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authorJosh Poimboeuf <jpoimboe@redhat.com>2016-10-26 17:41:51 +0200
committerIngo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>2016-10-27 08:32:38 +0200
commitb6959a362177053c1c90db6dc1af25b6bddd8548 (patch)
tree130057c49063003c48dca7d8697a3726c59d644b /arch/x86/kernel/unwind_frame.c
parentx86/dumpstack: Warn on stack recursion (diff)
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x86/unwind: Detect bad stack return address
If __kernel_text_address() doesn't recognize a return address on the stack, it probably means that it's some generated code which __kernel_text_address() doesn't know about yet. Otherwise there's probably some stack corruption. Either way, warn about it. Use printk_deferred_once() because the unwinder can be called with the console lock by lockdep via save_stack_trace(). 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/2d897898f324e275943b590d160b55e482bba65f.1477496147.git.jpoimboe@redhat.com Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'arch/x86/kernel/unwind_frame.c')
-rw-r--r--arch/x86/kernel/unwind_frame.c10
1 files changed, 9 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/arch/x86/kernel/unwind_frame.c b/arch/x86/kernel/unwind_frame.c
index 9be9a8f8c5df..5639db619c03 100644
--- a/arch/x86/kernel/unwind_frame.c
+++ b/arch/x86/kernel/unwind_frame.c
@@ -20,7 +20,15 @@ unsigned long unwind_get_return_address(struct unwind_state *state)
addr = ftrace_graph_ret_addr(state->task, &state->graph_idx, *addr_p,
addr_p);
- return __kernel_text_address(addr) ? addr : 0;
+ if (!__kernel_text_address(addr)) {
+ printk_deferred_once(KERN_WARNING
+ "WARNING: unrecognized kernel stack return address %p at %p in %s:%d\n",
+ (void *)addr, addr_p, state->task->comm,
+ state->task->pid);
+ return 0;
+ }
+
+ return addr;
}
EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(unwind_get_return_address);