[PATCH] ARM: return_address: disable again for CONFIG_ARM_UNWIND=y

Ard Biesheuvel ardb at kernel.org
Wed Mar 2 03:32:01 PST 2022


Commit 41918ec82eb6 ("ARM: ftrace: enable the graph tracer with the EABI
unwinder") removed the dummy version of return_address() that was
provided for the CONFIG_ARM_UNWIND=y case, on the assumption that the
removal of the kernel_text_address() call from unwind_frame() in the
preceding patch made it safe to do so.

However, this turns out not to be the case: Corentin reports warnings
about suspicious RCU usage and other strange behavior that seems to
originate in the stack unwinding that occurs in return_address().

Given that the function graph tracer (which is what these changes were
enabling for CONFIG_ARM_UNWIND=y builds) does not appear to care about
this distinction, let's revert return_address() to the old state.

Cc: Corentin Labbe <clabbe.montjoie at gmail.com>
Fixes: 41918ec82eb6 ("ARM: ftrace: enable the graph tracer with the EABI unwinder")
Signed-off-by: Ard Biesheuvel <ardb at kernel.org>
---
 arch/arm/include/asm/ftrace.h | 18 ++++++++++++++++++
 arch/arm/kernel/Makefile      |  5 ++++-
 2 files changed, 22 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/arch/arm/include/asm/ftrace.h b/arch/arm/include/asm/ftrace.h
index 5358aad67831..7e9251ca29fe 100644
--- a/arch/arm/include/asm/ftrace.h
+++ b/arch/arm/include/asm/ftrace.h
@@ -35,8 +35,26 @@ static inline unsigned long ftrace_call_adjust(unsigned long addr)
 
 #ifndef __ASSEMBLY__
 
+#if defined(CONFIG_FRAME_POINTER) && !defined(CONFIG_ARM_UNWIND)
+/*
+ * return_address uses walk_stackframe to do it's work.  If both
+ * CONFIG_FRAME_POINTER=y and CONFIG_ARM_UNWIND=y walk_stackframe uses unwind
+ * information.  For this to work in the function tracer many functions would
+ * have to be marked with __notrace.  So for now just depend on
+ * !CONFIG_ARM_UNWIND.
+ */
+
 void *return_address(unsigned int);
 
+#else
+
+static inline void *return_address(unsigned int level)
+{
+       return NULL;
+}
+
+#endif
+
 #define ftrace_return_address(n) return_address(n)
 
 #define ARCH_HAS_SYSCALL_MATCH_SYM_NAME
diff --git a/arch/arm/kernel/Makefile b/arch/arm/kernel/Makefile
index 5cebb8d5a1d6..56511856ff9d 100644
--- a/arch/arm/kernel/Makefile
+++ b/arch/arm/kernel/Makefile
@@ -25,7 +25,10 @@ obj-y		:= elf.o entry-common.o irq.o opcodes.o \
 KASAN_SANITIZE_stacktrace.o := n
 KASAN_SANITIZE_traps.o := n
 
-obj-y				+= return_address.o
+ifneq ($(CONFIG_ARM_UNWIND),y)
+obj-$(CONFIG_FRAME_POINTER)	+= return_address.o
+endif
+
 obj-$(CONFIG_ATAGS)		+= atags_parse.o
 obj-$(CONFIG_ATAGS_PROC)	+= atags_proc.o
 obj-$(CONFIG_DEPRECATED_PARAM_STRUCT) += atags_compat.o
-- 
2.30.2




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