Re: [PATCH v2 3/3] arm64: reliable stacktraces

[Julien Thierry <julien.thierry@arm.com>]

Hi Torsten,

On 17/08/18 11:27, Torsten Duwe wrote:
> This is more an RFC in the original sense: is this basically
> the correct approach? (as I had to tweak the save_stack API a bit).
> 
> In particular the code does not detect interrupts and exception
> frames, and does not yet check whether the code address is valid.
> The latter check would also have to be omitted for the latest frame
> on other tasks' stacks. This would require some more tweaking.
> 
> unwind_frame() now reports whether we had to stop normally or due to
> an error condition; walk_stackframe() will pass that info.
> __save_stack_trace() is used for a start to check the validity of a
> frame; maybe save_stack_trace_tsk_reliable() will need its own callback.
> 
> The question is whether this change, once complete, is sufficient
> (as on powerpc) or whether a port of objtool is needed, like x86.
> 

I'm not sure I understand the involvement of objtool in this.
IIUC objtool just provides a way to check that the code manages stack 
frames consistently. It gives you more confidence in how the code 
manages the frame.

If the semantics of HAVE_RELIABLE_STACKTRACE is "are you able to tell 
whether that stacktrace is good or corrupted?", the code looks mostly 
fine to me.

> I can dig into this myself and draw conclusions, but I'd prefer
> to have some input from ARM people here...
> 
> Signed-off-by: Torsten Duwe <duwe@suse.de>
> 
> --- a/arch/arm64/Kconfig
> +++ b/arch/arm64/Kconfig
> @@ -127,8 +127,9 @@ config ARM64
>   	select HAVE_PERF_EVENTS
>   	select HAVE_PERF_REGS
>   	select HAVE_PERF_USER_STACK_DUMP
> -	select HAVE_REGS_AND_STACK_ACCESS_API
>   	select HAVE_RCU_TABLE_FREE
> +	select HAVE_REGS_AND_STACK_ACCESS_API
> +	select HAVE_RELIABLE_STACKTRACE
>   	select HAVE_STACKPROTECTOR
>   	select HAVE_SYSCALL_TRACEPOINTS
>   	select HAVE_KPROBES
> --- a/arch/arm64/include/asm/stacktrace.h
> +++ b/arch/arm64/include/asm/stacktrace.h
> @@ -33,7 +33,7 @@ struct stackframe {
>   };
>   
>   extern int unwind_frame(struct task_struct *tsk, struct stackframe *frame);
> -extern void walk_stackframe(struct task_struct *tsk, struct stackframe *frame,
> +extern int walk_stackframe(struct task_struct *tsk, struct stackframe *frame,
>   			    int (*fn)(struct stackframe *, void *), void *data);
>   extern void dump_backtrace(struct pt_regs *regs, struct task_struct *tsk);
>   
> diff --git a/arch/arm64/kernel/stacktrace.c b/arch/arm64/kernel/stacktrace.c
> index d5718a060672..fe0dd4745ff3 100644
> --- a/arch/arm64/kernel/stacktrace.c
> +++ b/arch/arm64/kernel/stacktrace.c
> @@ -81,23 +81,27 @@ int notrace unwind_frame(struct task_struct *tsk, struct stackframe *frame)
>   	 * both are NULL.
>   	 */
>   	if (!frame->fp && !frame->pc)
> -		return -EINVAL;
> +		return 1;

unwind_frame is not static so we should take care of other callers.

I can see one in arch/arm64/kernel/time.c, profile_pc which checks 
"unwind_frame(...) < 0" to exit a loop, but now you have made 1 a valid 
stop condition.

I think the other callers are just checking "unwind_frame(...) != 0" as 
stop condition so those should be fine.

Perhaps adding a little comment on unwind_frame "0 -> Stack trace goes 
on, 1 -> reached end of stack trace, 2 -> stack trace looks" would be nice.

>   
>   	return 0;
>   }
>   
> -void notrace walk_stackframe(struct task_struct *tsk, struct stackframe *frame,
> +int notrace walk_stackframe(struct task_struct *tsk, struct stackframe *frame,
>   		     int (*fn)(struct stackframe *, void *), void *data)
>   {
>   	while (1) {
>   		int ret;
>   
> -		if (fn(frame, data))
> -			break;
> +		ret = fn(frame, data);
> +		if (ret)
> +			return ret;
>   		ret = unwind_frame(tsk, frame);
>   		if (ret < 0)
> +			return ret;
> +		if (ret > 0)
>   			break;
>   	}
> +	return 0;
>   }
>   
>   #ifdef CONFIG_STACKTRACE
> @@ -145,14 +149,15 @@ void save_stack_trace_regs(struct pt_regs *regs, struct stack_trace *trace)
>   		trace->entries[trace->nr_entries++] = ULONG_MAX;
>   }
>   
> -static noinline void __save_stack_trace(struct task_struct *tsk,
> +static noinline int __save_stack_trace(struct task_struct *tsk,
>   	struct stack_trace *trace, unsigned int nosched)
>   {
>   	struct stack_trace_data data;
>   	struct stackframe frame;
> +	int ret;
>   
>   	if (!try_get_task_stack(tsk))
> -		return;
> +		return -EBUSY;
>   
>   	data.trace = trace;
>   	data.skip = trace->skip;
> @@ -171,11 +176,12 @@ static noinline void __save_stack_trace(struct task_struct *tsk,
>   	frame.graph = tsk->curr_ret_stack;
>   #endif
>   
> -	walk_stackframe(tsk, &frame, save_trace, &data);
> +	ret = walk_stackframe(tsk, &frame, save_trace, &data);
>   	if (trace->nr_entries < trace->max_entries)
>   		trace->entries[trace->nr_entries++] = ULONG_MAX;
>   
>   	put_task_stack(tsk);
> +	return ret;
>   }
>   EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(save_stack_trace_tsk);
>   
> @@ -190,4 +196,12 @@ void save_stack_trace(struct stack_trace *trace)
>   }
>   
>   EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(save_stack_trace);
> +
> +int save_stack_trace_tsk_reliable(struct task_struct *tsk,
> +				  struct stack_trace *trace)
> +{
> +	return __save_stack_trace(tsk, trace, 1);
> +}
> +EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(save_stack_trace_tsk_reliable);
> +
>   #endif
> 

-- 
Julien Thierry