PowerPC/VDSO: Correct call frame information
Michael Ellerman
patch-notifications at ellerman.id.au
Thu Sep 20 14:21:03 AEST 2018
On Fri, 2018-09-14 at 03:40:04 UTC, Alan Modra wrote:
> Call Frame Information is used by gdb for back-traces and inserting
> breakpoints on function return for the "finish" command. This failed
> when inside __kernel_clock_gettime. More concerning than difficulty
> debugging is that CFI is also used by stack frame unwinding code to
> implement exceptions. If you have an app that needs to handle
> asynchronous exceptions for some reason, and you are unlucky enough to
> get one inside the VDSO time functions, your app will crash.
>
> What's wrong: There is control flow in __kernel_clock_gettime that
> reaches label 99 without saving lr in r12. CFI info however is
> interpreted by the unwinder without reference to control flow: It's a
> simple matter of "Execute all the CFI opcodes up to the current
> address". That means the unwinder thinks r12 contains the return
> address at label 99. Disabuse it of that notion by resetting CFI for
> the return address at label 99.
>
> Note that the ".cfi_restore lr" could have gone anywhere from the
> "mtlr r12" a few instructions earlier to the instruction at label 99.
> I put the CFI as late as possible, because in general that's best
> practice (and if possible grouped with other CFI in order to reduce
> the number of CFI opcodes executed when unwinding). Using r12 as the
> return address is perfectly fine after the "mtlr r12" since r12 on
> that code path still contains the return address.
>
> __get_datapage also has a CFI error. That function temporarily saves
> lr in r0, and reflects that fact with ".cfi_register lr,r0". A later
> use of r0 means the CFI at that point isn't correct, as r0 no longer
> contains the return address. Fix that too.
>
> Signed-off-by: Alan Modra <amodra at gmail.com>
> Tested-by: Reza Arbab <arbab at linux.ibm.com>
Applied to powerpc next, thanks.
https://git.kernel.org/powerpc/c/56d20861c027498b5a1112b4f9f05b
cheers
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