linux-kernel - Re: v4.10: kernel stack frame pointer .. has bad value (null)

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Date:   Wed, 8 Mar 2017 15:29:59 -0600
From:   Josh Poimboeuf <jpoimboe@...hat.com>
To:     Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>
Cc:     Andy Lutomirski <luto@...capital.net>, Pavel Machek <pavel@....cz>,
        kernel list <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
        Ingo Molnar <mingo@...nel.org>,
        Andrew Lutomirski <luto@...nel.org>,
        Borislav Petkov <bp@...en8.de>,
        Brian Gerst <brgerst@...il.com>,
        Denys Vlasenko <dvlasenk@...hat.com>,
        Peter Anvin <hpa@...or.com>,
        Peter Zijlstra <peterz@...radead.org>,
        Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>,
        Steven Rostedt <rostedt@...dmis.org>
Subject: Re: v4.10: kernel stack frame pointer .. has bad value (null)

[adding Steven Rostedt to CC as an FYI]

On Wed, Mar 08, 2017 at 10:25:01AM -0800, Linus Torvalds wrote:
> On Wed, Mar 8, 2017 at 9:37 AM, Josh Poimboeuf <jpoimboe@...hat.com> wrote:
> > - CONFIG_FUNCTION_GRAPH_TRACER sets it on x86-32 because of a gcc bug
> >   where the stack gets aligned before the mcount call.  This issue
> >   should be mostly obsolete as most modern compilers now have -mfentry.
> >   We could make it dependent on CC_USING_FENTRY.
> 
> Yeah. At some point we might even upgrade the compiler requirements to
> no longer accept the mcount model.

The plot slightly thickens...

So I was mistaken about this problem not existing with newer versions of
gcc, because the x86-32 ftrace code doesn't use -mfentry.  It still
relies on mcount.  So CONFIG_FUNCTION_GRAPH_TRACER will still need
-maccumulate-outgoing-args for *all* versions of gcc on x86-32.

(Of course, that situation would improve if ftrace on x86-32 were ported
to use -mfentry.)

Also, since -Os tells gcc to ignore -maccumulate-outgoing-args, this
means that CONFIG_FUNCTION_GRAPH_TRACER with mcount needs a dependency
on CONFIG_CC_OPTIMIZE_FOR_PERFORMANCE.

I suspect these issues also affect x86-64 with gcc 4.4.x and 4.5.x,
which corresponds to the window after the funky DRAP prologue was
introduced but before -mfentry was introduced.

In summary, here are the changes I'm looking at:

- set -maccumulate-outgoing-args if CONFIG_FUNCTION_GRAPH_TRACER &&
  !CC_USING_ENTRY
  (for both 32- and 64-bit)

- somehow make CONFIG_FUNCTION_GRAPH_TRACER depend on either
  CC_USING_FENTRY or CONFIG_CC_OPTIMIZE_FOR_PERFORMANCE
  (for both 32- and 64-bit)

  (not sure how to do that -- maybe just fail the build in the
  graph tracer + mcount + '-Os' case)

- set -maccumulate-outgoing-args if CONFIG_JUMP_LABEL && gcc < 4.5.2
  (for both 32-bit and 64-bit)

-- 
Josh