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#0 lore raw

v9 cover unwind_deferred: Implement sframe handling

This code is based on top of:

https://lore.kernel.org/linux-trace-kernel/[email protected]/
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/trace/linux-trace.git
unwind/core

This is the implementation of parsing the SFrame section in an ELF file. It's a continuation of Josh's last work that can be found here:

https://lore.kernel.org/all/[email protected]/

Currently the only way to get a user space stack trace from a stack walk (and not just copying large amount of user stack into the kernel ring buffer) is to use frame pointers. This has a few issues. The biggest one is that compiling frame pointers into every application and library has been shown to cause performance overhead.

Another issue is that the format of the frames may not always be consistent between different compilers and some architectures (s390) has no defined format to do a reliable stack walk. The only way to perform user space profiling on these architectures is to copy the user stack into the kernel buffer.

SFrames[1] is now supported in gcc binutils and soon will also be supported by LLVM. SFrames acts more like ORC, and lives in the ELF executable file as its own section. Like ORC it has two tables where the first table is sorted by instruction pointers (IP) and using the current IP and finding it's entry in the first table, it will take you to the second table which will tell you where the return address of the current function is located and then you can use that address to look it up in the first table to find the return address of that function, and so on. This performs a user space stack walk.

Now because the SFrame section lives in the ELF file it needs to be faulted into memory when it is used. This means that walking the user space stack requires being in a faultable context. As profilers like perf request a stack trace in interrupt or NMI context, it cannot do the walking when it is requested. Instead it must be deferred until it is safe to fault in user space. One place this is known to be safe is when the task is about to return back to user space.

This series makes the deferred unwind code implement SFrames.

[1] https://sourceware.org/binutils/wiki/sframe

The code for this series is located here:

git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/trace/linux-trace.git
unwind/sframe

Head SHA1: 2e9c59950d225f260c7407a54a10ea3fb682fde3

Changes since v8: https://lore.kernel.org/linux-trace-kernel/[email protected]/

- Rebased on the changes by Mathieu in the kernel/unwind/user.c file
https://lore.kernel.org/all/[email protected]/

- Add "safe_read_fre()" and "safe_read_fde()" to call their respective functions with a user_read_access_begin() wrapper around them so that the validator can simply use dbg_sec() directly instead of a _uaccess() hacked version.

- Removed the hacky patch to debug sframes in user_access areas. (Linus Torvalds)

Josh Poimboeuf (11):
unwind_user/sframe: Add support for reading .sframe headers unwind_user/sframe: Store sframe section data in per-mm maple tree x86/uaccess: Add unsafe_copy_from_user() implementation unwind_user/sframe: Add support for reading .sframe contents unwind_user/sframe: Detect .sframe sections in executables unwind_user/sframe: Wire up unwind_user to sframe
unwind_user/sframe/x86: Enable sframe unwinding on x86
unwind_user/sframe: Remove .sframe section on detected corruption unwind_user/sframe: Show file name in debug output
unwind_user/sframe: Add .sframe validation option
[DO NOT APPLY] unwind_user/sframe: Add prctl() interface for registering .sframe sections

----

 MAINTAINERS                       |   1 +
 arch/Kconfig                      |  23 ++
 arch/x86/Kconfig                  |   1 +
 arch/x86/include/asm/mmu.h        |   2 +-
 arch/x86/include/asm/uaccess.h    |  39 ++-
 fs/binfmt_elf.c                   |  49 +++-
 include/linux/mm_types.h          |   3 +
 include/linux/sframe.h            |  60 ++++
 include/linux/unwind_user_types.h |   4 +-
 include/uapi/linux/elf.h          |   1 +
 include/uapi/linux/prctl.h        |   6 +-
 kernel/fork.c                     |  10 +
 kernel/sys.c                      |   9 +
 kernel/unwind/Makefile            |   3 +-
 kernel/unwind/sframe.c            | 593 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
 kernel/unwind/sframe.h            |  71 +++++
 kernel/unwind/sframe_debug.h      |  68 +++++
 kernel/unwind/user.c              |  41 ++-
 mm/init-mm.c                      |   2 +
 19 files changed, 967 insertions(+), 19 deletions(-)
 create mode 100644 include/linux/sframe.h
 create mode 100644 kernel/unwind/sframe.c
 create mode 100644 kernel/unwind/sframe.h
 create mode 100644 kernel/unwind/sframe_debug.h
#1 lore raw

PATCH v9 1/11 unwind_user/sframe: Add support for reading .sframe headers

From: Josh Poimboeuf <[email protected]>

In preparation for unwinding user space stacks with sframe, add basic sframe compile infrastructure and support for reading the .sframe section header.

sframe_add_section() reads the header and unconditionally returns an error, so it's not very useful yet. A subsequent patch will improve that.

---
 MAINTAINERS            |   1 +
 arch/Kconfig           |   3 +
 include/linux/sframe.h |  40 ++++++++++++
 kernel/unwind/Makefile |   3 +-
 kernel/unwind/sframe.c | 136 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
 kernel/unwind/sframe.h |  71 +++++++++++++++++++++
 6 files changed, 253 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
 create mode 100644 include/linux/sframe.h
 create mode 100644 kernel/unwind/sframe.c
 create mode 100644 kernel/unwind/sframe.h
MAINTAINERS +1 -0
index 370d780fd5f8..a6a94d2d03b0 100644
@@ -25932,6 +25932,7 @@ USERSPACE STACK UNWINDING
 M:	Josh Poimboeuf <[email protected]>
 M:	Steven Rostedt <[email protected]>
 S:	Maintained
+F:	include/linux/sframe.h
 F:	include/linux/unwind*.h
 F:	kernel/unwind/
 
arch/Kconfig +3 -0
index 8e3fd723bd74..edd6393512f5 100644
@@ -442,6 +442,9 @@ config HAVE_UNWIND_USER_FP
 	bool
 	select UNWIND_USER
 
+config HAVE_UNWIND_USER_SFRAME
+	bool
+
 config HAVE_PERF_REGS
 	bool
 	help
include/linux/sframe.h new file +40 -0
new file mode 100644
index 000000000000..0584f661f698
@@ -0,0 +1,40 @@
+/* SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0 */
+#ifndef _LINUX_SFRAME_H
+#define _LINUX_SFRAME_H
+
+#include <linux/mm_types.h>
+#include <linux/unwind_user_types.h>
+
+#ifdef CONFIG_HAVE_UNWIND_USER_SFRAME
+
+struct sframe_section {
+	unsigned long	sframe_start;
+	unsigned long	sframe_end;
+	unsigned long	text_start;
+	unsigned long	text_end;
+
+	unsigned long	fdes_start;
+	unsigned long	fres_start;
+	unsigned long	fres_end;
+	unsigned int	num_fdes;
+
+	signed char	ra_off;
+	signed char	fp_off;
+};
+
+extern int sframe_add_section(unsigned long sframe_start, unsigned long sframe_end,
+			      unsigned long text_start, unsigned long text_end);
+extern int sframe_remove_section(unsigned long sframe_addr);
+
+#else /* !CONFIG_HAVE_UNWIND_USER_SFRAME */
+
+static inline int sframe_add_section(unsigned long sframe_start, unsigned long sframe_end,
+				     unsigned long text_start, unsigned long text_end)
+{
+	return -ENOSYS;
+}
+static inline int sframe_remove_section(unsigned long sframe_addr) { return -ENOSYS; }
+
+#endif /* CONFIG_HAVE_UNWIND_USER_SFRAME */
+
+#endif /* _LINUX_SFRAME_H */
kernel/unwind/Makefile +2 -1
index eae37bea54fd..146038165865 100644
@@ -1 +1,2 @@
- obj-$(CONFIG_UNWIND_USER)	+= user.o deferred.o
+ obj-$(CONFIG_UNWIND_USER)		+= user.o deferred.o
+ obj-$(CONFIG_HAVE_UNWIND_USER_SFRAME)	+= sframe.o
kernel/unwind/sframe.c new file +136 -0

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kernel/unwind/sframe.h new file +71 -0

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#2 lore raw

PATCH v9 2/11 unwind_user/sframe: Store sframe section data in per-mm maple tree

In reply to Steven Rostedt

From: Josh Poimboeuf <[email protected]>

Associate an sframe section with its mm by adding it to a per-mm maple tree which is indexed by the corresponding text address range. A single sframe section can be associated with multiple text ranges.

---
 arch/x86/include/asm/mmu.h |  2 +-
 include/linux/mm_types.h   |  3 +++
 include/linux/sframe.h     | 13 +++++++++
 kernel/fork.c              | 10 +++++++
 kernel/unwind/sframe.c     | 55 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++---
 mm/init-mm.c               |  2 ++
 6 files changed, 81 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)
arch/x86/include/asm/mmu.h +1 -1
index 0fe9c569d171..227a32899a59 100644
@@ -87,7 +87,7 @@ typedef struct {
 	.context = {							\
 		.ctx_id = 1,						\
 		.lock = __MUTEX_INITIALIZER(mm.context.lock),		\
-	}
+	},
 
 void leave_mm(void);
 #define leave_mm leave_mm
include/linux/mm_types.h +3 -0
index d6b91e8a66d6..4296cabf4afa 100644
@@ -1206,6 +1206,9 @@ struct mm_struct {
 #ifdef CONFIG_MM_ID
 		mm_id_t mm_id;
 #endif /* CONFIG_MM_ID */
+#ifdef CONFIG_HAVE_UNWIND_USER_SFRAME
+		struct maple_tree sframe_mt;
+#endif
 	} __randomize_layout;
 
 	/*
include/linux/sframe.h +13 -0
index 0584f661f698..73bf6f0b30c2 100644
@@ -22,18 +22,31 @@ struct sframe_section {
 	signed char	fp_off;
 };
 
+#define INIT_MM_SFRAME .sframe_mt = MTREE_INIT(sframe_mt, 0),
+extern void sframe_free_mm(struct mm_struct *mm);
+
 extern int sframe_add_section(unsigned long sframe_start, unsigned long sframe_end,
 			      unsigned long text_start, unsigned long text_end);
 extern int sframe_remove_section(unsigned long sframe_addr);
 
+static inline bool current_has_sframe(void)
+{
+	struct mm_struct *mm = current->mm;
+
+	return mm && !mtree_empty(&mm->sframe_mt);
+}
+
 #else /* !CONFIG_HAVE_UNWIND_USER_SFRAME */
 
+#define INIT_MM_SFRAME
+static inline void sframe_free_mm(struct mm_struct *mm) {}
 static inline int sframe_add_section(unsigned long sframe_start, unsigned long sframe_end,
 				     unsigned long text_start, unsigned long text_end)
 {
 	return -ENOSYS;
 }
 static inline int sframe_remove_section(unsigned long sframe_addr) { return -ENOSYS; }
+static inline bool current_has_sframe(void) { return false; }
 
 #endif /* CONFIG_HAVE_UNWIND_USER_SFRAME */
 
kernel/fork.c +10 -0
index 3341d50c61f2..e56daf4e546f 100644
@@ -106,6 +106,7 @@
 #include <linux/pidfs.h>
 #include <linux/tick.h>
 #include <linux/unwind_deferred.h>
+#include <linux/sframe.h>
 
 #include <asm/pgalloc.h>
 #include <linux/uaccess.h>
@@ -687,6 +688,7 @@ void __mmdrop(struct mm_struct *mm)
 	mm_pasid_drop(mm);
 	mm_destroy_cid(mm);
 	percpu_counter_destroy_many(mm->rss_stat, NR_MM_COUNTERS);
+	sframe_free_mm(mm);
 
 	free_mm(mm);
 }
@@ -1024,6 +1026,13 @@ static void mmap_init_lock(struct mm_struct *mm)
 #endif
 }
 
+static void mm_init_sframe(struct mm_struct *mm)
+{
+#ifdef CONFIG_HAVE_UNWIND_USER_SFRAME
+	mt_init(&mm->sframe_mt);
+#endif
+}
+
 static struct mm_struct *mm_init(struct mm_struct *mm, struct task_struct *p,
 	struct user_namespace *user_ns)
 {
@@ -1053,6 +1062,7 @@ static struct mm_struct *mm_init(struct mm_struct *mm, struct task_struct *p,
 	mm->pmd_huge_pte = NULL;
 #endif
 	mm_init_uprobes_state(mm);
+	mm_init_sframe(mm);
 	hugetlb_count_init(mm);
 
 	if (current->mm) {
kernel/unwind/sframe.c +52 -3

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mm/init-mm.c +2 -0
index 4600e7605cab..b32fcf167cc2 100644
@@ -11,6 +11,7 @@
 #include <linux/atomic.h>
 #include <linux/user_namespace.h>
 #include <linux/iommu.h>
+#include <linux/sframe.h>
 #include <asm/mmu.h>
 
 #ifndef INIT_MM_CONTEXT
@@ -46,6 +47,7 @@ struct mm_struct init_mm = {
 	.user_ns	= &init_user_ns,
 	.cpu_bitmap	= CPU_BITS_NONE,
 	INIT_MM_CONTEXT(init_mm)
+	INIT_MM_SFRAME
 };
 
 void setup_initial_init_mm(void *start_code, void *end_code,
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#3 lore raw

PATCH v9 3/11 x86/uaccess: Add unsafe_copy_from_user() implementation

In reply to Steven Rostedt

From: Josh Poimboeuf <[email protected]>

Add an x86 implementation of unsafe_copy_from_user() similar to the existing unsafe_copy_to_user().

---
 arch/x86/include/asm/uaccess.h | 39 +++++++++++++++++++++++++---------
 1 file changed, 29 insertions(+), 10 deletions(-)
arch/x86/include/asm/uaccess.h +29 -10
index 3a7755c1a441..3caf02d0503e 100644
@@ -599,7 +599,7 @@ _label:									\
  * We want the unsafe accessors to always be inlined and use
  * the error labels - thus the macro games.
  */
-#define unsafe_copy_loop(dst, src, len, type, label)				\
+#define unsafe_copy_to_user_loop(dst, src, len, type, label)			\
 	while (len >= sizeof(type)) {						\
 		unsafe_put_user(*(type *)(src),(type __user *)(dst),label);	\
 		dst += sizeof(type);						\
@@ -607,15 +607,34 @@ _label:									\
 		len -= sizeof(type);						\
 	}
 
-#define unsafe_copy_to_user(_dst,_src,_len,label)			\
-do {									\
-	char __user *__ucu_dst = (_dst);				\
-	const char *__ucu_src = (_src);					\
-	size_t __ucu_len = (_len);					\
-	unsafe_copy_loop(__ucu_dst, __ucu_src, __ucu_len, u64, label);	\
-	unsafe_copy_loop(__ucu_dst, __ucu_src, __ucu_len, u32, label);	\
-	unsafe_copy_loop(__ucu_dst, __ucu_src, __ucu_len, u16, label);	\
-	unsafe_copy_loop(__ucu_dst, __ucu_src, __ucu_len, u8, label);	\
+#define unsafe_copy_to_user(_dst, _src, _len, label)				\
+do {										\
+	void __user *__dst = (_dst);						\
+	const void *__src = (_src);						\
+	size_t __len = (_len);							\
+	unsafe_copy_to_user_loop(__dst, __src, __len, u64, label);		\
+	unsafe_copy_to_user_loop(__dst, __src, __len, u32, label);		\
+	unsafe_copy_to_user_loop(__dst, __src, __len, u16, label);		\
+	unsafe_copy_to_user_loop(__dst, __src, __len, u8,  label);		\
+} while (0)
+
+#define unsafe_copy_from_user_loop(dst, src, len, type, label)			\
+	while (len >= sizeof(type)) {						\
+		unsafe_get_user(*(type *)(dst), (type __user *)(src), label);	\
+		dst += sizeof(type);						\
+		src += sizeof(type);						\
+		len -= sizeof(type);						\
+	}
+
+#define unsafe_copy_from_user(_dst, _src, _len, label)				\
+do {										\
+	void *__dst = (_dst);							\
+	void __user *__src = (_src);						\
+	size_t __len = (_len);							\
+	unsafe_copy_from_user_loop(__dst, __src, __len, u64, label);		\
+	unsafe_copy_from_user_loop(__dst, __src, __len, u32, label);		\
+	unsafe_copy_from_user_loop(__dst, __src, __len, u16, label);		\
+	unsafe_copy_from_user_loop(__dst, __src, __len, u8,  label);		\
 } while (0)
 
 #ifdef CONFIG_CC_HAS_ASM_GOTO_OUTPUT
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#4 lore raw

PATCH v9 4/11 unwind_user/sframe: Add support for reading .sframe contents

In reply to Steven Rostedt

From: Josh Poimboeuf <[email protected]>

In preparation for using sframe to unwind user space stacks, add an sframe_find() interface for finding the sframe information associated with a given text address.

For performance, use user_read_access_begin() and the corresponding unsafe_*() accessors. Note that use of pr_debug() in uaccess-enabled regions would break noinstr validation, so there aren't any debug messages yet. That will be added in a subsequent commit.

---
 include/linux/sframe.h       |   5 +
 kernel/unwind/sframe.c       | 311 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++-
 kernel/unwind/sframe_debug.h |  35 ++++
 3 files changed, 347 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)
 create mode 100644 kernel/unwind/sframe_debug.h
include/linux/sframe.h +5 -0
index 73bf6f0b30c2..9a72209696f9 100644
@@ -3,11 +3,14 @@
 #define _LINUX_SFRAME_H
 
 #include <linux/mm_types.h>
+#include <linux/srcu.h>
 #include <linux/unwind_user_types.h>
 
 #ifdef CONFIG_HAVE_UNWIND_USER_SFRAME
 
 struct sframe_section {
+	struct rcu_head	rcu;
+
 	unsigned long	sframe_start;
 	unsigned long	sframe_end;
 	unsigned long	text_start;
@@ -28,6 +31,7 @@ extern void sframe_free_mm(struct mm_struct *mm);
 extern int sframe_add_section(unsigned long sframe_start, unsigned long sframe_end,
 			      unsigned long text_start, unsigned long text_end);
 extern int sframe_remove_section(unsigned long sframe_addr);
+extern int sframe_find(unsigned long ip, struct unwind_user_frame *frame);
 
 static inline bool current_has_sframe(void)
 {
@@ -46,6 +50,7 @@ static inline int sframe_add_section(unsigned long sframe_start, unsigned long s
 	return -ENOSYS;
 }
 static inline int sframe_remove_section(unsigned long sframe_addr) { return -ENOSYS; }
+static inline int sframe_find(unsigned long ip, struct unwind_user_frame *frame) { return -ENOSYS; }
 static inline bool current_has_sframe(void) { return false; }
 
 #endif /* CONFIG_HAVE_UNWIND_USER_SFRAME */
kernel/unwind/sframe.c +307 -4

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kernel/unwind/sframe_debug.h new file +35 -0
new file mode 100644
index 000000000000..055c8c8fae24
@@ -0,0 +1,35 @@
+/* SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0 */
+#ifndef _SFRAME_DEBUG_H
+#define _SFRAME_DEBUG_H
+
+#include <linux/sframe.h>
+#include "sframe.h"
+
+#ifdef CONFIG_DYNAMIC_DEBUG
+
+#define dbg(fmt, ...)							\
+	pr_debug("%s (%d): " fmt, current->comm, current->pid, ##__VA_ARGS__)
+
+static __always_inline void dbg_print_header(struct sframe_section *sec)
+{
+	unsigned long fdes_end;
+
+	fdes_end = sec->fdes_start + (sec->num_fdes * sizeof(struct sframe_fde));
+
+	dbg("SEC: sframe:0x%lx-0x%lx text:0x%lx-0x%lx "
+	    "fdes:0x%lx-0x%lx fres:0x%lx-0x%lx "
+	    "ra_off:%d fp_off:%d\n",
+	    sec->sframe_start, sec->sframe_end, sec->text_start, sec->text_end,
+	    sec->fdes_start, fdes_end, sec->fres_start, sec->fres_end,
+	    sec->ra_off, sec->fp_off);
+}
+
+#else /* !CONFIG_DYNAMIC_DEBUG */
+
+#define dbg(args...)			no_printk(args)
+
+static inline void dbg_print_header(struct sframe_section *sec) {}
+
+#endif /* !CONFIG_DYNAMIC_DEBUG */
+
+#endif /* _SFRAME_DEBUG_H */
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#5 lore raw

PATCH v9 5/11 unwind_user/sframe: Detect .sframe sections in executables

In reply to Steven Rostedt

From: Josh Poimboeuf <[email protected]>

When loading an ELF executable, automatically detect an .sframe section and associate it with the mm_struct.

---
 fs/binfmt_elf.c          | 49 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++---
 include/uapi/linux/elf.h |  1 +
 2 files changed, 47 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)
fs/binfmt_elf.c +46 -3
index a43363d593e5..e7128d026ec0 100644
@@ -47,6 +47,7 @@
 #include <linux/dax.h>
 #include <linux/uaccess.h>
 #include <linux/rseq.h>
+#include <linux/sframe.h>
 #include <asm/param.h>
 #include <asm/page.h>
 
@@ -622,6 +623,21 @@ static inline int make_prot(u32 p_flags, struct arch_elf_state *arch_state,
 	return arch_elf_adjust_prot(prot, arch_state, has_interp, is_interp);
 }
 
+static void elf_add_sframe(struct elf_phdr *text, struct elf_phdr *sframe,
+			   unsigned long base_addr)
+{
+	unsigned long sframe_start, sframe_end, text_start, text_end;
+
+	sframe_start = base_addr + sframe->p_vaddr;
+	sframe_end   = sframe_start + sframe->p_memsz;
+
+	text_start   = base_addr + text->p_vaddr;
+	text_end     = text_start + text->p_memsz;
+
+	/* Ignore return value, sframe section isn't critical */
+	sframe_add_section(sframe_start, sframe_end, text_start, text_end);
+}
+
 /* This is much more generalized than the library routine read function,
    so we keep this separate.  Technically the library read function
    is only provided so that we can read a.out libraries that have
@@ -632,7 +648,7 @@ static unsigned long load_elf_interp(struct elfhdr *interp_elf_ex,
 		unsigned long no_base, struct elf_phdr *interp_elf_phdata,
 		struct arch_elf_state *arch_state)
 {
-	struct elf_phdr *eppnt;
+	struct elf_phdr *eppnt, *sframe_phdr = NULL;
 	unsigned long load_addr = 0;
 	int load_addr_set = 0;
 	unsigned long error = ~0UL;
@@ -658,7 +674,8 @@ static unsigned long load_elf_interp(struct elfhdr *interp_elf_ex,
 
 	eppnt = interp_elf_phdata;
 	for (i = 0; i < interp_elf_ex->e_phnum; i++, eppnt++) {
-		if (eppnt->p_type == PT_LOAD) {
+		switch (eppnt->p_type) {
+		case PT_LOAD: {
 			int elf_type = MAP_PRIVATE;
 			int elf_prot = make_prot(eppnt->p_flags, arch_state,
 						 true, true);
@@ -697,6 +714,20 @@ static unsigned long load_elf_interp(struct elfhdr *interp_elf_ex,
 				error = -ENOMEM;
 				goto out;
 			}
+			break;
+		}
+		case PT_GNU_SFRAME:
+			sframe_phdr = eppnt;
+			break;
+		}
+	}
+
+	if (sframe_phdr) {
+		eppnt = interp_elf_phdata;
+		for (i = 0; i < interp_elf_ex->e_phnum; i++, eppnt++) {
+			if (eppnt->p_flags & PF_X) {
+				elf_add_sframe(eppnt, sframe_phdr, load_addr);
+			}
 		}
 	}
 
@@ -821,7 +852,7 @@ static int load_elf_binary(struct linux_binprm *bprm)
 	int first_pt_load = 1;
 	unsigned long error;
 	struct elf_phdr *elf_ppnt, *elf_phdata, *interp_elf_phdata = NULL;
-	struct elf_phdr *elf_property_phdata = NULL;
+	struct elf_phdr *elf_property_phdata = NULL, *sframe_phdr = NULL;
 	unsigned long elf_brk;
 	bool brk_moved = false;
 	int retval, i;
@@ -930,6 +961,10 @@ static int load_elf_binary(struct linux_binprm *bprm)
 				executable_stack = EXSTACK_DISABLE_X;
 			break;
 
+		case PT_GNU_SFRAME:
+			sframe_phdr = elf_ppnt;
+			break;
+
 		case PT_LOPROC ... PT_HIPROC:
 			retval = arch_elf_pt_proc(elf_ex, elf_ppnt,
 						  bprm->file, false,
@@ -1227,6 +1262,14 @@ static int load_elf_binary(struct linux_binprm *bprm)
 			elf_brk = k;
 	}
 
+	if (sframe_phdr) {
+		for (i = 0, elf_ppnt = elf_phdata;
+		     i < elf_ex->e_phnum; i++, elf_ppnt++) {
+			if ((elf_ppnt->p_flags & PF_X))
+				elf_add_sframe(elf_ppnt, sframe_phdr, load_bias);
+		}
+	}
+
 	e_entry = elf_ex->e_entry + load_bias;
 	phdr_addr += load_bias;
 	elf_brk += load_bias;
include/uapi/linux/elf.h +1 -0
index 819ded2d39de..92c16c94fca8 100644
@@ -41,6 +41,7 @@ typedef __u16	Elf64_Versym;
 #define PT_GNU_STACK	(PT_LOOS + 0x474e551)
 #define PT_GNU_RELRO	(PT_LOOS + 0x474e552)
 #define PT_GNU_PROPERTY	(PT_LOOS + 0x474e553)
+#define PT_GNU_SFRAME	(PT_LOOS + 0x474e554)
 
 
 /* ARM MTE memory tag segment type */
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PATCH v9 6/11 unwind_user/sframe: Wire up unwind_user to sframe

In reply to Steven Rostedt

From: Josh Poimboeuf <[email protected]>

Now that the sframe infrastructure is fully in place, make it work by hooking it up to the unwind_user interface.

---
Changes since v8: https://lore.kernel.org/[email protected]

- Rebased on the changes by Mathieu in the user.c file
https://lore.kernel.org/all/[email protected]/

 arch/Kconfig                      |  1 +
 include/linux/unwind_user_types.h |  4 ++-
 kernel/unwind/user.c              | 41 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++--
 3 files changed, 43 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)
arch/Kconfig +1 -0
index edd6393512f5..f3b3e5a91f6d 100644
@@ -444,6 +444,7 @@ config HAVE_UNWIND_USER_FP
 
 config HAVE_UNWIND_USER_SFRAME
 	bool
+	select UNWIND_USER
 
 config HAVE_PERF_REGS
 	bool
include/linux/unwind_user_types.h +3 -1
index a449f15be890..d30e8495eaa9 100644
@@ -9,7 +9,8 @@
  * available.
  */
 enum unwind_user_type_bits {
-	UNWIND_USER_TYPE_FP_BIT =		0,
+	UNWIND_USER_TYPE_SFRAME_BIT =		0,
+	UNWIND_USER_TYPE_FP_BIT =		1,
 
 	NR_UNWIND_USER_TYPE_BITS,
 };
@@ -17,6 +18,7 @@ enum unwind_user_type_bits {
 enum unwind_user_type {
 	/* Type "none" for the start of stack walk iteration. */
 	UNWIND_USER_TYPE_NONE =			0,
+	UNWIND_USER_TYPE_SFRAME =		BIT(UNWIND_USER_TYPE_SFRAME_BIT),
 	UNWIND_USER_TYPE_FP =			BIT(UNWIND_USER_TYPE_FP_BIT),
 };
 
kernel/unwind/user.c +39 -2

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PATCH v9 7/11 unwind_user/sframe/x86: Enable sframe unwinding on x86

In reply to Steven Rostedt

From: Josh Poimboeuf <[email protected]>

The x86 sframe 2.0 implementation works fairly well, starting with binutils 2.41 (though some bugs are getting fixed in later versions). Enable it.

---
 arch/x86/Kconfig | 1 +
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)
arch/x86/Kconfig +1 -0
index 5862433c81e1..05dbfa3eb8ea 100644
@@ -303,6 +303,7 @@ config X86
 	select HAVE_UACCESS_VALIDATION		if HAVE_OBJTOOL
 	select HAVE_UNSTABLE_SCHED_CLOCK
 	select HAVE_UNWIND_USER_FP		if X86_64
+	select HAVE_UNWIND_USER_SFRAME		if X86_64
 	select HAVE_USER_RETURN_NOTIFIER
 	select HAVE_GENERIC_VDSO
 	select VDSO_GETRANDOM			if X86_64
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PATCH v9 8/11 unwind_user/sframe: Remove .sframe section on detected corruption

In reply to Steven Rostedt

From: Josh Poimboeuf <[email protected]>

To avoid continued attempted use of a bad .sframe section, remove it on demand when the first sign of corruption is detected.

---
 kernel/unwind/sframe.c | 4 ++++
 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+)
kernel/unwind/sframe.c +4 -0
index b10420d19840..f246ead6c2a0 100644
@@ -310,6 +310,10 @@ int sframe_find(unsigned long ip, struct unwind_user_frame *frame)
 	ret = __find_fre(sec, &fde, ip, frame);
 end:
 	user_read_access_end();
+
+	if (ret == -EFAULT)
+		WARN_ON_ONCE(sframe_remove_section(sec->sframe_start));
+
 	return ret;
 }
 
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PATCH v9 9/11 unwind_user/sframe: Show file name in debug output

In reply to Steven Rostedt

From: Josh Poimboeuf <[email protected]>

When debugging sframe issues, the error messages aren't all that helpful without knowing what file a corresponding .sframe section belongs to. Prefix debug output strings with the file name.

---
 include/linux/sframe.h       |  4 +++-
 kernel/unwind/sframe.c       | 23 ++++++++++--------
 kernel/unwind/sframe_debug.h | 45 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++-----
 3 files changed, 56 insertions(+), 16 deletions(-)
include/linux/sframe.h +3 -1
index 9a72209696f9..b79c5ec09229 100644
@@ -10,7 +10,9 @@
 
 struct sframe_section {
 	struct rcu_head	rcu;
-
+#ifdef CONFIG_DYNAMIC_DEBUG
+	const char	*filename;
+#endif
 	unsigned long	sframe_start;
 	unsigned long	sframe_end;
 	unsigned long	text_start;
kernel/unwind/sframe.c +14 -9
index f246ead6c2a0..66d3ba3c8389 100644
@@ -311,14 +311,17 @@ int sframe_find(unsigned long ip, struct unwind_user_frame *frame)
 end:
 	user_read_access_end();
 
-	if (ret == -EFAULT)
+	if (ret == -EFAULT) {
+		dbg_sec("removing bad .sframe section\n");
 		WARN_ON_ONCE(sframe_remove_section(sec->sframe_start));
+	}
 
 	return ret;
 }
 
 static void free_section(struct sframe_section *sec)
 {
+	dbg_free(sec);
 	kfree(sec);
 }
 
@@ -329,7 +332,7 @@ static int sframe_read_header(struct sframe_section *sec)
 	unsigned int num_fdes;
 
 	if (copy_from_user(&shdr, (void __user *)sec->sframe_start, sizeof(shdr))) {
-		dbg("header usercopy failed\n");
+		dbg_sec("header usercopy failed\n");
 		return -EFAULT;
 	}
 
@@ -337,18 +340,18 @@ static int sframe_read_header(struct sframe_section *sec)
 	    shdr.preamble.version != SFRAME_VERSION_2 ||
 	    !(shdr.preamble.flags & SFRAME_F_FDE_SORTED) ||
 	    shdr.auxhdr_len) {
-		dbg("bad/unsupported sframe header\n");
+		dbg_sec("bad/unsupported sframe header\n");
 		return -EINVAL;
 	}
 
 	if (!shdr.num_fdes || !shdr.num_fres) {
-		dbg("no fde/fre entries\n");
+		dbg_sec("no fde/fre entries\n");
 		return -EINVAL;
 	}
 
 	header_end = sec->sframe_start + SFRAME_HEADER_SIZE(shdr);
 	if (header_end >= sec->sframe_end) {
-		dbg("header doesn't fit in section\n");
+		dbg_sec("header doesn't fit in section\n");
 		return -EINVAL;
 	}
 
@@ -360,7 +363,7 @@ static int sframe_read_header(struct sframe_section *sec)
 	fres_end   = fres_start + shdr.fre_len;
 
 	if (fres_start < fdes_end || fres_end > sec->sframe_end) {
-		dbg("inconsistent fde/fre offsets\n");
+		dbg_sec("inconsistent fde/fre offsets\n");
 		return -EINVAL;
 	}
 
@@ -416,6 +419,8 @@ int sframe_add_section(unsigned long sframe_start, unsigned long sframe_end,
 	sec->text_start		= text_start;
 	sec->text_end		= text_end;
 
+	dbg_init(sec);
+
 	ret = sframe_read_header(sec);
 	if (ret) {
 		dbg_print_header(sec);
@@ -424,8 +429,8 @@ int sframe_add_section(unsigned long sframe_start, unsigned long sframe_end,
 
 	ret = mtree_insert_range(sframe_mt, sec->text_start, sec->text_end, sec, GFP_KERNEL);
 	if (ret) {
-		dbg("mtree_insert_range failed: text=%lx-%lx\n",
-		    sec->text_start, sec->text_end);
+		dbg_sec("mtree_insert_range failed: text=%lx-%lx\n",
+			sec->text_start, sec->text_end);
 		goto err_free;
 	}
 
@@ -447,7 +452,7 @@ static int __sframe_remove_section(struct mm_struct *mm,
 				   struct sframe_section *sec)
 {
 	if (!mtree_erase(&mm->sframe_mt, sec->text_start)) {
-		dbg("mtree_erase failed: text=%lx\n", sec->text_start);
+		dbg_sec("mtree_erase failed: text=%lx\n", sec->text_start);
 		return -EINVAL;
 	}
 
kernel/unwind/sframe_debug.h +39 -6

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PATCH v9 10/11 unwind_user/sframe: Add .sframe validation option

In reply to Steven Rostedt

From: Josh Poimboeuf <[email protected]>

Add a debug feature to validate all .sframe sections when first loading the file rather than on demand.

---
Changes since v8: https://lore.kernel.org/[email protected]

- Add "safe_read_fre()" and "safe_read_fde()" to call their respective functions with a user_read_access_begin() wrapper around them so that the validator can simply use dbg_sec() directly instead of a _uaccess() hacked version.

 arch/Kconfig           | 19 +++++++++
 kernel/unwind/sframe.c | 96 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
 2 files changed, 115 insertions(+)
arch/Kconfig +19 -0
index f3b3e5a91f6d..c2f12135db92 100644
@@ -446,6 +446,25 @@ config HAVE_UNWIND_USER_SFRAME
 	bool
 	select UNWIND_USER
 
+config SFRAME_VALIDATION
+	bool "Enable .sframe section debugging"
+	depends on HAVE_UNWIND_USER_SFRAME
+	depends on DYNAMIC_DEBUG
+	help
+	  When adding an .sframe section for a task, validate the entire
+	  section immediately rather than on demand.
+
+	  This is a debug feature which is helpful for rooting out .sframe
+	  section issues.  If the .sframe section is corrupt, it will fail to
+	  load immediately, with more information provided in dynamic printks.
+
+	  This has a significant page cache footprint due to its reading of the
+	  entire .sframe section for every loaded executable and shared
+	  library.  Also, it's done for all processes, even those which don't
+	  get stack traced by the kernel.  Not recommended for general use.
+
+	  If unsure, say N.
+
 config HAVE_PERF_REGS
 	bool
 	help
kernel/unwind/sframe.c +96 -0

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PATCH v9 11/11 unwind_user/sframe: Add prctl() interface for registering .sframe sections

In reply to Steven Rostedt

From: Josh Poimboeuf <[email protected]>

The kernel doesn't have direct visibility to the ELF contents of shared libraries. Add some prctl() interfaces which allow glibc to tell the kernel where to find .sframe sections.

[
This adds an interface for prctl() for testing loading of sframes for libraries. But this interface should really be a system call. This patch is for testing purposes only and should not be applied to mainline.
]

---
 include/uapi/linux/prctl.h | 6 +++++-
 kernel/sys.c               | 9 +++++++++
 2 files changed, 14 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
include/uapi/linux/prctl.h +5 -1
index 43dec6eed559..c575cf7151b1 100644
@@ -351,7 +351,7 @@ struct prctl_mm_map {
  * configuration.  All bits may be locked via this call, including
  * undefined bits.
  */
-#define PR_LOCK_SHADOW_STACK_STATUS      76
+#define PR_LOCK_SHADOW_STACK_STATUS	76
 
 /*
  * Controls the mode of timer_create() for CRIU restore operations.
@@ -371,4 +371,8 @@ struct prctl_mm_map {
 # define PR_FUTEX_HASH_GET_SLOTS	2
 # define PR_FUTEX_HASH_GET_IMMUTABLE	3
 
+/* SFRAME management */
+#define PR_ADD_SFRAME			79
+#define PR_REMOVE_SFRAME		80
+
 #endif /* _LINUX_PRCTL_H */
kernel/sys.c +9 -0
index adc0de0aa364..cf788e66dc86 100644
@@ -65,6 +65,7 @@
 #include <linux/rcupdate.h>
 #include <linux/uidgid.h>
 #include <linux/cred.h>
+#include <linux/sframe.h>
 
 #include <linux/nospec.h>
 
@@ -2824,6 +2825,14 @@ SYSCALL_DEFINE5(prctl, int, option, unsigned long, arg2, unsigned long, arg3,
 	case PR_FUTEX_HASH:
 		error = futex_hash_prctl(arg2, arg3, arg4);
 		break;
+	case PR_ADD_SFRAME:
+		error = sframe_add_section(arg2, arg3, arg4, arg5);
+		break;
+	case PR_REMOVE_SFRAME:
+		if (arg3 || arg4 || arg5)
+			return -EINVAL;
+		error = sframe_remove_section(arg2);
+		break;
 	default:
 		trace_task_prctl_unknown(option, arg2, arg3, arg4, arg5);
 		error = -EINVAL;
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