[PATCH v4 00/13] Add build ID to stacktraces

Stephen Boyd swboyd at chromium.org
Sat Apr 10 02:52:47 BST 2021


This series adds the kernel's build ID[1] to the stacktrace header printed
in oops messages, warnings, etc. and the build ID for any module that
appears in the stacktrace after the module name. The goal is to make the
stacktrace more self-contained and descriptive by including the relevant
build IDs in the kernel logs when something goes wrong. This can be used
by post processing tools like script/decode_stacktrace.sh and kernel
developers to easily locate the debug info associated with a kernel
crash and line up what line and file things started falling apart at.

To show how this can be used I've included a patch to
decode_stacktrace.sh that downloads the debuginfo from a debuginfod
server.

This also includes some patches to make the buildid.c file use more
const arguments and consolidate logic into buildid.c from kdump. These
are left to the end as they were mostly cleanup patches. I don't know
who exactly maintains this so I guess Andrew is the best option to merge
all this code.

Here's an example lkdtm stacktrace on arm64.

 WARNING: CPU: 4 PID: 3255 at drivers/misc/lkdtm/bugs.c:83 lkdtm_WARNING+0x28/0x30 [lkdtm]
 Modules linked in: lkdtm rfcomm algif_hash algif_skcipher af_alg xt_cgroup uinput xt_MASQUERADE
 CPU: 4 PID: 3255 Comm: bash Not tainted 5.11 #3 aa23f7a1231c229de205662d5a9e0d4c580f19a1
 Hardware name: Google Lazor (rev3+) with KB Backlight (DT)
 pstate: 00400009 (nzcv daif +PAN -UAO -TCO BTYPE=--)
 pc : lkdtm_WARNING+0x28/0x30 [lkdtm]
 lr : lkdtm_do_action+0x24/0x40 [lkdtm]
 sp : ffffffc0134fbca0
 x29: ffffffc0134fbca0 x28: ffffff92d53ba240
 x27: 0000000000000000 x26: 0000000000000000
 x25: 0000000000000000 x24: ffffffe3622352c0
 x23: 0000000000000020 x22: ffffffe362233366
 x21: ffffffe3622352e0 x20: ffffffc0134fbde0
 x19: 0000000000000008 x18: 0000000000000000
 x17: ffffff929b6536fc x16: 0000000000000000
 x15: 0000000000000000 x14: 0000000000000012
 x13: ffffffe380ed892c x12: ffffffe381d05068
 x11: 0000000000000000 x10: 0000000000000000
 x9 : 0000000000000001 x8 : ffffffe362237000
 x7 : aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa x6 : 0000000000000000
 x5 : 0000000000000000 x4 : 0000000000000001
 x3 : 0000000000000008 x2 : ffffff93fef25a70
 x1 : ffffff93fef15788 x0 : ffffffe3622352e0
 Call trace:
  lkdtm_WARNING+0x28/0x30 [lkdtm ed5019fdf5e53be37cb1ba7899292d7e143b259e]
  direct_entry+0x16c/0x1b4 [lkdtm ed5019fdf5e53be37cb1ba7899292d7e143b259e]
  full_proxy_write+0x74/0xa4
  vfs_write+0xec/0x2e8
  ksys_write+0x84/0xf0
  __arm64_sys_write+0x24/0x30
  el0_svc_common+0xf4/0x1c0
  do_el0_svc_compat+0x28/0x3c
  el0_svc_compat+0x10/0x1c
  el0_sync_compat_handler+0xa8/0xcc
  el0_sync_compat+0x178/0x180
 ---[ end trace 3d95032303e59e68 ]---

Changes from v3 (https://lore.kernel.org/r/20210331030520.3816265-1-swboyd@chromium.org):
 * Fixed compilation warnings due to config changes
 * Fixed kernel-doc on init_vmlinx_build_id()
 * Totally removed add_build_id_vmcoreinfo()
 * Added another printk format %pBb to help x86 print backtraces
 * Some BUILD_BUG_ON() checks to make sure the buildid doesn't get bigger or smaller

Changes from v2 (https://lore.kernel.org/r/20210324020443.1815557-1-swboyd@chromium.org):
 * Renamed symbol printing function to indicate build IDness
 * Put build ID information behind Kconfig knob
 * Build ID for vmlinux is calculated in early init instead of on demand
 * printk format is %pS[R]b

Changes from v1 (https://lore.kernel.org/r/20210301174749.1269154-1-swboyd@chromium.org):
 * New printk format %pSb and %pSr
 * Return binary format instead of hex format string from build ID APIs
 * Some new patches to cleanup buildid/decode_stacktrace.sh
 * A new patch to decode_stacktrace.sh to parse output

[1] https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Releases/FeatureBuildId

Cc: Alexei Starovoitov <ast at kernel.org>
Cc: Andy Shevchenko <andriy.shevchenko at linux.intel.com>
Cc: Baoquan He <bhe at redhat.com>
Cc: Borislav Petkov <bp at alien8.de>
Cc: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas at arm.com>
Cc: Dave Young <dyoung at redhat.com>
Cc: Evan Green <evgreen at chromium.org>
Cc: Hsin-Yi Wang <hsinyi at chromium.org>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo at redhat.com>
Cc: Jessica Yu <jeyu at kernel.org>
Cc: Jiri Olsa <jolsa at kernel.org>
Cc: <kexec at lists.infradead.org>
Cc: Konstantin Khlebnikov <khlebnikov at yandex-team.ru>
Cc: <linux-arm-kernel at lists.infradead.org>
Cc: <linux-doc at vger.kernel.org>
Cc: <linux-kernel at vger.kernel.org>
Cc: Matthew Wilcox <willy at infradead.org>
Cc: Petr Mladek <pmladek at suse.com>
Cc: Rasmus Villemoes <linux at rasmusvillemoes.dk>
Cc: Sasha Levin <sashal at kernel.org>
Cc: Sergey Senozhatsky <sergey.senozhatsky at gmail.com>
Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt at goodmis.org>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx at linutronix.de>
Cc: Vivek Goyal <vgoyal at redhat.com>
Cc: Will Deacon <will at kernel.org>
Cc: <x86 at kernel.org>
Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch at infradead.org>
Cc: peter enderborg <peter.enderborg at sony.com>


Stephen Boyd (13):
  buildid: Only consider GNU notes for build ID parsing
  buildid: Add API to parse build ID out of buffer
  buildid: Stash away kernels build ID on init
  dump_stack: Add vmlinux build ID to stack traces
  module: Add printk formats to add module build ID to stacktraces
  arm64: stacktrace: Use %pSb for backtrace printing
  x86/dumpstack: Use %pSb/%pBb for backtrace printing
  scripts/decode_stacktrace.sh: Support debuginfod
  scripts/decode_stacktrace.sh: Silence stderr messages from
    addr2line/nm
  scripts/decode_stacktrace.sh: Indicate 'auto' can be used for base
    path
  buildid: Mark some arguments const
  buildid: Fix kernel-doc notation
  kdump: Use vmlinux_build_id to simplify

 Documentation/core-api/printk-formats.rst | 11 +++
 arch/arm64/kernel/stacktrace.c            |  2 +-
 arch/x86/kernel/dumpstack.c               |  6 +-
 include/linux/buildid.h                   |  4 +
 include/linux/crash_core.h                |  7 +-
 include/linux/kallsyms.h                  | 20 ++++-
 include/linux/module.h                    |  6 +-
 init/main.c                               |  1 +
 kernel/crash_core.c                       | 50 +-----------
 kernel/kallsyms.c                         | 95 ++++++++++++++++++-----
 kernel/module.c                           | 24 +++++-
 lib/Kconfig.debug                         | 11 +++
 lib/buildid.c                             | 72 +++++++++++++----
 lib/dump_stack.c                          | 13 +++-
 lib/vsprintf.c                            |  8 +-
 scripts/decode_stacktrace.sh              | 89 +++++++++++++++++----
 16 files changed, 304 insertions(+), 115 deletions(-)


base-commit: a38fd8748464831584a19438cbb3082b5a2dab15
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