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authorMadhavan T. Venkataraman <madvenka@linux.microsoft.com>2021-05-10 12:00:26 +0100
committerWill Deacon <will@kernel.org>2021-05-25 18:53:29 +0100
commit7d7b720a4b8049446cffce870b1dd3ffa89d4b40 (patch)
treee7f26ca216c31adc6c5c44ad9793782d97831974 /arch/arm64/kernel/head.S
parentLinux 5.13-rc3 (diff)
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arm64: Implement stack trace termination record
Reliable stacktracing requires that we identify when a stacktrace is terminated early. We can do this by ensuring all tasks have a final frame record at a known location on their task stack, and checking that this is the final frame record in the chain. We'd like to use task_pt_regs(task)->stackframe as the final frame record, as this is already setup upon exception entry from EL0. For kernel tasks we need to consistently reserve the pt_regs and point x29 at this, which we can do with small changes to __primary_switched, __secondary_switched, and copy_process(). Since the final frame record must be at a specific location, we must create the final frame record in __primary_switched and __secondary_switched rather than leaving this to start_kernel and secondary_start_kernel. Thus, __primary_switched and __secondary_switched will now show up in stacktraces for the idle tasks. Since the final frame record is now identified by its location rather than by its contents, we identify it at the start of unwind_frame(), before we read any values from it. External debuggers may terminate the stack trace when FP == 0. In the pt_regs->stackframe, the PC is 0 as well. So, stack traces taken in the debugger may print an extra record 0x0 at the end. While this is not pretty, this does not do any harm. This is a small price to pay for having reliable stack trace termination in the kernel. That said, gdb does not show the extra record probably because it uses DWARF and not frame pointers for stack traces. Signed-off-by: Madhavan T. Venkataraman <madvenka@linux.microsoft.com> Reviewed-by: Mark Brown <broonie@kernel.org> [Mark: rebase, use ASM_BUG(), update comments, update commit message] Signed-off-by: Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@arm.com> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20210510110026.18061-1-mark.rutland@arm.com Signed-off-by: Will Deacon <will@kernel.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'arch/arm64/kernel/head.S')
-rw-r--r--arch/arm64/kernel/head.S25
1 files changed, 19 insertions, 6 deletions
diff --git a/arch/arm64/kernel/head.S b/arch/arm64/kernel/head.S
index 96873dfa67fd..cc2d45d54838 100644
--- a/arch/arm64/kernel/head.S
+++ b/arch/arm64/kernel/head.S
@@ -16,6 +16,7 @@
#include <asm/asm_pointer_auth.h>
#include <asm/assembler.h>
#include <asm/boot.h>
+#include <asm/bug.h>
#include <asm/ptrace.h>
#include <asm/asm-offsets.h>
#include <asm/cache.h>
@@ -393,6 +394,18 @@ SYM_FUNC_START_LOCAL(__create_page_tables)
ret x28
SYM_FUNC_END(__create_page_tables)
+ /*
+ * Create a final frame record at task_pt_regs(current)->stackframe, so
+ * that the unwinder can identify the final frame record of any task by
+ * its location in the task stack. We reserve the entire pt_regs space
+ * for consistency with user tasks and kthreads.
+ */
+ .macro setup_final_frame
+ sub sp, sp, #PT_REGS_SIZE
+ stp xzr, xzr, [sp, #S_STACKFRAME]
+ add x29, sp, #S_STACKFRAME
+ .endm
+
/*
* The following fragment of code is executed with the MMU enabled.
*
@@ -447,9 +460,9 @@ SYM_FUNC_START_LOCAL(__primary_switched)
#endif
bl switch_to_vhe // Prefer VHE if possible
add sp, sp, #16
- mov x29, #0
- mov x30, #0
- b start_kernel
+ setup_final_frame
+ bl start_kernel
+ ASM_BUG()
SYM_FUNC_END(__primary_switched)
.pushsection ".rodata", "a"
@@ -639,14 +652,14 @@ SYM_FUNC_START_LOCAL(__secondary_switched)
cbz x2, __secondary_too_slow
msr sp_el0, x2
scs_load x2, x3
- mov x29, #0
- mov x30, #0
+ setup_final_frame
#ifdef CONFIG_ARM64_PTR_AUTH
ptrauth_keys_init_cpu x2, x3, x4, x5
#endif
- b secondary_start_kernel
+ bl secondary_start_kernel
+ ASM_BUG()
SYM_FUNC_END(__secondary_switched)
SYM_FUNC_START_LOCAL(__secondary_too_slow)