[PATCH] arm:traps: Don't print stack or raw PC/LR values in backtraces

Xiaoming Ni nixiaoming at huawei.com
Fri Oct 9 03:59:57 EDT 2020


Printing raw pointer values in backtraces has potential security
implications and are of questionable value anyway.

This patch follows x86 and arm64's lead and removes the "Exception stack:"
dump from kernel backtraces:
	commit a25ffd3a6302a6 ("arm64: traps: Don't print stack or raw
	 PC/LR values in backtraces")
	commit 0ee1dd9f5e7eae ("x86/dumpstack: Remove raw stack dump")
	commit bb5e5ce545f203 ("x86/dumpstack: Remove kernel text
	 addresses from stack dump")

Signed-off-by: Xiaoming Ni <nixiaoming at huawei.com>
---
 arch/arm/kernel/process.c |  3 +--
 arch/arm/kernel/traps.c   | 12 +++++-------
 2 files changed, 6 insertions(+), 9 deletions(-)

diff --git a/arch/arm/kernel/process.c b/arch/arm/kernel/process.c
index 8e6ace03e960..71c9e5597d39 100644
--- a/arch/arm/kernel/process.c
+++ b/arch/arm/kernel/process.c
@@ -121,8 +121,7 @@ void __show_regs(struct pt_regs *regs)
 
 	printk("PC is at %pS\n", (void *)instruction_pointer(regs));
 	printk("LR is at %pS\n", (void *)regs->ARM_lr);
-	printk("pc : [<%08lx>]    lr : [<%08lx>]    psr: %08lx\n",
-	       regs->ARM_pc, regs->ARM_lr, regs->ARM_cpsr);
+	printk("psr: %08lx\n", regs->ARM_cpsr);
 	printk("sp : %08lx  ip : %08lx  fp : %08lx\n",
 	       regs->ARM_sp, regs->ARM_ip, regs->ARM_fp);
 	printk("r10: %08lx  r9 : %08lx  r8 : %08lx\n",
diff --git a/arch/arm/kernel/traps.c b/arch/arm/kernel/traps.c
index 17d5a785df28..b0b188e01070 100644
--- a/arch/arm/kernel/traps.c
+++ b/arch/arm/kernel/traps.c
@@ -60,23 +60,18 @@ static int __init user_debug_setup(char *str)
 __setup("user_debug=", user_debug_setup);
 #endif
 
-static void dump_mem(const char *, const char *, unsigned long, unsigned long);
-
 void dump_backtrace_entry(unsigned long where, unsigned long from,
 			  unsigned long frame, const char *loglvl)
 {
 	unsigned long end = frame + 4 + sizeof(struct pt_regs);
 
 #ifdef CONFIG_KALLSYMS
-	printk("%s[<%08lx>] (%ps) from [<%08lx>] (%pS)\n",
-		loglvl, where, (void *)where, from, (void *)from);
+	printk("%s (%ps) from (%pS)\n",
+		loglvl, (void *)where, (void *)from);
 #else
 	printk("%sFunction entered at [<%08lx>] from [<%08lx>]\n",
 		loglvl, where, from);
 #endif
-
-	if (in_entry_text(from) && end <= ALIGN(frame, THREAD_SIZE))
-		dump_mem(loglvl, "Exception stack", frame + 4, end);
 }
 
 void dump_backtrace_stm(u32 *stack, u32 instruction, const char *loglvl)
@@ -125,6 +120,9 @@ static void dump_mem(const char *lvl, const char *str, unsigned long bottom,
 	mm_segment_t fs;
 	int i;
 
+	/* Do not print virtual addresses in non-reset scenarios */
+	if (!panic_on_oops)
+		return;
 	/*
 	 * We need to switch to kernel mode so that we can use __get_user
 	 * to safely read from kernel space.  Note that we now dump the
-- 
2.27.0




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