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Date:   Thu, 22 Mar 2018 06:57:10 +0200
From:   Baruch Siach <baruch@...s.co.il>
To:     Ji Zhang <ji.zhang@...iatek.com>
Cc:     Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@....com>,
        Will Deacon <will.deacon@....com>,
        Matthias Brugger <matthias.bgg@...il.com>,
        Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@....com>,
        Ard Biesheuvel <ard.biesheuvel@...aro.org>,
        James Morse <james.morse@....com>,
        Dave Martin <Dave.Martin@....com>,
        Marc Zyngier <marc.zyngier@....com>,
        Michael Weiser <michael.weiser@....de>,
        Julien Thierry <julien.thierry@....com>,
        Xie XiuQi <xiexiuqi@...wei.com>, wsd_upstream@...iatek.com,
        linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, linux-mediatek@...ts.infradead.org,
        shadanji@....com, linux-arm-kernel@...ts.infradead.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] arm64: avoid race condition issue in dump_backtrace

Hi Ji Zhang,

On Thu, Mar 22, 2018 at 11:06:00AM +0800, Ji Zhang wrote:
> When we dump the backtrace of some specific task, there is a potential race
> condition due to the task may be running on other cores if SMP enabled.
> That is because for current implementation, if the task is not the current
> task, we will get the registers used for unwind from cpu_context saved in
> thread_info, which is the snapshot before context switch, but if the task
> is running on other cores, the registers and the content of stack are
> changed.
> This may cause that we get the wrong backtrace or incomplete backtrace or
> even crash the kernel.
> To avoid this case, do not dump the backtrace of the tasks which are
> running on other cores.
> This patch cannot solve the issue completely but can shrink the window of
> race condition.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Ji Zhang <ji.zhang@...iatek.com>
> ---
>  arch/arm64/kernel/traps.c | 3 +++
>  1 file changed, 3 insertions(+)
> 
> diff --git a/arch/arm64/kernel/traps.c b/arch/arm64/kernel/traps.c
> index eb2d151..95749364 100644
> --- a/arch/arm64/kernel/traps.c
> +++ b/arch/arm64/kernel/traps.c
> @@ -113,6 +113,9 @@ void dump_backtrace(struct pt_regs *regs, struct task_struct *tsk)
>  	if (tsk == current) {
>  		frame.fp = (unsigned long)__builtin_frame_address(0);
>  		frame.pc = (unsigned long)dump_backtrace;
> +	else if (tsk->state == TASK_RUNNING) {

Missing closing brace. Does this build?

> +		pr_notice("Do not dump other running tasks\n");
> +		return;
>  	} else {
>  		/*
>  		 * task blocked in __switch_to

baruch

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