From af085d9084b48530153f51e6cad19fd0b1a13ed7 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Josh Poimboeuf Date: Mon, 13 Feb 2017 19:42:28 -0600 Subject: stacktrace/x86: add function for detecting reliable stack traces For live patching and possibly other use cases, a stack trace is only useful if it can be assured that it's completely reliable. Add a new save_stack_trace_tsk_reliable() function to achieve that. Note that if the target task isn't the current task, and the target task is allowed to run, then it could be writing the stack while the unwinder is reading it, resulting in possible corruption. So the caller of save_stack_trace_tsk_reliable() must ensure that the task is either 'current' or inactive. save_stack_trace_tsk_reliable() relies on the x86 unwinder's detection of pt_regs on the stack. If the pt_regs are not user-mode registers from a syscall, then they indicate an in-kernel interrupt or exception (e.g. preemption or a page fault), in which case the stack is considered unreliable due to the nature of frame pointers. It also relies on the x86 unwinder's detection of other issues, such as: - corrupted stack data - stack grows the wrong way - stack walk doesn't reach the bottom - user didn't provide a large enough entries array Such issues are reported by checking unwind_error() and !unwind_done(). Also add CONFIG_HAVE_RELIABLE_STACKTRACE so arch-independent code can determine at build time whether the function is implemented. Signed-off-by: Josh Poimboeuf Reviewed-by: Miroslav Benes Acked-by: Ingo Molnar # for the x86 changes Signed-off-by: Jiri Kosina --- arch/Kconfig | 6 ++++++ 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+) (limited to 'arch/Kconfig') diff --git a/arch/Kconfig b/arch/Kconfig index cd211a14a88f..6ad00ad73459 100644 --- a/arch/Kconfig +++ b/arch/Kconfig @@ -713,6 +713,12 @@ config HAVE_STACK_VALIDATION Architecture supports the 'objtool check' host tool command, which performs compile-time stack metadata validation. +config HAVE_RELIABLE_STACKTRACE + bool + help + Architecture has a save_stack_trace_tsk_reliable() function which + only returns a stack trace if it can guarantee the trace is reliable. + config HAVE_ARCH_HASH bool default n -- cgit