From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.0 (2014-02-07) on aws-us-west-2-korg-lkml-1.web.codeaurora.org X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-7.0 required=3.0 tests=HEADER_FROM_DIFFERENT_DOMAINS, INCLUDES_PATCH,MAILING_LIST_MULTI,SIGNED_OFF_BY,SPF_PASS,URIBL_BLOCKED autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.0 Received: from mail.kernel.org (mail.kernel.org [198.145.29.99]) by smtp.lore.kernel.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 714D4C282C0 for ; Wed, 23 Jan 2019 16:49:08 +0000 (UTC) Received: from vger.kernel.org (vger.kernel.org [209.132.180.67]) by mail.kernel.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 442E12085A for ; Wed, 23 Jan 2019 16:49:08 +0000 (UTC) Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1726313AbfAWQtG (ORCPT ); Wed, 23 Jan 2019 11:49:06 -0500 Received: from foss.arm.com ([217.140.101.70]:44100 "EHLO foss.arm.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1725948AbfAWQtG (ORCPT ); Wed, 23 Jan 2019 11:49:06 -0500 Received: from usa-sjc-imap-foss1.foss.arm.com (unknown [10.72.51.249]) by usa-sjc-mx-foss1.foss.arm.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1BA3AEBD; Wed, 23 Jan 2019 08:49:06 -0800 (PST) Received: from [10.1.197.45] (e112298-lin.cambridge.arm.com [10.1.197.45]) by usa-sjc-imap-foss1.foss.arm.com (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id DBBDD3F237; Wed, 23 Jan 2019 08:49:04 -0800 (PST) Subject: Re: [PATCH] ARM: prevent tracing IPI_CPU_BACKTRACE To: Chunyan Zhang , Russell King , Marc Zyngier Cc: Arnd Bergmann , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org, Chunyan Zhang References: <1538019697-14673-1-git-send-email-chunyan.zhang@unisoc.com> <1539851039-15778-1-git-send-email-zhang.chunyan@linaro.org> From: Julien Thierry Message-ID: Date: Wed, 23 Jan 2019 16:49:02 +0000 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:60.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/60.2.1 MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <1539851039-15778-1-git-send-email-zhang.chunyan@linaro.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Language: en-US Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Hi, On 18/10/2018 09:23, Chunyan Zhang wrote: > From: Arnd Bergmann > > When function tracing for IPIs is enabled, we get a warning for an > overflow of the ipi_types array with the IPI_CPU_BACKTRACE type > as triggered by raise_nmi(): > > arch/arm/kernel/smp.c: In function 'raise_nmi': > arch/arm/kernel/smp.c:489:2: error: array subscript is above array bounds [-Werror=array-bounds] > trace_ipi_raise(target, ipi_types[ipinr]); > > This is a correct warning as we actually overflow the array here. > > This patch raise_nmi() to call __smp_cross_call() instead of > smp_cross_call(), to avoid calling into ftrace. For clarification, > I'm also adding a two new code comments describing how this one > is special. > > The warning appears to have shown up after patch e7273ff49acf > ("ARM: 8488/1: Make IPI_CPU_BACKTRACE a "non-secure" SGI"), which > changed the number assignment from '15' to '8', but as far as I can > tell has existed since the IPI tracepoints were first introduced. > If we decide to backport this patch to stable kernels, we probably > need to backport e7273ff49acf as well. > > Resubmitting this patch is because that I found coverity is complaining > the issue this patch fixed, and also I got the traces like below: > "ipi_raise: target_mask=00000001 (machine_suspend)" which actually was > the TPS of suspend_resume[1] rather that ipi_raise. > What's the status on this patch? it does not seem to be in v5.0-rc3 nor linux-next and looks like an actual issue. Also, I'm assuming the patch is avoiding the tracing of IPI_CPU_BACKTRACE because the tracing is not NMI safe. It would be good to have a comment about that either near NR_IPI or ipi_types stating why this IPI is excluded. Thanks, > [1] > https://elixir.bootlin.com/linux/latest/source/kernel/power/suspend.c#L80 > > Signed-off-by: Arnd Bergmann > Fixes: e7273ff49acf ("ARM: 8488/1: Make IPI_CPU_BACKTRACE a "non-secure" SGI") > Fixes: 365ec7b17327 ("ARM: add IPI tracepoints") # v3.17 > Signed-off-by: Chunyan Zhang > --- > arch/arm/include/asm/hardirq.h | 1 + > arch/arm/kernel/smp.c | 6 +++++- > 2 files changed, 6 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) > > diff --git a/arch/arm/include/asm/hardirq.h b/arch/arm/include/asm/hardirq.h > index cba23ea..7a88f16 100644 > --- a/arch/arm/include/asm/hardirq.h > +++ b/arch/arm/include/asm/hardirq.h > @@ -6,6 +6,7 @@ > #include > #include > > +/* number of IPIS _not_ including IPI_CPU_BACKTRACE */ > #define NR_IPI 7 > > typedef struct { > diff --git a/arch/arm/kernel/smp.c b/arch/arm/kernel/smp.c > index 0978282..ddd48e2 100644 > --- a/arch/arm/kernel/smp.c > +++ b/arch/arm/kernel/smp.c > @@ -75,6 +75,10 @@ enum ipi_msg_type { > IPI_CPU_STOP, > IPI_IRQ_WORK, > IPI_COMPLETION, > + /* > + * CPU_BACKTRACE is special and not included in NR_IPI > + * or tracable with trace_ipi_* > + */ > IPI_CPU_BACKTRACE, > /* > * SGI8-15 can be reserved by secure firmware, and thus may > @@ -755,7 +759,7 @@ core_initcall(register_cpufreq_notifier); > > static void raise_nmi(cpumask_t *mask) > { > - smp_cross_call(mask, IPI_CPU_BACKTRACE); > + __smp_cross_call(mask, IPI_CPU_BACKTRACE); > } > > void arch_trigger_cpumask_backtrace(const cpumask_t *mask, bool exclude_self) > -- Julien Thierry