From: Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@arm.com>
To: Mark Brown <broonie@kernel.org>
Cc: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com>,
Miroslav Benes <mbenes@suse.cz>, Will Deacon <will@kernel.org>,
linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org
Subject: Re: [RFC PATCH 2/3] arm64: stacktrace: Report when we reach the end of the stack
Date: Tue, 13 Oct 2020 12:07:55 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20201013110755.GA774@C02TD0UTHF1T.local> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20201012172605.10715-3-broonie@kernel.org>
On Mon, Oct 12, 2020 at 06:26:04PM +0100, Mark Brown wrote:
> Currently the arm64 unwinder code returns -EINVAL whenever it can't find
> the next stack frame, not distinguishing between cases where the stack has
> been corrupted or is otherwise in a state it shouldn't be and cases
> where we have reached the end of the stack. At the minute none of the
> callers care what error code is returned but this will be important for
> reliable stack trace which needs to be sure that the stack is intact.
>
> Change to return -ENOENT in the case where we reach the bottom of the
> stack. The error codes from this function are only used in kernel, this
> particular code is chosen as we are indicating that we know there is no
> frame there.
>
> Signed-off-by: Mark Brown <broonie@kernel.org>
Acked-by: Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@arm.com>
Mark.
> ---
> arch/arm64/kernel/stacktrace.c | 2 +-
> 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
>
> diff --git a/arch/arm64/kernel/stacktrace.c b/arch/arm64/kernel/stacktrace.c
> index 0fb42129b469..ad20981dfda4 100644
> --- a/arch/arm64/kernel/stacktrace.c
> +++ b/arch/arm64/kernel/stacktrace.c
> @@ -46,7 +46,7 @@ int notrace unwind_frame(struct task_struct *tsk, struct stackframe *frame)
>
> /* Terminal record; nothing to unwind */
> if (!fp)
> - return -EINVAL;
> + return -ENOENT;
>
> if (fp & 0xf)
> return -EINVAL;
> --
> 2.20.1
>
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Thread overview: 60+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2020-10-12 17:26 [RFC PATCH 0/3] arm64: Implement reliable stack trace Mark Brown
2020-10-12 17:26 ` [RFC PATCH 1/3] arm64: remove EL0 exception frame record Mark Brown
2020-10-12 17:26 ` [RFC PATCH 2/3] arm64: stacktrace: Report when we reach the end of the stack Mark Brown
2020-10-13 11:07 ` Mark Rutland [this message]
2020-10-12 17:26 ` [RFC PATCH 3/3] arm64: stacktrace: Implement reliable stacktrace Mark Brown
2020-10-13 10:42 ` Mark Brown
2020-10-13 11:42 ` Mark Rutland
2020-10-13 16:12 ` Mark Brown
2020-10-15 13:33 ` Miroslav Benes
2020-10-15 15:57 ` Mark Brown
2020-10-16 10:13 ` Miroslav Benes
2020-10-16 12:30 ` Mark Brown
2020-10-15 13:39 ` [RFC PATCH 0/3] arm64: Implement reliable stack trace Miroslav Benes
2020-10-15 14:16 ` Mark Rutland
2020-10-15 15:49 ` Mark Brown
2020-10-15 21:29 ` Josh Poimboeuf
2020-10-15 21:29 ` Josh Poimboeuf
2020-10-16 11:14 ` Mark Rutland
2020-10-16 11:14 ` Mark Rutland
2020-10-20 10:03 ` Mark Rutland
2020-10-20 10:03 ` Mark Rutland
2020-10-20 15:58 ` Josh Poimboeuf
2020-10-20 15:58 ` Josh Poimboeuf
2020-10-16 12:15 ` Mark Brown
2020-10-16 12:15 ` Mark Brown
2020-10-19 23:41 ` Josh Poimboeuf
2020-10-19 23:41 ` Josh Poimboeuf
2020-10-20 15:39 ` Mark Brown
2020-10-20 15:39 ` Mark Brown
2020-10-20 16:28 ` Josh Poimboeuf
2020-10-20 16:28 ` Josh Poimboeuf
2021-01-27 14:02 ` Madhavan T. Venkataraman
2021-01-27 16:40 ` Mark Rutland
2021-01-27 17:11 ` Mark Brown
2021-01-27 17:24 ` Madhavan T. Venkataraman
2021-01-27 19:54 ` Madhavan T. Venkataraman
2021-01-28 14:22 ` Mark Brown
2021-01-28 15:26 ` Josh Poimboeuf
2021-01-29 21:39 ` Madhavan T. Venkataraman
2021-02-01 3:20 ` Madhavan T. Venkataraman
2021-02-01 14:39 ` Mark Brown
2021-01-30 4:38 ` Madhavan T. Venkataraman
2021-02-01 15:21 ` Madhavan T. Venkataraman
2021-02-01 15:46 ` Madhavan T. Venkataraman
2021-02-01 16:02 ` Mark Rutland
2021-02-01 16:22 ` Mark Brown
2021-02-01 21:40 ` Madhavan T. Venkataraman
2021-02-01 21:38 ` Madhavan T. Venkataraman
2021-02-01 23:00 ` Josh Poimboeuf
2021-02-02 2:29 ` Madhavan T. Venkataraman
2021-02-02 3:36 ` Josh Poimboeuf
2021-02-02 10:05 ` Mark Rutland
2021-02-02 13:33 ` Madhavan T. Venkataraman
2021-02-02 13:35 ` Madhavan T. Venkataraman
2021-02-02 23:32 ` Madhavan T. Venkataraman
2021-02-03 16:53 ` Mark Rutland
2021-02-03 19:03 ` Madhavan T. Venkataraman
2021-02-05 2:36 ` Madhavan T. Venkataraman
2021-02-01 21:59 ` Madhavan T. Venkataraman
2021-02-02 13:36 ` Mark Brown
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