[PATCH] arm:traps:Don't dump the memory in non-system reset scenarios

Xiaoming Ni nixiaoming at huawei.com
Mon Oct 26 02:31:06 EDT 2020


Do not dump the memory in non-system reset scenarios to prevent virtual
 address information leakage.

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")

Signed-off-by: Xiaoming Ni <nixiaoming at huawei.com>
---
 arch/arm/kernel/traps.c | 13 ++++++-------
 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+), 7 deletions(-)

diff --git a/arch/arm/kernel/traps.c b/arch/arm/kernel/traps.c
index 911bbf164875..34e268378972 100644
--- a/arch/arm/kernel/traps.c
+++ b/arch/arm/kernel/traps.c
@@ -60,13 +60,9 @@ 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 (%ps) from (%pS)\n",
 		loglvl, (void *)where, (void *)from);
@@ -74,9 +70,6 @@ void dump_backtrace_entry(unsigned long where, unsigned long from,
 	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 +118,12 @@ static void dump_mem(const char *lvl, const char *str, unsigned long bottom,
 	mm_segment_t fs;
 	int i;
 
+	/*
+	 * To prevent virtual address information leakage, memory
+	 * information cannot be printed in non-reset scenarios.
+	 */
+	if (panic_on_oops == 0)
+		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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