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Message-Id: <f3202c855a2a61ae4c37d8b3835e00fb384c56b9.1466036668.git.luto@kernel.org>
Date: Wed, 15 Jun 2016 17:28:32 -0700
From: Andy Lutomirski <luto@...nel.org>
To: "linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
x86@...nel.org,
Borislav Petkov <bp@...en8.de>
Cc: Nadav Amit <nadav.amit@...il.com>,
Kees Cook <keescook@...omium.org>,
Brian Gerst <brgerst@...il.com>,
"kernel-hardening@...ts.openwall.com" <kernel-hardening@...ts.openwall.com>,
Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>,
Josh Poimboeuf <jpoimboe@...hat.com>,
Andy Lutomirski <luto@...nel.org>
Subject: [PATCH 10/13] x86/dumpstack: Try harder to get a call trace on stack overflow
If we overflow the stack, print_context_stack will abort. Detect
this case and rewind back into the valid part of the stack so that
we can trace it.
Signed-off-by: Andy Lutomirski <luto@...nel.org>
---
arch/x86/kernel/dumpstack.c | 7 +++++++
1 file changed, 7 insertions(+)
diff --git a/arch/x86/kernel/dumpstack.c b/arch/x86/kernel/dumpstack.c
index d4d085e27d04..400a2e17c1d1 100644
--- a/arch/x86/kernel/dumpstack.c
+++ b/arch/x86/kernel/dumpstack.c
@@ -100,6 +100,13 @@ print_context_stack(struct thread_info *tinfo,
{
struct stack_frame *frame = (struct stack_frame *)bp;
+ /*
+ * If we overflowed the stack into a guard page, jump back to the
+ * bottom of the usable stack.
+ */
+ if ((unsigned long)tinfo - (unsigned long)stack < PAGE_SIZE)
+ stack = (unsigned long *)tinfo + 1;
+
while (valid_stack_ptr(tinfo, stack, sizeof(*stack), end)) {
unsigned long addr;
--
2.7.4
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