From: Nam Cao <namcao@linutronix.de>
To: Jiakai Xu <xujiakai2025@iscas.ac.cn>,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-riscv@lists.infradead.org
Cc: Albert Ou <aou@eecs.berkeley.edu>,
Alexandre Ghiti <alex@ghiti.fr>,
Chunyan Zhang <zhangchunyan@iscas.ac.cn>,
Jiakai Xu <xujiakai2025@iscas.ac.cn>,
Matthew Bystrin <dev.mbstr@gmail.com>,
Palmer Dabbelt <palmer@dabbelt.com>,
Paul Walmsley <pjw@kernel.org>, Rui Qi <qirui.001@bytedance.com>,
Samuel Holland <samuel.holland@sifive.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v5] riscv: stacktrace: fix stack-out-of-bounds in walk_stackframe()
Date: Wed, 05 Aug 2026 12:57:08 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87y0ek96nv.fsf@yellow.woof> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20260705063656.237676-1-xujiakai2025@iscas.ac.cn>
Jiakai Xu <xujiakai2025@iscas.ac.cn> writes:
> The fp_is_valid() function uses ALIGN(sp, THREAD_SIZE) as the upper
> bound for the frame pointer check. This bound is calculated relative
> to the current sp and shifts upward when sp itself exceeds the valid
> stack region, allowing the unwinder to read past the end of the
> allocated task stack and triggering KASAN stack-out-of-bounds.
>
> Fix this by using absolute stack boundaries determined once before
> the unwind loop:
>
> - When sp is on the task stack, use the task's pt_regs as the upper
> bound.
> - When sp is on the overflow_stack (CONFIG_VMAP_STACK=y), use the
> overflow_stack's top as the boundary.
> - When sp is on the IRQ stack (CONFIG_IRQ_STACKS=y), use the IRQ
> stack's top as the boundary.
> - When sp is not on any known stack, warn and return.
> - For remote tasks (task != current), if sp is not on the task
> stack, warn and return since we cannot reliably determine the
> correct boundary from a different CPU's stacks.
>
> Make the DECLARE_PER_CPU(overflow_stack) unconditional in
> asm/stacktrace.h so that stacktrace.c can use
> IS_ENABLED(CONFIG_VMAP_STACK) instead of #ifdef, in line with the
> kernel coding style which discourages the use of #ifdef in .c files
> (https://docs.kernel.org/process/coding-style.html). This is safe
> because the DEFINE_PER_CPU (memory allocation) in traps.c remains
> guarded by CONFIG_VMAP_STACK; the reference in stacktrace.c is only
> compiled when IS_ENABLED(CONFIG_VMAP_STACK) evaluates to true.
>
> Fixes: a2a4d4a6a0bf ("riscv: stacktrace: fixed walk_stackframe()")
> Signed-off-by: Jiakai Xu <xujiakai2025@iscas.ac.cn>
> Assisted-by: YuanSheng:DeepSeek-V3.2
Reviewed-by: Nam Cao <namcao@linutronix.de>
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2026-08-05 10:57 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2026-07-05 6:36 Jiakai Xu
2026-08-05 10:57 ` Nam Cao [this message]
2026-08-27 12:38 ` Jiakai Xu
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