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SubjectRe: [PATCH v2 3/3] arm64: reliable stacktraces
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Hi Torsten,

On 17/08/18 11:27, Torsten Duwe wrote:
> This is more an RFC in the original sense: is this basically
> the correct approach? (as I had to tweak the save_stack API a bit).
>
> In particular the code does not detect interrupts and exception
> frames, and does not yet check whether the code address is valid.
> The latter check would also have to be omitted for the latest frame
> on other tasks' stacks. This would require some more tweaking.
>
> unwind_frame() now reports whether we had to stop normally or due to
> an error condition; walk_stackframe() will pass that info.
> __save_stack_trace() is used for a start to check the validity of a
> frame; maybe save_stack_trace_tsk_reliable() will need its own callback.
>
> The question is whether this change, once complete, is sufficient
> (as on powerpc) or whether a port of objtool is needed, like x86.
>

I'm not sure I understand the involvement of objtool in this.
IIUC objtool just provides a way to check that the code manages stack
frames consistently. It gives you more confidence in how the code
manages the frame.

If the semantics of HAVE_RELIABLE_STACKTRACE is "are you able to tell
whether that stacktrace is good or corrupted?", the code looks mostly
fine to me.

> I can dig into this myself and draw conclusions, but I'd prefer
> to have some input from ARM people here...
>
> Signed-off-by: Torsten Duwe <duwe@suse.de>
>
> --- a/arch/arm64/Kconfig
> +++ b/arch/arm64/Kconfig
> @@ -127,8 +127,9 @@ config ARM64
> select HAVE_PERF_EVENTS
> select HAVE_PERF_REGS
> select HAVE_PERF_USER_STACK_DUMP
> - select HAVE_REGS_AND_STACK_ACCESS_API
> select HAVE_RCU_TABLE_FREE
> + select HAVE_REGS_AND_STACK_ACCESS_API
> + select HAVE_RELIABLE_STACKTRACE
> select HAVE_STACKPROTECTOR
> select HAVE_SYSCALL_TRACEPOINTS
> select HAVE_KPROBES
> --- a/arch/arm64/include/asm/stacktrace.h
> +++ b/arch/arm64/include/asm/stacktrace.h
> @@ -33,7 +33,7 @@ struct stackframe {
> };
>
> extern int unwind_frame(struct task_struct *tsk, struct stackframe *frame);
> -extern void walk_stackframe(struct task_struct *tsk, struct stackframe *frame,
> +extern int walk_stackframe(struct task_struct *tsk, struct stackframe *frame,
> int (*fn)(struct stackframe *, void *), void *data);
> extern void dump_backtrace(struct pt_regs *regs, struct task_struct *tsk);
>
> diff --git a/arch/arm64/kernel/stacktrace.c b/arch/arm64/kernel/stacktrace.c
> index d5718a060672..fe0dd4745ff3 100644
> --- a/arch/arm64/kernel/stacktrace.c
> +++ b/arch/arm64/kernel/stacktrace.c
> @@ -81,23 +81,27 @@ int notrace unwind_frame(struct task_struct *tsk, struct stackframe *frame)
> * both are NULL.
> */
> if (!frame->fp && !frame->pc)
> - return -EINVAL;
> + return 1;

unwind_frame is not static so we should take care of other callers.

I can see one in arch/arm64/kernel/time.c, profile_pc which checks
"unwind_frame(...) < 0" to exit a loop, but now you have made 1 a valid
stop condition.

I think the other callers are just checking "unwind_frame(...) != 0" as
stop condition so those should be fine.

Perhaps adding a little comment on unwind_frame "0 -> Stack trace goes
on, 1 -> reached end of stack trace, 2 -> stack trace looks" would be nice.

>
> return 0;
> }
>
> -void notrace walk_stackframe(struct task_struct *tsk, struct stackframe *frame,
> +int notrace walk_stackframe(struct task_struct *tsk, struct stackframe *frame,
> int (*fn)(struct stackframe *, void *), void *data)
> {
> while (1) {
> int ret;
>
> - if (fn(frame, data))
> - break;
> + ret = fn(frame, data);
> + if (ret)
> + return ret;
> ret = unwind_frame(tsk, frame);
> if (ret < 0)
> + return ret;
> + if (ret > 0)
> break;
> }
> + return 0;
> }
>
> #ifdef CONFIG_STACKTRACE
> @@ -145,14 +149,15 @@ void save_stack_trace_regs(struct pt_regs *regs, struct stack_trace *trace)
> trace->entries[trace->nr_entries++] = ULONG_MAX;
> }
>
> -static noinline void __save_stack_trace(struct task_struct *tsk,
> +static noinline int __save_stack_trace(struct task_struct *tsk,
> struct stack_trace *trace, unsigned int nosched)
> {
> struct stack_trace_data data;
> struct stackframe frame;
> + int ret;
>
> if (!try_get_task_stack(tsk))
> - return;
> + return -EBUSY;
>
> data.trace = trace;
> data.skip = trace->skip;
> @@ -171,11 +176,12 @@ static noinline void __save_stack_trace(struct task_struct *tsk,
> frame.graph = tsk->curr_ret_stack;
> #endif
>
> - walk_stackframe(tsk, &frame, save_trace, &data);
> + ret = walk_stackframe(tsk, &frame, save_trace, &data);
> if (trace->nr_entries < trace->max_entries)
> trace->entries[trace->nr_entries++] = ULONG_MAX;
>
> put_task_stack(tsk);
> + return ret;
> }
> EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(save_stack_trace_tsk);
>
> @@ -190,4 +196,12 @@ void save_stack_trace(struct stack_trace *trace)
> }
>
> EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(save_stack_trace);
> +
> +int save_stack_trace_tsk_reliable(struct task_struct *tsk,
> + struct stack_trace *trace)
> +{
> + return __save_stack_trace(tsk, trace, 1);
> +}
> +EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(save_stack_trace_tsk_reliable);
> +
> #endif
>

--
Julien Thierry

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