linux-kernel - [PATCH 1/2] lkdtm: Make lkdtm_do_action() return to avoid tail call optimization

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Date: Mon, 22 Jan 2024 16:49:34 -0800
From: Douglas Anderson <dianders@...omium.org>
To: Kees Cook <keescook@...omium.org>
Cc: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@...db.de>,
	Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>,
	Douglas Anderson <dianders@...omium.org>,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: [PATCH 1/2] lkdtm: Make lkdtm_do_action() return to avoid tail call optimization

The comments for lkdtm_do_action() explicitly call out that it
shouldn't be inlined because we want it to show up in stack
crawls. However, at least with some compilers / options it's still
vanishing due to tail call optimization. Let's add a return value to
the function to make it harder for the compiler to do tail call
optimization here.

Now that we have a return value, we can actually use it in the
callers, which is a minor improvement in the code.

Signed-off-by: Douglas Anderson <dianders@...omium.org>
---

 drivers/misc/lkdtm/core.c | 22 ++++++++++++++--------
 1 file changed, 14 insertions(+), 8 deletions(-)

diff --git a/drivers/misc/lkdtm/core.c b/drivers/misc/lkdtm/core.c
index 0772e4a4757e..5732fd59a227 100644
--- a/drivers/misc/lkdtm/core.c
+++ b/drivers/misc/lkdtm/core.c
@@ -153,12 +153,17 @@ static const struct crashtype *find_crashtype(const char *name)
 /*
  * This is forced noinline just so it distinctly shows up in the stackdump
  * which makes validation of expected lkdtm crashes easier.
+ *
+ * NOTE: having a valid return value helps prevent the compiler from doing
+ * tail call optimizations and taking this out of the stack trace.
  */
-static noinline void lkdtm_do_action(const struct crashtype *crashtype)
+static noinline int lkdtm_do_action(const struct crashtype *crashtype)
 {
 	if (WARN_ON(!crashtype || !crashtype->func))
-		return;
+		return -EINVAL;
 	crashtype->func();
+
+	return 0;
 }
 
 static int lkdtm_register_cpoint(struct crashpoint *crashpoint,
@@ -167,10 +172,8 @@ static int lkdtm_register_cpoint(struct crashpoint *crashpoint,
 	int ret;
 
 	/* If this doesn't have a symbol, just call immediately. */
-	if (!crashpoint->kprobe.symbol_name) {
-		lkdtm_do_action(crashtype);
-		return 0;
-	}
+	if (!crashpoint->kprobe.symbol_name)
+		return lkdtm_do_action(crashtype);
 
 	if (lkdtm_kprobe != NULL)
 		unregister_kprobe(lkdtm_kprobe);
@@ -216,7 +219,7 @@ static int lkdtm_kprobe_handler(struct kprobe *kp, struct pt_regs *regs)
 	spin_unlock_irqrestore(&crash_count_lock, flags);
 
 	if (do_it)
-		lkdtm_do_action(lkdtm_crashtype);
+		return lkdtm_do_action(lkdtm_crashtype);
 
 	return 0;
 }
@@ -303,6 +306,7 @@ static ssize_t direct_entry(struct file *f, const char __user *user_buf,
 {
 	const struct crashtype *crashtype;
 	char *buf;
+	int err;
 
 	if (count >= PAGE_SIZE)
 		return -EINVAL;
@@ -326,9 +330,11 @@ static ssize_t direct_entry(struct file *f, const char __user *user_buf,
 		return -EINVAL;
 
 	pr_info("Performing direct entry %s\n", crashtype->name);
-	lkdtm_do_action(crashtype);
+	err = lkdtm_do_action(crashtype);
 	*off += count;
 
+	if (err)
+		return err;
 	return count;
 }
 
-- 
2.43.0.429.g432eaa2c6b-goog