linux/arch/x86/entry
Josh Poimboeuf ff3f7e2475 x86/entry: Fix the end of the stack for newly forked tasks
When unwinding a task, the end of the stack is always at the same offset
right below the saved pt_regs, regardless of which syscall was used to
enter the kernel.  That convention allows the unwinder to verify that a
stack is sane.

However, newly forked tasks don't always follow that convention, as
reported by the following unwinder warning seen by Dave Jones:

  WARNING: kernel stack frame pointer at ffffc90001443f30 in kworker/u8:8:30468 has bad value           (null)

The warning was due to the following call chain:

  (ftrace handler)
  call_usermodehelper_exec_async+0x5/0x140
  ret_from_fork+0x22/0x30

The problem is that ret_from_fork() doesn't create a stack frame before
calling other functions.  Fix that by carefully using the frame pointer
macros.

In addition to conforming to the end of stack convention, this also
makes related stack traces more sensible by making it clear to the user
that ret_from_fork() was involved.

Reported-by: Dave Jones <davej@codemonkey.org.uk>
Signed-off-by: Josh Poimboeuf <jpoimboe@redhat.com>
Cc: Andy Lutomirski <luto@amacapital.net>
Cc: Andy Lutomirski <luto@kernel.org>
Cc: Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de>
Cc: Brian Gerst <brgerst@gmail.com>
Cc: Denys Vlasenko <dvlasenk@redhat.com>
Cc: Dmitry Vyukov <dvyukov@google.com>
Cc: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Miroslav Benes <mbenes@suse.cz>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/8854cdaab980e9700a81e9ebf0d4238e4bbb68ef.1483978430.git.jpoimboe@redhat.com
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
2017-01-12 09:28:29 +01:00
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syscalls x86, pkeys: remove cruft from never-merged syscalls 2016-10-17 14:16:13 -07:00
vdso Merge branch 'timers-urgent-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip 2016-12-25 14:30:04 -08:00
vsyscall Merge branch 'next' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jmorris/linux-security 2016-07-29 17:38:46 -07:00
calling.h x86/entry/unwind: Create stack frames for saved interrupt registers 2016-10-21 09:26:03 +02:00
common.c Replace <asm/uaccess.h> with <linux/uaccess.h> globally 2016-12-24 11:46:01 -08:00
entry_32.S x86/entry: Fix the end of the stack for newly forked tasks 2017-01-12 09:28:29 +01:00
entry_64_compat.S x86/asm/entry/32: Simplify pushes of zeroed pt_regs->REGs 2016-05-03 08:19:40 +02:00
entry_64.S x86/entry: Fix the end of the stack for newly forked tasks 2017-01-12 09:28:29 +01:00
Makefile x86/build: Fix build with older GCC versions 2016-10-25 11:44:25 +02:00
syscall_32.c x86/syscalls: Add syscall entry qualifiers 2016-01-29 09:46:38 +01:00
syscall_64.c x86/entry/64: Always run ptregs-using syscalls on the slow path 2016-01-29 09:46:38 +01:00
thunk_32.S x86: move exports to actual definitions 2016-08-07 23:47:15 -04:00
thunk_64.S x86: move exports to actual definitions 2016-08-07 23:47:15 -04:00