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Will Deacon 87676cfca1 arm64: vdso: Disable dwarf unwinding through the sigreturn trampoline 
Commit 7e9f5e6629 ("arm64: vdso: Add --eh-frame-hdr to ldflags") results
in a .eh_frame_hdr section for the vDSO, which in turn causes the libgcc
unwinder to unwind out of signal handlers using the .eh_frame information
populated by our .cfi directives. In conjunction with a4eb355a3f
("arm64: vdso: Fix CFI directives in sigreturn trampoline"), this has
been shown to cause segmentation faults originating from within the
unwinder during thread cancellation:

 | Thread 14 "virtio-net-rx" received signal SIGSEGV, Segmentation fault.
 | 0x0000000000435e24 in uw_frame_state_for ()
 | (gdb) bt
 | #0  0x0000000000435e24 in uw_frame_state_for ()
 | #1  0x0000000000436e88 in _Unwind_ForcedUnwind_Phase2 ()
 | #2  0x00000000004374d8 in _Unwind_ForcedUnwind ()
 | #3  0x0000000000428400 in __pthread_unwind (buf=<optimized out>) at unwind.c:121
 | #4  0x0000000000429808 in __do_cancel () at ./pthreadP.h:304
 | #5  sigcancel_handler (sig=32, si=0xffff33c743f0, ctx=<optimized out>) at nptl-init.c:200
 | #6  sigcancel_handler (sig=<optimized out>, si=0xffff33c743f0, ctx=<optimized out>) at nptl-init.c:165
 | #7  <signal handler called>
 | #8  futex_wait_cancelable (private=0, expected=0, futex_word=0x3890b708) at ../sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/futex-internal.h:88

After considerable bashing of heads, it appears that our CFI directives
for unwinding out of the sigreturn trampoline are only processed by libgcc
when both a .eh_frame_hdr section is present *and* the mysterious NOP is
covered by an entry in .eh_frame. With both of these now in place, it has
highlighted that our CFI directives are not comprehensive enough to
restore the stack pointer of the interrupted context. This results in libgcc
falling back to an arm64-specific unwinder after computing a bogus PC value
from the unwind tables. The unwinder promptly dereferences this bogus address
in an attempt to see if the pointed-to instruction sequence looks like
the sigreturn trampoline.

Restore the old unwind behaviour, which relied solely on heuristics in
the unwinder, by removing the .eh_frame_hdr section from the vDSO and
commenting out the insufficient CFI directives for now. Add comments to
explain the current, miserable state of affairs.

Cc: Tamas Zsoldos <tamas.zsoldos@arm.com>
Cc: Szabolcs Nagy <szabolcs.nagy@arm.com>
Cc: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com>
Cc: Daniel Kiss <daniel.kiss@arm.com>
Acked-by: Dave Martin <Dave.Martin@arm.com>
Reviewed-by: Vincenzo Frascino <vincenzo.frascino@arm.com>
Reviewed-by: Ard Biesheuvel <ardb@kernel.org>
Reported-by: Ard Biesheuvel <ardb@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Will Deacon <will@kernel.org>
2020-06-23 14:47:03 +01:00
arch arm64: vdso: Disable dwarf unwinding through the sigreturn trampoline 2020-06-23 14:47:03 +01:00
block Kbuild updates for v5.8 (2nd) 2020-06-13 13:29:16 -07:00
certs .gitignore: add SPDX License Identifier 2020-03-25 11:50:48 +01:00
crypto Merge branch 'rwonce/rework' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/will/linux 2020-06-10 14:46:54 -07:00
Documentation docs/arm64: Fix typo'd #define in sve.rst 2020-06-15 13:17:43 +01:00
drivers Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/netdev/net 2020-06-13 16:27:13 -07:00
fs for-5.8-part2-tag 2020-06-14 09:47:25 -07:00
include Add additional LSM hooks for SafeSetID 2020-06-14 11:39:31 -07:00
init Kbuild updates for v5.8 (2nd) 2020-06-13 13:29:16 -07:00
ipc mmap locking API: use coccinelle to convert mmap_sem rwsem call sites 2020-06-09 09:39:14 -07:00
kernel Add additional LSM hooks for SafeSetID 2020-06-14 11:39:31 -07:00
lib Kbuild updates for v5.8 (2nd) 2020-06-13 13:29:16 -07:00
LICENSES LICENSES: Rename other to deprecated 2019-05-03 06:34:32 -06:00
mm Kbuild updates for v5.8 (2nd) 2020-06-13 13:29:16 -07:00
net Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/netdev/net 2020-06-13 16:27:13 -07:00
samples binderfs: add gitignore for generated sample program 2020-06-13 13:41:24 -07:00
scripts Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/netdev/net 2020-06-13 16:27:13 -07:00
security Add additional LSM hooks for SafeSetID 2020-06-14 11:39:31 -07:00
sound Kbuild updates for v5.8 (2nd) 2020-06-13 13:29:16 -07:00
tools Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/netdev/net 2020-06-13 16:27:13 -07:00
usr bpfilter: match bit size of bpfilter_umh to that of the kernel 2020-05-17 18:52:01 +09:00
virt MIPS: 2020-06-12 11:05:52 -07:00
.clang-format block: add bio_for_each_bvec_all() 2020-05-25 11:25:24 +02:00
.cocciconfig
.get_maintainer.ignore Opt out of scripts/get_maintainer.pl 2019-05-16 10:53:40 -07:00
.gitattributes .gitattributes: use 'dts' diff driver for dts files 2019-12-04 19:44:11 -08:00
.gitignore modpost: generate vmlinux.symvers and reuse it for the second modpost 2020-06-06 23:38:12 +09:00
.mailmap A fair amount of stuff this time around, dominated by yet another massive 2020-06-01 15:45:27 -07:00
COPYING COPYING: state that all contributions really are covered by this file 2020-02-10 13:32:20 -08:00
CREDITS mailmap: change email for Ricardo Ribalda 2020-05-25 18:59:59 -06:00
Kbuild kbuild: rename hostprogs-y/always to hostprogs/always-y 2020-02-04 01:53:07 +09:00
Kconfig kbuild: ensure full rebuild when the compiler is updated 2020-05-12 13:28:33 +09:00
MAINTAINERS Merge branch 'i2c/for-5.8' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/wsa/linux 2020-06-13 13:12:38 -07:00
Makefile Linux 5.8-rc1 2020-06-14 12:45:04 -07:00
README Drop all 00-INDEX files from Documentation/ 2018-09-09 15:08:58 -06:00

README 

Linux kernel
============

There are several guides for kernel developers and users. These guides can
be rendered in a number of formats, like HTML and PDF. Please read
Documentation/admin-guide/README.rst first.

In order to build the documentation, use ``make htmldocs`` or
``make pdfdocs``.  The formatted documentation can also be read online at:

    https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/

There are various text files in the Documentation/ subdirectory,
several of them using the Restructured Text markup notation.

Please read the Documentation/process/changes.rst file, as it contains the
requirements for building and running the kernel, and information about
the problems which may result by upgrading your kernel.