linux-kernel - [PATCH v2 42/44] x86/unwind: warn on kernel stack corruption

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Date:	Thu,  4 Aug 2016 17:22:38 -0500
From:	Josh Poimboeuf <jpoimboe@...hat.com>
To:	Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>,
	Ingo Molnar <mingo@...nel.org>,
	"H . Peter Anvin" <hpa@...or.com>
Cc:	x86@...nel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	Andy Lutomirski <luto@...capital.net>,
	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>,
	Steven Rostedt <rostedt@...dmis.org>,
	Brian Gerst <brgerst@...il.com>,
	Kees Cook <keescook@...omium.org>,
	Peter Zijlstra <peterz@...radead.org>,
	Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@...il.com>,
	Byungchul Park <byungchul.park@....com>
Subject: [PATCH v2 42/44] x86/unwind: warn on kernel stack corruption

Detect situations in the unwinder where the frame pointer refers to a
bad address, and print an appropriate warning.

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@...hat.com>
---
 arch/x86/kernel/unwind_frame.c | 24 ++++++++++++++++++++++--
 1 file changed, 22 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/arch/x86/kernel/unwind_frame.c b/arch/x86/kernel/unwind_frame.c
index f60a089..d90c2c9 100644
--- a/arch/x86/kernel/unwind_frame.c
+++ b/arch/x86/kernel/unwind_frame.c
@@ -135,8 +135,13 @@ bool unwind_next_frame(struct unwind_state *state)
 		 * encoded regs pointer is on the IRQ stack but the regs
 		 * themselves are on the task stack.
 		 */
-		if (!update_stack_state(state, regs, sizeof(*regs)))
+		if (!update_stack_state(state, regs, sizeof(*regs))) {
+			printk_deferred_once(KERN_WARNING "WARNING: kernel stack frame pointer at %p in %s:%d decodes to bad regs pointer %p\n",
+				state->bp, state->task->comm, state->task->pid,
+				regs);
+
 			return false;
+		}
 
 		/*
 		 * The regs are now safe to access and are made available to
@@ -157,8 +162,23 @@ bool unwind_next_frame(struct unwind_state *state)
 	 * Make sure the next frame is on a valid stack and can be accessed
 	 * safely.
 	 */
-	if (!update_stack_state(state, next_bp, FRAME_HEADER_SIZE))
+	if (!update_stack_state(state, next_bp, FRAME_HEADER_SIZE)) {
+		/*
+		 * The next frame isn't on a valid stack, and we haven't
+		 * reached the end, which means something went wrong: either a
+		 * bad next stack pointer or a bad frame pointer.
+		 */
+		if (state->regs)
+			printk_deferred_once(KERN_WARNING "WARNING: kernel stack regs->bp at %p in %s:%d points to bad address %p\n",
+				state->bp, state->task->comm,
+				state->task->pid, regs);
+		else
+			printk_deferred_once(KERN_WARNING "WARNING: kernel stack frame pointer at %p in %s:%d points to bad address %p\n",
+				state->bp, state->task->comm,
+				state->task->pid, next_bp);
+
 		return false;
+	}
 
 	/* move to the next frame */
 	state->bp = next_bp;
-- 
2.7.4