linux-kernel - [PATCH 4/4] x86/unwind: detect bad stack return address

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Message-Id: <2d897898f324e275943b590d160b55e482bba65f.1477496147.git.jpoimboe@redhat.com>
Date:   Wed, 26 Oct 2016 10:41:51 -0500
From:   Josh Poimboeuf <jpoimboe@...hat.com>
To:     x86@...nel.org
Cc:     linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: [PATCH 4/4] 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@...hat.com>
---
 arch/x86/kernel/unwind_frame.c | 10 +++++++++-
 1 file changed, 9 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/arch/x86/kernel/unwind_frame.c b/arch/x86/kernel/unwind_frame.c
index 0d8d2f2..b6fcf44 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);
 
-- 
2.7.4