linux_dsm_epyc7002/arch/x86/entry
Josh Poimboeuf 946c191161 x86/entry/unwind: Create stack frames for saved interrupt registers
With frame pointers, when a task is interrupted, its stack is no longer
completely reliable because the function could have been interrupted
before it had a chance to save the previous frame pointer on the stack.
So the caller of the interrupted function could get skipped by a stack
trace.

This is problematic for live patching, which needs to know whether a
stack trace of a sleeping task can be relied upon.  There's currently no
way to detect if a sleeping task was interrupted by a page fault
exception or preemption before it went to sleep.

Another issue is that when dumping the stack of an interrupted task, the
unwinder has no way of knowing where the saved pt_regs registers are, so
it can't print them.

This solves those issues by encoding the pt_regs pointer in the frame
pointer on entry from an interrupt or an exception.

This patch also updates the unwinder to be able to decode it, because
otherwise the unwinder would be broken by this change.

Note that this causes a change in the behavior of the unwinder: each
instance of a pt_regs on the stack is now considered a "frame".  So
callers of unwind_get_return_address() will now get an occasional
'regs->ip' address that would have previously been skipped over.

Suggested-by: Andy Lutomirski <luto@amacapital.net>
Signed-off-by: Josh Poimboeuf <jpoimboe@redhat.com>
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: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/8b9f84a21e39d249049e0547b559ff8da0df0988.1476973742.git.jpoimboe@redhat.com
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
2016-10-21 09:26:03 +02:00
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syscalls x86, pkeys: remove cruft from never-merged syscalls 2016-10-17 14:16:13 -07:00
vdso KVM updates for v4.9-rc1 2016-10-06 10:49:01 -07:00
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 x86/entry: Get rid of pt_regs_to_thread_info() 2016-09-15 08:25:12 +02:00
entry_32.S x86/entry/unwind: Create stack frames for saved interrupt registers 2016-10-21 09:26:03 +02:00
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/unwind: Create stack frames for saved interrupt registers 2016-10-21 09:26:03 +02:00
Makefile x86/build: Reduce the W=1 warnings noise when compiling x86 syscall tables 2016-08-10 16:05:16 +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