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Josh Poimboeuf 8023e0e2a4 x86/unwind: Adjust last frame check for aligned function stacks
Somehow, CONFIG_PARAVIRT=n convinces gcc to change the
x86_64_start_kernel() prologue from:

  0000000000000129 <x86_64_start_kernel>:
   129:	55                   	push   %rbp
   12a:	48 89 e5             	mov    %rsp,%rbp

to:

  0000000000000124 <x86_64_start_kernel>:
   124:	4c 8d 54 24 08       	lea    0x8(%rsp),%r10
   129:	48 83 e4 f0          	and    $0xfffffffffffffff0,%rsp
   12d:	41 ff 72 f8          	pushq  -0x8(%r10)
   131:	55                   	push   %rbp
   132:	48 89 e5             	mov    %rsp,%rbp

This is an unusual pattern which aligns rsp (though in this case it's
already aligned) and saves the start_cpu() return address again on the
stack before storing the frame pointer.

The unwinder assumes the last stack frame header is at a certain offset,
but the above code breaks that assumption, resulting in the following
warning:

  WARNING: kernel stack frame pointer at ffffffff82e03f40 in swapper:0 has bad value           (null)

Fix it by checking for the last task stack frame at the aligned offset
in addition to the normal unaligned offset.

Fixes: acb4608ad1 ("x86/unwind: Create stack frames for saved syscall registers")
Reported-by: Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de>
Signed-off-by: Josh Poimboeuf <jpoimboe@redhat.com>
Cc: Andy Lutomirski <luto@amacapital.net>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/9d7b4eb8cf55a7d6002cb738f25c23e7429c99a0.1481904011.git.jpoimboe@redhat.com
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
2016-12-19 11:47:05 +01:00
Documentation RTC for 4.10 2016-12-18 18:18:03 -08:00
arch x86/unwind: Adjust last frame check for aligned function stacks 2016-12-19 11:47:05 +01:00
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MAINTAINERS platform-drivers-x86 for 4.10-2 2016-12-18 15:45:33 -08:00
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README

Linux kernel
============

This file was moved to Documentation/admin-guide/README.rst

Please notice that there are several guides for kernel developers and users.
These guides can be rendered in a number of formats, like HTML and PDF.

In order to build the documentation, use ``make htmldocs`` or
``make pdfdocs``.

There are various text files in the Documentation/ subdirectory,
several of them using the Restructured Text markup notation.
See Documentation/00-INDEX for a list of what is contained in each file.

Please read the Documentation/process/changes.rst file, as it contains the
requirements for building and running the kernel, and information about
the problems which may result by upgrading your kernel.