From b18cb64ead400c01bf1580eeba330ace51f8087d Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Andy Lutomirski Date: Fri, 30 Sep 2016 10:58:57 -0700 Subject: fs/proc: Stop trying to report thread stacks This reverts more of: b76437579d13 ("procfs: mark thread stack correctly in proc//maps") ... which was partially reverted by: 65376df58217 ("proc: revert /proc//maps [stack:TID] annotation") Originally, /proc/PID/task/TID/maps was the same as /proc/TID/maps. In current kernels, /proc/PID/maps (or /proc/TID/maps even for threads) shows "[stack]" for VMAs in the mm's stack address range. In contrast, /proc/PID/task/TID/maps uses KSTK_ESP to guess the target thread's stack's VMA. This is racy, probably returns garbage and, on arches with CONFIG_TASK_INFO_IN_THREAD=y, is also crash-prone: KSTK_ESP is not safe to use on tasks that aren't known to be running ordinary process-context kernel code. This patch removes the difference and just shows "[stack]" for VMAs in the mm's stack range. This is IMO much more sensible -- the actual "stack" address really is treated specially by the VM code, and the current thread stack isn't even well-defined for programs that frequently switch stacks on their own. Reported-by: Jann Horn Signed-off-by: Andy Lutomirski Acked-by: Thomas Gleixner Cc: Al Viro Cc: Andrew Morton Cc: Borislav Petkov Cc: Brian Gerst Cc: Johannes Weiner Cc: Kees Cook Cc: Linus Torvalds Cc: Linux API Cc: Peter Zijlstra Cc: Tycho Andersen Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/3e678474ec14e0a0ec34c611016753eea2e1b8ba.1475257877.git.luto@kernel.org Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar --- Documentation/filesystems/proc.txt | 26 -------------------------- 1 file changed, 26 deletions(-) (limited to 'Documentation') diff --git a/Documentation/filesystems/proc.txt b/Documentation/filesystems/proc.txt index 219ffd41a911..74329fd0add2 100644 --- a/Documentation/filesystems/proc.txt +++ b/Documentation/filesystems/proc.txt @@ -395,32 +395,6 @@ is not associated with a file: or if empty, the mapping is anonymous. -The /proc/PID/task/TID/maps is a view of the virtual memory from the viewpoint -of the individual tasks of a process. In this file you will see a mapping marked -as [stack] if that task sees it as a stack. Hence, for the example above, the -task-level map, i.e. /proc/PID/task/TID/maps for thread 1001 will look like this: - -08048000-08049000 r-xp 00000000 03:00 8312 /opt/test -08049000-0804a000 rw-p 00001000 03:00 8312 /opt/test -0804a000-0806b000 rw-p 00000000 00:00 0 [heap] -a7cb1000-a7cb2000 ---p 00000000 00:00 0 -a7cb2000-a7eb2000 rw-p 00000000 00:00 0 -a7eb2000-a7eb3000 ---p 00000000 00:00 0 -a7eb3000-a7ed5000 rw-p 00000000 00:00 0 [stack] -a7ed5000-a8008000 r-xp 00000000 03:00 4222 /lib/libc.so.6 -a8008000-a800a000 r--p 00133000 03:00 4222 /lib/libc.so.6 -a800a000-a800b000 rw-p 00135000 03:00 4222 /lib/libc.so.6 -a800b000-a800e000 rw-p 00000000 00:00 0 -a800e000-a8022000 r-xp 00000000 03:00 14462 /lib/libpthread.so.0 -a8022000-a8023000 r--p 00013000 03:00 14462 /lib/libpthread.so.0 -a8023000-a8024000 rw-p 00014000 03:00 14462 /lib/libpthread.so.0 -a8024000-a8027000 rw-p 00000000 00:00 0 -a8027000-a8043000 r-xp 00000000 03:00 8317 /lib/ld-linux.so.2 -a8043000-a8044000 r--p 0001b000 03:00 8317 /lib/ld-linux.so.2 -a8044000-a8045000 rw-p 0001c000 03:00 8317 /lib/ld-linux.so.2 -aff35000-aff4a000 rw-p 00000000 00:00 0 -ffffe000-fffff000 r-xp 00000000 00:00 0 [vdso] - The /proc/PID/smaps is an extension based on maps, showing the memory consumption for each of the process's mappings. For each of mappings there is a series of lines such as the following: -- cgit