_decode
#define sframe_set_frame_reginfo generic_sframe_set_frame_reginfo
#define sframe_sp_val_off generic_sframe_sp_val_off

diff --git a/kernel/unwind/sframe.c b/kernel/unwind/sframe.c
index 43ef3a8c4c26..e8658401a286 100644
--- a/kernel/unwind/sframe.c
+++ b/kernel/unwind/sframe.c
@@ -220,6 +220,7 @@ static __always_inline int __read_fre(struct sframe_section *sec,

UNSAFE_GET_USER_INC(cfa_off, cur, offset_size, Efault);
offset_count--;
+ cfa_off = sframe_cfa_offset_decode(cfa_off);

ra_off = sec->ra_off;
if (!ra_off && offset_count) {
--
2.48.1