linux-kernel - [PATCH] arm64: make irq_stack

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Date:	Thu, 11 Feb 2016 13:53:10 -0800
From:	Yang Shi <yang.shi@...aro.org>
To:	will.deacon@....com, catalin.marinas@....com, james.morse@....com
Cc:	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, linux-arm-kernel@...ts.infradead.org,
	linaro-kernel@...ts.linaro.org, yang.shi@...aro.org
Subject: [PATCH] arm64: make irq_stack_ptr more robust

Switching between stacks is only valid if we are tracing ourselves while on the
irq_stack, so it is only valid when in current and non-preemptible context,
otherwise is is just zeroed off.

Signed-off-by: Yang Shi <yang.shi@...aro.org>
---
 arch/arm64/kernel/stacktrace.c | 13 ++++++-------
 arch/arm64/kernel/traps.c      | 11 ++++++++++-
 2 files changed, 16 insertions(+), 8 deletions(-)

diff --git a/arch/arm64/kernel/stacktrace.c b/arch/arm64/kernel/stacktrace.c
index 12a18cb..d9751a4 100644
--- a/arch/arm64/kernel/stacktrace.c
+++ b/arch/arm64/kernel/stacktrace.c
@@ -44,14 +44,13 @@ int notrace unwind_frame(struct task_struct *tsk, struct stackframe *frame)
 	unsigned long irq_stack_ptr;
 
 	/*
-	 * Use raw_smp_processor_id() to avoid false-positives from
-	 * CONFIG_DEBUG_PREEMPT. get_wchan() calls unwind_frame() on sleeping
-	 * task stacks, we can be pre-empted in this case, so
-	 * {raw_,}smp_processor_id() may give us the wrong value. Sleeping
-	 * tasks can't ever be on an interrupt stack, so regardless of cpu,
-	 * the checks will always fail.
+	 * Switching between stacks is valid when tracing current and in
+	 * non-preemptible context.
 	 */
-	irq_stack_ptr = IRQ_STACK_PTR(raw_smp_processor_id());
+	if (tsk == current && !preemptible())
+		irq_stack_ptr = IRQ_STACK_PTR(smp_processor_id());
+	else
+		irq_stack_ptr = 0;
 
 	low  = frame->sp;
 	/* irq stacks are not THREAD_SIZE aligned */
diff --git a/arch/arm64/kernel/traps.c b/arch/arm64/kernel/traps.c
index cbedd72..7d8db3a 100644
--- a/arch/arm64/kernel/traps.c
+++ b/arch/arm64/kernel/traps.c
@@ -146,9 +146,18 @@ static void dump_instr(const char *lvl, struct pt_regs *regs)
 static void dump_backtrace(struct pt_regs *regs, struct task_struct *tsk)
 {
 	struct stackframe frame;
-	unsigned long irq_stack_ptr = IRQ_STACK_PTR(smp_processor_id());
+	unsigned long irq_stack_ptr;
 	int skip;
 
+	/*
+	 * Switching between  stacks is valid when tracing current and in
+	 * non-preemptible context.
+	 */
+	if (tsk == current && !preemptible())
+		irq_stack_ptr = IRQ_STACK_PTR(smp_processor_id());
+	else
+		irq_stack_ptr = 0;
+
 	pr_debug("%s(regs = %p tsk = %p)\n", __func__, regs, tsk);
 
 	if (!tsk)
-- 
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