From: Andy Lutomirski <luto@amacapital.net>
To: Josh Poimboeuf <jpoimboe@redhat.com>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>,
Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>,
Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@linux.intel.com>,
Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>,
"H . Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>,
Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>,
Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 11/21] x86/dumpstack: Handle stack overflow on all stacks
Date: Mon, 27 Nov 2017 21:29:26 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <CALCETrXptow2p4N4zqCny-inHyEcUw4hemDnvw50i5BcKx0G6w@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20171128042943.ebs6yzduthakxxk4@treble>
On Mon, Nov 27, 2017 at 8:29 PM, Josh Poimboeuf <jpoimboe@redhat.com> wrote:
> On Mon, Nov 27, 2017 at 11:26:30AM -0800, Linus Torvalds wrote:
>> On Mon, Nov 27, 2017 at 2:45 AM, Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org> wrote:
>> > From: Andy Lutomirski <luto@kernel.org>
>> >
>> > We currently special-case stack overflow on the task stack. We're
>> > going to start putting special stacks in the fixmap with a custom
>> > layout, so they'll have guard pages, too. Teach the unwinder to be
>> > able to unwind an overflow of any of the stacks.
>>
>> Why isn't this together with 01/21? The two cases seem to be entirely
>> identical and fundamentally the same issue.
>
> Yeah, they probably do belong in the same patch.
>
>> In fact, maybe the whole "stack overflow" special cases should be in
>> "get_stack_info()" itself, rather than be special-cased in the
>> callers?
>
> I would be nervous about doing that. Several of the get_stack_info()
> callers rely on it being honest.
>
> In fact, looking deeper at the above patch, it doesn't seem convincingly
> safe to me. What if the adjacent page doesn't exist? Then when the
> oops dumping code dereferences the 'stack' variable, you get an oops in
> your oops.
>
Isn't the oops dumping code supposed to dereference everything using a
special safe function?
Anyway, get_stack_info() wouldn't really be lying. It would just be
returning something where begin..end doesn't contain the requested
pointer.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2017-11-28 5:29 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 35+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2017-11-27 10:45 [PATCH 00/21] Preparatory patches for x86 KAISER support Ingo Molnar
2017-11-27 10:45 ` [PATCH 01/21] x86/unwinder/orc: Don't bail on stack overflow Ingo Molnar
2017-11-27 14:47 ` Borislav Petkov
2017-11-27 10:45 ` [PATCH 02/21] x86/unwinder: Handle stack overflows more gracefully Ingo Molnar
2017-11-27 17:36 ` Borislav Petkov
2017-11-28 4:55 ` Josh Poimboeuf
2017-11-27 10:45 ` [PATCH 03/21] x86/irq: Remove an old outdated comment about context tracking races Ingo Molnar
2017-11-27 10:45 ` [PATCH 04/21] x86/irq/64: Print the offending IP in the stack overflow warning Ingo Molnar
2017-11-27 10:45 ` [PATCH 05/21] x86/entry/64: Allocate and enable the SYSENTER stack Ingo Molnar
2017-11-27 10:45 ` [PATCH 06/21] x86/dumpstack: Add get_stack_info() support for " Ingo Molnar
2017-11-27 10:45 ` [PATCH 07/21] x86/entry/gdt: Put per-CPU GDT remaps in ascending order Ingo Molnar
2017-11-27 10:45 ` [PATCH 08/21] x86/mm/fixmap: Generalize the GDT fixmap mechanism, introduce 'struct cpu_entry_area' Ingo Molnar
2017-11-27 10:45 ` [PATCH 09/21] x86/kasan/64: Teach KASAN about the cpu_entry_area Ingo Molnar
2017-11-27 10:45 ` [PATCH 10/21] x86/entry: Fix assumptions that the HW TSS is at the beginning of cpu_tss Ingo Molnar
2017-11-27 10:45 ` [PATCH 11/21] x86/dumpstack: Handle stack overflow on all stacks Ingo Molnar
2017-11-27 19:26 ` Linus Torvalds
2017-11-28 4:29 ` Josh Poimboeuf
2017-11-28 5:29 ` Andy Lutomirski [this message]
2017-11-28 18:15 ` Josh Poimboeuf
2017-11-27 10:45 ` [PATCH 12/21] x86/entry: Move SYSENTER_stack to the beginning of struct tss_struct Ingo Molnar
2017-11-27 10:45 ` [PATCH 13/21] x86/entry: Remap the TSS into the CPU entry area Ingo Molnar
2017-11-27 10:45 ` [PATCH 14/21] x86/entry/64: Separate cpu_current_top_of_stack from TSS.sp0 Ingo Molnar
2017-11-27 10:45 ` [PATCH 15/21] x86/espfix/64: Stop assuming that pt_regs is on the entry stack Ingo Molnar
2017-11-27 10:45 ` [PATCH 16/21] x86/entry/64: Use a per-CPU trampoline stack for IDT entries Ingo Molnar
2017-12-01 17:06 ` Dave Hansen
2017-12-01 17:44 ` Andy Lutomirski
2017-12-01 21:21 ` Dave Hansen
2017-12-01 21:59 ` Andy Lutomirski
2017-12-02 6:41 ` Kevin Easton
2017-11-27 10:45 ` [PATCH 17/21] x86/entry/64: Return to userspace from the trampoline stack Ingo Molnar
2017-11-27 10:45 ` [PATCH 18/21] x86/entry/64: Create a per-CPU SYSCALL entry trampoline Ingo Molnar
2017-11-27 10:45 ` [PATCH 19/21] x86/entry/64: Move the IST stacks into 'struct cpu_entry_area' Ingo Molnar
2017-11-27 10:45 ` [PATCH 20/21] x86/entry/64: Remove the SYSENTER stack canary Ingo Molnar
2017-11-27 10:45 ` [PATCH 21/21] x86/entry: Clean up the SYSENTER_stack code Ingo Molnar
2017-12-01 17:59 ` Borislav Petkov
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