[PATCH 2/4] arm64: traps: Don't print stack or raw PC/LR values in backtraces

Will Deacon will.deacon at arm.com
Thu Oct 19 08:55:32 PDT 2017


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

This patch follows x86's lead and removes the "Exception stack:" dump
from kernel backtraces, as well as converting PC/LR values to symbols
such as "sysrq_handle_crash+0x20/0x30".

Signed-off-by: Will Deacon <will.deacon at arm.com>
---
 arch/arm64/kernel/process.c |  8 +++---
 arch/arm64/kernel/traps.c   | 65 +++------------------------------------------
 2 files changed, 6 insertions(+), 67 deletions(-)

diff --git a/arch/arm64/kernel/process.c b/arch/arm64/kernel/process.c
index 2dc0f8482210..c20896b8fb2d 100644
--- a/arch/arm64/kernel/process.c
+++ b/arch/arm64/kernel/process.c
@@ -186,11 +186,9 @@ void __show_regs(struct pt_regs *regs)
 	}
 
 	show_regs_print_info(KERN_DEFAULT);
-	print_symbol("PC is at %s\n", instruction_pointer(regs));
-	print_symbol("LR is at %s\n", lr);
-	printk("pc : [<%016llx>] lr : [<%016llx>] pstate: %08llx\n",
-	       regs->pc, lr, regs->pstate);
-	printk("sp : %016llx\n", sp);
+	print_symbol("pc : %s\n", regs->pc);
+	print_symbol("lr : %s\n", lr);
+	printk("sp : %016llx pstate : %08llx\n", sp, regs->pstate);
 
 	i = top_reg;
 
diff --git a/arch/arm64/kernel/traps.c b/arch/arm64/kernel/traps.c
index 5ea4b85aee0e..57794773863c 100644
--- a/arch/arm64/kernel/traps.c
+++ b/arch/arm64/kernel/traps.c
@@ -58,55 +58,9 @@ static const char *handler[]= {
 
 int show_unhandled_signals = 1;
 
-/*
- * Dump out the contents of some kernel memory nicely...
- */
-static void dump_mem(const char *lvl, const char *str, unsigned long bottom,
-		     unsigned long top)
-{
-	unsigned long first;
-	mm_segment_t fs;
-	int i;
-
-	/*
-	 * We need to switch to kernel mode so that we can use __get_user
-	 * to safely read from kernel space.
-	 */
-	fs = get_fs();
-	set_fs(KERNEL_DS);
-
-	printk("%s%s(0x%016lx to 0x%016lx)\n", lvl, str, bottom, top);
-
-	for (first = bottom & ~31; first < top; first += 32) {
-		unsigned long p;
-		char str[sizeof(" 12345678") * 8 + 1];
-
-		memset(str, ' ', sizeof(str));
-		str[sizeof(str) - 1] = '\0';
-
-		for (p = first, i = 0; i < (32 / 8)
-					&& p < top; i++, p += 8) {
-			if (p >= bottom && p < top) {
-				unsigned long val;
-
-				if (__get_user(val, (unsigned long *)p) == 0)
-					sprintf(str + i * 17, " %016lx", val);
-				else
-					sprintf(str + i * 17, " ????????????????");
-			}
-		}
-		printk("%s%04lx:%s\n", lvl, first & 0xffff, str);
-	}
-
-	set_fs(fs);
-}
-
 static void dump_backtrace_entry(unsigned long where)
 {
-	/*
-	 * Note that 'where' can have a physical address, but it's not handled.
-	 */
-	print_ip_sym(where);
+	printk(" %pS\n", (void *)where);
 }
 
 static void __dump_instr(const char *lvl, struct pt_regs *regs)
@@ -171,10 +125,7 @@ void dump_backtrace(struct pt_regs *regs, struct task_struct *tsk)
 
 	skip = !!regs;
 	printk("Call trace:\n");
-	while (1) {
-		unsigned long stack;
-		int ret;
-
+	do {
 		/* skip until specified stack frame */
 		if (!skip) {
 			dump_backtrace_entry(frame.pc);
@@ -189,17 +140,7 @@ void dump_backtrace(struct pt_regs *regs, struct task_struct *tsk)
 			 */
 			dump_backtrace_entry(regs->pc);
 		}
-		ret = unwind_frame(tsk, &frame);
-		if (ret < 0)
-			break;
-		if (in_entry_text(frame.pc)) {
-			stack = frame.fp - offsetof(struct pt_regs, stackframe);
-
-			if (on_accessible_stack(tsk, stack))
-				dump_mem("", "Exception stack", stack,
-					 stack + sizeof(struct pt_regs));
-		}
-	}
+	} while (!unwind_frame(tsk, &frame));
 
 	put_task_stack(tsk);
 }
-- 
2.1.4




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