[patch] UML kernels on {i386,x86_64} produce bad coredumps

[ppluzhnikov@google.com (Paul Pluzhnikov)]

Greetings,

One of our users reported that when a user-level program SIGSEGVs under
UML kernel, the resulting core dump is not very usable.

I have reproduced that with the latest kernel:

  make ARCH=um defconfig; make ARCH=um

Run the resulting kernel, then "inside" run this program:

#include <pthread.h>

void *fn(void *p)
{
 abort();
}

int main()
{
 pthread_t tid;
 pthread_create(&tid, 0, fn, 0);
 pthread_join(tid, 0);
 return 0;
}

Analyze the coredump with GDB. Here is what you'll see:

sudo gdb -q -ex 'set solib-absolute-prefix ../root_fs' -ex 'file ../root_fs/var/tmp/mt-abort' -ex 'core ../root_fs/var/tmp/core.762'
Reading symbols from /usr/local/google/root_fs/var/tmp/mt-abort...done.
[New Thread 763]
[New Thread 762]
Core was generated by `./mt-abort'.
Program terminated with signal 6, Aborted.
#0  0x0000000040255250 in raise () from ../root_fs/lib64/libc.so.6
(gdb) info thread
  2 Thread 762  0x0000000000000000 in ?? ()
* 1 Thread 763  0x0000000040255250 in raise () from ../root_fs/lib64/libc.so.6

Note that thread#2 looks funny.

(gdb) thread 2
[Switching to thread 2 (Thread 762)]#0  0x0000000000000000 in ?? ()
(gdb) info reg
rax            0x0      0
rbx            0x0      0
rcx            0x0      0
rdx            0x0      0
rsi            0x0      0
rdi            0x0      0
rbp            0x0      0x0
rsp            0x0      0x0
r8             0x0      0
r9             0x0      0
r10            0x0      0
r11            0x0      0
r12            0x0      0
r13            0x0      0
r14            0x0      0
r15            0x0      0
rip            0x0      0
eflags         0x0      [ ]
cs             0x0      0
ss             0x0      0
ds             0x0      0
es             0x0      0
fs             0x0      0
gs             0x0      0

Examining the core shows that NT_PRSTATUS notes for all threads other than
the one that crashed are zeroed out.

I believe this is happening because neither ELF_CORE_COPY_TASK_REGS nor
task_pt_regs are defined under ARCH=um, and so elf_core_copy_task_regs()
becomes a no-op.

Attached patch fixes this for SUBARCH={x86_64,i386}.

Thanks,
--
Paul Pluzhnikov

P.S. Google has blanket FSF copyright assignment.


Signed-off-by: Paul Pluzhnikov <ppluzhnikov@google.com>


diff --git a/arch/um/sys-i386/asm/elf.h b/arch/um/sys-i386/asm/elf.h
index a979a22..d964a41 100644
--- a/arch/um/sys-i386/asm/elf.h
+++ b/arch/um/sys-i386/asm/elf.h
@@ -75,6 +75,8 @@ typedef struct user_i387_struct elf_fpregset_t;
 	pr_reg[16] = PT_REGS_SS(regs);		\
 } while (0);
 
+#define task_pt_regs(t) (&(t)->thread.regs)
+
 struct task_struct;
 
 extern int elf_core_copy_fpregs(struct task_struct *t, elf_fpregset_t *fpu);
diff --git a/arch/um/sys-x86_64/asm/elf.h b/arch/um/sys-x86_64/asm/elf.h
index d760967f..d6d5af3 100644
--- a/arch/um/sys-x86_64/asm/elf.h
+++ b/arch/um/sys-x86_64/asm/elf.h
@@ -95,6 +95,8 @@ typedef struct user_i387_struct elf_fpregset_t;
 	(pr_reg)[25] = 0;					\
 	(pr_reg)[26] = 0;
 
+#define task_pt_regs(t) (&(t)->thread.regs)
+
 struct task_struct;
 
 extern int elf_core_copy_fpregs(struct task_struct *t, elf_fpregset_t *fpu);