[PATCH v3] arm: fix a wrong value returned from CALLER_ADDRn

Russell King - ARM Linux linux at arm.linux.org.uk
Fri Mar 15 13:34:52 EDT 2013


On Thu, Mar 14, 2013 at 01:35:01PM +0900, kpark3469 at gmail.com wrote:
> From: Sahara <keun-o.park at windriver.com>
> 
> This makes return_address() return a correct value for CALLER_ADDRn.
> To have a correct value from CALLER_ADDRn, we need to fix three points.
> 
> * The unwind_frame() does not update frame->lr but frame->pc for backtrace.
> So frame->pc is meaningful for backtrace.
> 
> * data.level should be adjusted by adding 2 additional iteration levels.
> With the current +1 level adjustment, the result of CALLER_ADDR1 will
> be the same return address with CALLER_ADDR0.
> 
> * The initialization of data.addr to NULL is needed.
> When unwind_fame() fails right after data.level reaches zero,
> the routine returns data.addr which has uninitialized garbage value.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Sahara <keun-o.park at windriver.com>
> Reviewed-by: Dave Martin <dave.martin at linaro.org>

Please send this to the patch system.  I think we should let this sit
in -next for a bit (which we'll get anyway) to see what the effect is.



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