linux-kernel - [PATCH 4.4 85/86] ARC: stack unwinding: avoid indefinite looping

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Message-Id: <20201109125024.873064392@linuxfoundation.org>
Date:   Mon,  9 Nov 2020 13:55:32 +0100
From:   Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>
To:     linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Cc:     Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>,
        stable@...r.kernel.org, Vineet Gupta <vgupta@...opsys.com>
Subject: [PATCH 4.4 85/86] ARC: stack unwinding: avoid indefinite looping

From: Vineet Gupta <vgupta@...opsys.com>

commit 328d2168ca524d501fc4b133d6be076142bd305c upstream.

Currently stack unwinder is a while(1) loop which relies on the dwarf
unwinder to signal termination, which in turn relies on dwarf info to do
so. This in theory could cause an infinite loop if the dwarf info was
somehow messed up or the register contents were etc.

This fix thus detects the excessive looping and breaks the loop.

| Mem: 26184K used, 1009136K free, 0K shrd, 0K buff, 14416K cached
| CPU:  0.0% usr 72.8% sys  0.0% nic 27.1% idle  0.0% io  0.0% irq  0.0% sirq
| Load average: 4.33 2.60 1.11 2/74 139
|   PID  PPID USER     STAT   VSZ %VSZ CPU %CPU COMMAND
|   133     2 root     SWN      0  0.0   3 22.9 [rcu_torture_rea]
|   132     2 root     SWN      0  0.0   0 22.0 [rcu_torture_rea]
|   131     2 root     SWN      0  0.0   3 21.5 [rcu_torture_rea]
|   126     2 root     RW       0  0.0   2  5.4 [rcu_torture_wri]
|   129     2 root     SWN      0  0.0   0  0.2 [rcu_torture_fak]
|   137     2 root     SW       0  0.0   0  0.2 [rcu_torture_cbf]
|   127     2 root     SWN      0  0.0   0  0.1 [rcu_torture_fak]
|   138   115 root     R     1464  0.1   2  0.1 top
|   130     2 root     SWN      0  0.0   0  0.1 [rcu_torture_fak]
|   128     2 root     SWN      0  0.0   0  0.1 [rcu_torture_fak]
|   115     1 root     S     1472  0.1   1  0.0 -/bin/sh
|   104     1 root     S     1464  0.1   0  0.0 inetd
|     1     0 root     S     1456  0.1   2  0.0 init
|    78     1 root     S     1456  0.1   0  0.0 syslogd -O /var/log/messages
|   134     2 root     SW       0  0.0   2  0.0 [rcu_torture_sta]
|    10     2 root     IW       0  0.0   1  0.0 [rcu_preempt]
|    88     2 root     IW       0  0.0   1  0.0 [kworker/1:1-eve]
|    66     2 root     IW       0  0.0   2  0.0 [kworker/2:2-eve]
|    39     2 root     IW       0  0.0   2  0.0 [kworker/2:1-eve]
| unwinder looping too long, aborting !

Cc: <stable@...r.kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Vineet Gupta <vgupta@...opsys.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>

---
 arch/arc/kernel/stacktrace.c |    7 ++++++-
 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

--- a/arch/arc/kernel/stacktrace.c
+++ b/arch/arc/kernel/stacktrace.c
@@ -113,7 +113,7 @@ arc_unwind_core(struct task_struct *tsk,
 		int (*consumer_fn) (unsigned int, void *), void *arg)
 {
 #ifdef CONFIG_ARC_DW2_UNWIND
-	int ret = 0;
+	int ret = 0, cnt = 0;
 	unsigned int address;
 	struct unwind_frame_info frame_info;
 
@@ -133,6 +133,11 @@ arc_unwind_core(struct task_struct *tsk,
 			break;
 
 		frame_info.regs.r63 = frame_info.regs.r31;
+
+		if (cnt++ > 128) {
+			printk("unwinder looping too long, aborting !\n");
+			return 0;
+		}
 	}
 
 	return address;		/* return the last address it saw */