Patch "x86/unwinder: Handle stack overflows more gracefully" has been added to the 4.14-stable tree

This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled

x86/unwinder: Handle stack overflows more gracefully

to the 4.14-stable tree which can be found at:
http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/stable/stable-queue.git;a=summary

The filename of the patch is:
x86-unwinder-handle-stack-overflows-more-gracefully.patch
and it can be found in the queue-4.14 subdirectory.

If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree, please let <[email protected]> know about it.

From: Josh Poimboeuf <[email protected]>
Date: Mon, 4 Dec 2017 15:07:09 +0100
Subject: x86/unwinder: Handle stack overflows more gracefully

From: Josh Poimboeuf <[email protected]>

commit b02fcf9ba1211097754b286043cd87a8b4907e75 upstream.

There are at least two unwinder bugs hindering the debugging of stack-overflow crashes:

- It doesn't deal gracefully with the case where the stack overflows and the stack pointer itself isn't on a valid stack but the to-be-dereferenced data *is*.

- The ORC oops dump code doesn't know how to print partial pt_regs, for the case where if we get an interrupt/exception in *early* entry code before the full pt_regs have been saved.

Fix both issues.

http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20171126024031.uxi4numpbjm5rlbr@treble

---
 arch/x86/include/asm/kdebug.h |    1 
 arch/x86/include/asm/unwind.h |    7 +++
 arch/x86/kernel/dumpstack.c   |   32 ++++++++++++++---
 arch/x86/kernel/process_64.c  |   11 ++----
 arch/x86/kernel/unwind_orc.c  |   76 ++++++++++++++----------------------------
 5 files changed, 66 insertions(+), 61 deletions(-)

@@ -26,6 +26,7 @@ extern void die(const char *, struct pt_
 extern int __must_check __die(const char *, struct pt_regs *, long);
 extern void show_stack_regs(struct pt_regs *regs);
 extern void __show_regs(struct pt_regs *regs, int all);
+extern void show_iret_regs(struct pt_regs *regs);
 extern unsigned long oops_begin(void);
 extern void oops_end(unsigned long, struct pt_regs *, int signr);
 

@@ -7,6 +7,9 @@
 #include <asm/ptrace.h>
 #include <asm/stacktrace.h>
 
+#define IRET_FRAME_OFFSET (offsetof(struct pt_regs, ip))
+#define IRET_FRAME_SIZE   (sizeof(struct pt_regs) - IRET_FRAME_OFFSET)
+
 struct unwind_state {
 	struct stack_info stack_info;
 	unsigned long stack_mask;

@@ -52,6 +55,10 @@ void unwind_start(struct unwind_state *s
 }
 
 #if defined(CONFIG_UNWINDER_ORC) || defined(CONFIG_UNWINDER_FRAME_POINTER)
+/*
+ * WARNING: The entire pt_regs may not be safe to dereference.  In some cases,
+ * only the iret frame registers are accessible.  Use with caution!
+ */
 static inline struct pt_regs *unwind_get_entry_regs(struct unwind_state *state)
 {
 	if (unwind_done(state))

@@ -50,6 +50,28 @@ static void printk_stack_address(unsigne
 	printk("%s %s%pB\n", log_lvl, reliable ? "" : "? ", (void *)address);
 }
 
+void show_iret_regs(struct pt_regs *regs)
+{
+	printk(KERN_DEFAULT "RIP: %04x:%pS\n", (int)regs->cs, (void *)regs->ip);
+	printk(KERN_DEFAULT "RSP: %04x:%016lx EFLAGS: %08lx", (int)regs->ss,
+		regs->sp, regs->flags);
+}
+
+static void show_regs_safe(struct stack_info *info, struct pt_regs *regs)
+{
+	if (on_stack(info, regs, sizeof(*regs)))
+		__show_regs(regs, 0);
+	else if (on_stack(info, (void *)regs + IRET_FRAME_OFFSET,
+			  IRET_FRAME_SIZE)) {
+		/*
+		 * When an interrupt or exception occurs in entry code, the
+		 * full pt_regs might not have been saved yet.  In that case
+		 * just print the iret frame.
+		 */
+		show_iret_regs(regs);
+	}
+}
+
 void show_trace_log_lvl(struct task_struct *task, struct pt_regs *regs,
 			unsigned long *stack, char *log_lvl)
 {

@@ -94,8 +116,8 @@ void show_trace_log_lvl(struct task_stru
 		if (stack_name)
 			printk("%s <%s>\n", log_lvl, stack_name);
 
-		if (regs && on_stack(&stack_info, regs, sizeof(*regs)))
-			__show_regs(regs, 0);
+		if (regs)
+			show_regs_safe(&stack_info, regs);
 
 		/*
 		 * Scan the stack, printing any text addresses we find.  At the

@@ -119,7 +141,7 @@ void show_trace_log_lvl(struct task_stru
 
 			/*
 			 * Don't print regs->ip again if it was already printed
-			 * by __show_regs() below.
+			 * by show_regs_safe() below.
 			 */
 			if (regs && stack == &regs->ip)
 				goto next;

@@ -155,8 +177,8 @@ next:
 
 			/* if the frame has entry regs, print them */
 			regs = unwind_get_entry_regs(&state);
-			if (regs && on_stack(&stack_info, regs, sizeof(*regs)))
-				__show_regs(regs, 0);
+			if (regs)
+				show_regs_safe(&stack_info, regs);
 		}
 
 		if (stack_name)

@@ -69,9 +69,8 @@ void __show_regs(struct pt_regs *regs, i
 	unsigned int fsindex, gsindex;
 	unsigned int ds, cs, es;
 
-	printk(KERN_DEFAULT "RIP: %04lx:%pS\n", regs->cs, (void *)regs->ip);
-	printk(KERN_DEFAULT "RSP: %04lx:%016lx EFLAGS: %08lx", regs->ss,
-		regs->sp, regs->flags);
+	show_iret_regs(regs);
+
 	if (regs->orig_ax != -1)
 		pr_cont(" ORIG_RAX: %016lx\n", regs->orig_ax);
 	else

@@ -88,6 +87,9 @@ void __show_regs(struct pt_regs *regs, i
 	printk(KERN_DEFAULT "R13: %016lx R14: %016lx R15: %016lx\n",
 	       regs->r13, regs->r14, regs->r15);
 
+	if (!all)
+		return;
+
 	asm("movl %%ds,%0" : "=r" (ds));
 	asm("movl %%cs,%0" : "=r" (cs));
 	asm("movl %%es,%0" : "=r" (es));

@@ -98,9 +100,6 @@ void __show_regs(struct pt_regs *regs, i
 	rdmsrl(MSR_GS_BASE, gs);
 	rdmsrl(MSR_KERNEL_GS_BASE, shadowgs);
 
-	if (!all)
-		return;
-
 	cr0 = read_cr0();
 	cr2 = read_cr2();
 	cr3 = __read_cr3();

Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from [email protected] are

queue-4.14/x86-cpufeatures-fix-various-details-in-the-feature-definitions.patch queue-4.14/x86-entry-64-move-the-ist-stacks-into-struct-cpu_entry_area.patch queue-4.14/x86-dumpstack-add-get_stack_info-support-for-the-sysenter-stack.patch queue-4.14/x86-asm-don-t-use-the-confusing-.ifeq-directive.patch queue-4.14/x86-entry-remap-the-tss-into-the-cpu-entry-area.patch queue-4.14/x86-entry-64-paravirt-use-paravirt-safe-macro-to-access-eflags.patch queue-4.14/x86-mm-fixmap-generalize-the-gdt-fixmap-mechanism-introduce-struct-cpu_entry_area.patch queue-4.14/x86-paravirt-dont-patch-flush_tlb_single.patch queue-4.14/x86-dumpstack-handle-stack-overflow-on-all-stacks.patch queue-4.14/x86-entry-64-return-to-userspace-from-the-trampoline-stack.patch queue-4.14/x86-paravirt-provide-a-way-to-check-for-hypervisors.patch queue-4.14/x86-entry-64-create-a-per-cpu-syscall-entry-trampoline.patch queue-4.14/x86-boot-relocate-definition-of-the-initial-state-of-cr0.patch queue-4.14/objtool-don-t-report-end-of-section-error-after-an-empty-unwind-hint.patch queue-4.14/x86-entry-64-use-a-per-cpu-trampoline-stack-for-idt-entries.patch queue-4.14/x86-cpufeature-add-user-mode-instruction-prevention-definitions.patch queue-4.14/x86-cpufeatures-make-cpu-bugs-sticky.patch queue-4.14/x86-espfix-64-stop-assuming-that-pt_regs-is-on-the-entry-stack.patch queue-4.14/x86-xen-fix-xen-head-elf-annotations.patch queue-4.14/x86-entry-move-sysenter_stack-to-the-beginning-of-struct-tss_struct.patch queue-4.14/x86-entry-64-allocate-and-enable-the-sysenter-stack.patch queue-4.14/x86-unwinder-orc-dont-bail-on-stack-overflow.patch queue-4.14/x86-head-fix-head-elf-function-annotations.patch queue-4.14/objtool-print-top-level-commands-on-incorrect-usage.patch queue-4.14/x86-unwind-rename-unwinder-config-options-to-config_unwinder_.patch queue-4.14/x86-head-add-unwind-hint-annotations.patch queue-4.14/x86-head-remove-unused-bad_address-code.patch queue-4.14/x86-xen-add-unwind-hint-annotations.patch queue-4.14/x86-kasan-64-teach-kasan-about-the-cpu_entry_area.patch queue-4.14/x86-head-remove-confusing-comment.patch queue-4.14/x86-entry-64-remove-the-sysenter-stack-canary.patch queue-4.14/x86-unwinder-make-config_unwinder_orc-y-the-default-in-the-64-bit-defconfig.patch queue-4.14/x86-entry-gdt-put-per-cpu-gdt-remaps-in-ascending-order.patch queue-4.14/x86-entry-fix-assumptions-that-the-hw-tss-is-at-the-beginning-of-cpu_tss.patch queue-4.14/x86-cpufeatures-re-tabulate-the-x86_feature-definitions.patch queue-4.14/x86-entry-64-make-cpu_entry_area.tss-read-only.patch queue-4.14/x86-unwind-make-config_unwinder_orc-y-the-default-in-kconfig-for-64-bit.patch queue-4.14/x86-mm-relocate-page-fault-error-codes-to-traps.h.patch queue-4.14/x86-unwinder-handle-stack-overflows-more-gracefully.patch queue-4.14/x86-irq-64-print-the-offending-ip-in-the-stack-overflow-warning.patch queue-4.14/x86-entry-clean-up-the-sysenter_stack-code.patch queue-4.14/x86-entry-64-separate-cpu_current_top_of_stack-from-tss.sp0.patch queue-4.14/x86-boot-annotate-verify_cpu-as-a-callable-function.patch queue-4.14/x86-irq-remove-an-old-outdated-comment-about-context-tracking-races.patch