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SubjectRe: [PATCH 02/16] x86/dumpstack: Add get_stack_info() support for the SYSENTER stack
On Mon, Nov 20, 2017 at 1:55 PM, Josh Poimboeuf <jpoimboe@redhat.com> wrote:
> On Mon, Nov 20, 2017 at 01:30:12PM -0800, Andy Lutomirski wrote:
>> On Mon, Nov 20, 2017 at 1:27 PM, Josh Poimboeuf <jpoimboe@redhat.com> wrote:
>> > On Mon, Nov 20, 2017 at 01:07:16PM -0800, Andy Lutomirski wrote:
>> >> >> but, more importantly, the OOPS unwinder will just bail without this
>> >> >> patch. With the patch, we get a valid unwind, except that everything
>> >> >> has a ? in front.
>> >> >
>> >> > Hm. I can't even fathom how that's possible. Are you talking about the
>> >> > "unwind from NMI to SYSENTER stack" path? Or any unwind to a syscall?
>> >> > Either way I'm baffled... If the unwinder only encounters the SYSENTER
>> >> > stack at the end, how could that cause everything beforehand to have a
>> >> > question mark?
>> >>
>> >> I mean that, if I put a ud2 or other bug in the code that runs on the
>> >> SYSENTER stack, without this patch, I get a totally blank call trace.
>> >
>> > I would expect a blank call trace either way...
>>
>> Try making sync_regs use a few kB of stack space or, better yet, call
>> a non-inlined function that uses too much stack.
>
> You mean overflow the exception stack? I still don't see how that would
> do it.
>
> If you could show a specific example, with splats from before/after,
> that would be helpful. Because I still have no idea how this patch
> could possibly help.

I added BUG() to sync_regs(). With the patch, I get:

[ 4.211553] PANIC: double fault, error_code: 0x0
[ 4.212113] CPU: 0 PID: 1 Comm: sh Not tainted 4.14.0+ #920
[ 4.212741] Hardware name: QEMU Standard PC (i440FX + PIIX, 1996),
BIOS 1.10.2-1.fc26 04/01/2014
[ 4.213536] task: ffff88001aa18000 task.stack: ffff88001aa20000
[ 4.214059] RIP: 0010:do_error_trap+0x33/0x1c0
[ 4.214449] RSP: 0000:ffffffffff1b8f78 EFLAGS: 00010096
[ 4.214934] RAX: dffffc0000000000 RBX: ffffffffff1b8f90 RCX: 0000000000000006
[ 4.215554] RDX: ffffffff82048b20 RSI: 0000000000000000 RDI: ffffffffff1b9110
[ 4.216176] RBP: ffffffffff1b9088 R08: 0000000000000004 R09: 0000000000000000
[ 4.216793] R10: 0000000000000000 R11: fffffbffffe3723f R12: 0000000000000006
[ 4.217419] R13: 0000000000000000 R14: 0000000000000004 R15: 0000000000000000
[ 4.218046] FS: 0000000000000000(0000) GS:ffff88001ae00000(0000)
knlGS:0000000000000000
[ 4.218775] CS: 0010 DS: 0000 ES: 0000 CR0: 0000000080050033
[ 4.219280] CR2: ffffffffff1b8f68 CR3: 00000000193da002 CR4: 00000000003606f0
[ 4.219931] Call Trace:
[ 4.220156] <SYSENTER>
[ 4.220383] ? async_page_fault+0x36/0x60
[ 4.220768] ? invalid_op+0x22/0x40
[ 4.221087] ? async_page_fault+0x36/0x60
[ 4.221442] ? sync_regs+0x3c/0x40
[ 4.221745] ? sync_regs+0x2e/0x40
[ 4.222051] ? error_entry+0x6c/0xd0
[ 4.222395] ? async_page_fault+0x36/0x60
[ 4.222748] </SYSENTER>
[ 4.223014] Code: 00 00 00 fc ff df 41 55 41 54 49 89 f7 55 53 48
89 fd 48 81 c7 88 00 00 00 49 89 cc 45 89 c6 48 81 ec d8 00 00 00 48
8d 5c 24 18 <48> 89 14 24 48 c7 44 24 18 b3 8a b5 41 48 c7 44 24 20 b8
5e 4d

Without the patch, I get:

[ 3.962218] PANIC: double fault, error_code: 0x0
[ 3.962728] CPU: 0 PID: 1 Comm: sh Not tainted 4.14.0+ #921
[ 3.963225] Hardware name: QEMU Standard PC (i440FX + PIIX, 1996),
BIOS 1.10.2-1.fc26 04/01/2014
[ 3.963998] task: ffff88001aa18000 task.stack: ffff88001aa20000
[ 3.964526] RIP: 0010:do_error_trap+0x33/0x1c0
[ 3.964947] RSP: 0000:ffffffffff1b8f78 EFLAGS: 00010096
[ 3.965439] RAX: dffffc0000000000 RBX: ffffffffff1b8f90 RCX: 0000000000000006
[ 3.966067] RDX: ffffffff82048b20 RSI: 0000000000000000 RDI: ffffffffff1b9110
[ 3.966696] RBP: ffffffffff1b9088 R08: 0000000000000004 R09: 0000000000000000
[ 3.967316] R10: 0000000000000000 R11: fffffbffffe3723f R12: 0000000000000006
[ 3.967939] R13: 0000000000000000 R14: 0000000000000004 R15: 0000000000000000
[ 3.968565] FS: 0000000000000000(0000) GS:ffff88001ae00000(0000)
knlGS:0000000000000000
[ 3.969272] CS: 0010 DS: 0000 ES: 0000 CR0: 0000000080050033
[ 3.969776] CR2: ffffffffff1b8f68 CR3: 0000000019308002 CR4: 00000000003606f0
[ 3.970406] Call Trace:
[ 3.970632] Code: 00 00 00 fc ff df 41 55 41 54 49 89 f7 55 53 48
89 fd 48 81 c7 88 00 00 00 49 89 cc 45 89 c6 48 81 ec d8 00 00 00 48
8d 5c 24 18 <48> 89 14 24 48 c7 44 24 18 b3 8a b5 41 48 c7 44 24 20 b8
5e 4d

I prefer the former :)

>
> --
> Josh

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