linux/arch
Mikulas Patocka be24a89700 parisc: Fix backtrace on PA-RISC
This patch fixes backtrace on PA-RISC

There were several problems:

1) The code that decodes instructions handles instructions that subtract
from the stack pointer incorrectly. If the instruction subtracts the
number X from the stack pointer the code increases the frame size by
(0x100000000-X).  This results in invalid accesses to memory and
recursive page faults.

2) Because gcc reorders blocks, handling instructions that subtract from
the frame pointer is incorrect. For example, this function
	int f(int a)
	{
		if (__builtin_expect(a, 1))
			return a;
		g();
		return a;
	}
is compiled in such a way, that the code that decreases the stack
pointer for the first "return a" is placed before the code for "g" call.
If we recognize this decrement, we mistakenly believe that the frame
size for the "g" call is zero.

To fix problems 1) and 2), the patch doesn't recognize instructions that
decrease the stack pointer at all. To further safeguard the unwind code
against nonsense values, we don't allow frame size larger than
Total_frame_size.

3) The backtrace is not locked. If stack dump races with module unload,
invalid table can be accessed.

This patch adds a spinlock when processing module tables.

Note, that for correct backtrace, you need recent binutils.
Binutils 2.18 from Debian 5 produce garbage unwind tables.
Binutils 2.21 work better (it sometimes forgets function frames, but at
least it doesn't generate garbage).

Signed-off-by: Mikulas Patocka <mpatocka@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Helge Deller <deller@gmx.de>
2016-06-04 22:05:07 +02:00
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alpha lib/GCD.c: use binary GCD algorithm instead of Euclidean 2016-05-20 17:58:30 -07:00
arc Merge branch 'perf-urgent-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip 2016-05-25 17:05:40 -07:00
arm Merge branch 'fixes' of git://git.armlinux.org.uk/~rmk/linux-arm 2016-06-03 14:39:29 -07:00
arm64 Merge branch 'irq-urgent-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip 2016-06-03 16:12:35 -07:00
avr32 printk/nmi: generic solution for safe printk in NMI 2016-05-20 17:58:30 -07:00
blackfin printk/nmi: generic solution for safe printk in NMI 2016-05-20 17:58:30 -07:00
c6x asm-generic patch for 4.7 2016-05-24 15:24:37 -07:00
cris MTD updates for v4.7: 2016-05-24 11:00:20 -07:00
frv exit_thread: remove empty bodies 2016-05-20 17:58:30 -07:00
h8300 Merge branch 'hash' of git://ftp.sciencehorizons.net/linux 2016-05-28 16:15:25 -07:00
hexagon asm-generic patch for 4.7 2016-05-24 15:24:37 -07:00
ia64 Merge branch 'kbuild' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/mmarek/kbuild 2016-05-26 22:01:22 -07:00
m32r Merge branch 'kbuild' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/mmarek/kbuild 2016-05-26 22:01:22 -07:00
m68k Merge branch 'hash' of git://ftp.sciencehorizons.net/linux 2016-05-28 16:15:25 -07:00
metag Merge branch 'perf-urgent-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip 2016-05-25 17:05:40 -07:00
microblaze Merge branch 'hash' of git://ftp.sciencehorizons.net/linux 2016-05-28 16:15:25 -07:00
mips Merge branch 'upstream' of git://git.linux-mips.org/pub/scm/ralf/upstream-linus 2016-05-28 16:41:39 -07:00
mn10300 Merge branch 'kbuild' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/mmarek/kbuild 2016-05-26 22:01:22 -07:00
nios2 Merge branch 'kbuild' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/mmarek/kbuild 2016-05-26 22:01:22 -07:00
openrisc asm-generic patch for 4.7 2016-05-24 15:24:37 -07:00
parisc parisc: Fix backtrace on PA-RISC 2016-06-04 22:05:07 +02:00
powerpc powerpc/pseries: Add POWER8NVL support to ibm,client-architecture-support call 2016-06-01 13:47:34 +10:00
s390 Merge branch 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/s390/linux 2016-05-31 09:43:24 -07:00
score asm-generic patch for 4.7 2016-05-24 15:24:37 -07:00
sh Merge branch 'kbuild' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/mmarek/kbuild 2016-05-26 22:01:22 -07:00
sparc Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/sparc 2016-05-31 22:20:56 -07:00
tile Merge branch 'perf-urgent-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip 2016-05-25 17:05:40 -07:00
um Merge branch 'for-linus-4.7-rc1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/rw/uml 2016-05-27 18:54:59 -07:00
unicore32 Merge branch 'kbuild' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/mmarek/kbuild 2016-05-26 22:01:22 -07:00
x86 KVM: x86: fix OOPS after invalid KVM_SET_DEBUGREGS 2016-06-02 17:38:50 +02:00
xtensa Merge branch 'perf-urgent-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip 2016-05-25 17:05:40 -07:00
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