riscv: llvm-compiler: calling convention violation: temporary register $t2 is used to pass the ninth function parameter
Changbin Du
changbin.du at huawei.com
Sun May 8 20:49:51 PDT 2022
+cc hw.huiwang at huawei.com
On Mon, May 09, 2022 at 11:47:01AM +0800, Changbin Du wrote:
> Hello, folks,
>
> Recently I encountered a kernel crash problem when using ftrace with 'perf ftrace'
> command on risc-v kernel built with llvm.
>
> This crash only exists on llvm build, not reproducable with GCC. So I hope llvm
> guys can take a look :)
>
> The llvm versions I have tried are llvm-13.0.0 and mainline (commit 102bc634cb
> ("[runtime] Build compiler-rt with --unwindlib=none")).
>
> [ 612.947887][ T496] Unable to handle kernel NULL pointer dereference at virtual address 0000000000000001
> [ 613.050789][ T496] Hardware name: riscv-virtio,qemu (DT)
> [ 613.087976][ T496] epc : __find_rr_leaf+0x128/0x220
> [ 613.107493][ T496] ra : return_to_handler+0x22/0x24
> [ 613.125322][ T496] epc : ffffffff80a1915a ra : ffffffff80009506 sp : ff20000011e43860
> [ 613.150124][ T496] gp : ffffffff81812f40 tp : ff6000008bb01580 t0 : ff600000806cf0f0
> [ 613.173657][ T496] t1 : 000000000001b29a t2 : 0000000000000001 s0 : ff20000011e43920
> [ 613.187311][ T496] s1 : ff600000848c2a00 a0 : 0000000000000002 a1 : 0000000000000002
> [ 613.202731][ T496] a2 : fffffffffffffffd a3 : ff6000009d287000 a4 : 00000000000002c0
> [ 613.213723][ T496] a5 : ff6000009d259b40 a6 : ffffffffffffff9c a7 : ffffffffffffffff
> [ 613.226648][ T496] s2 : 0000000000000001 s3 : ff20000011e439d8 s4 : ffffffff8160d140
> [ 613.246571][ T496] s5 : 0000000000000002 s6 : 0000000000000000 s7 : 0000000000000000
> [ 613.264681][ T496] s8 : 0000000000000064 s9 : 0000000000000000 s10: 0000000000400000
> [ 613.277999][ T496] s11: ff600000848c2aa8 t3 : 0000000000000290 t4 : 00000000004002c0
> [ 613.303729][ T496] t5 : 00000000ffffffff t6 : ff6000009d2872d0
> [ 613.322145][ T496] status: 0000000200000120 badaddr: 0000000000000001 cause: 000000000000000d
> [ 613.346228][ T496] [<ffffffff80a12526>] ip6_pol_route+0xb6/0x602
> [ 613.365722][ T496] [<ffffffff80a1321a>] ip6_pol_route_output+0x2c/0x34
> [ 613.386374][ T496] [<ffffffff80a1c028>] fib6_rule_lookup+0x36/0xa0
> [ 613.401865][ T496] [<ffffffff80a131da>] ip6_route_output_flags_noref+0xd6/0xea
> [ 613.412776][ T496] [<ffffffff80a13274>] ip6_route_output_flags+0x52/0xd4
> [ 613.432013][ T496] [<ffffffff809ffb3a>] ip6_dst_lookup_tail+0x68/0x23a
> [ 613.456198][ T496] [<ffffffff809ffec6>] ip6_sk_dst_lookup_flow+0x132/0x1cc
> [ 613.513174][ T496] [<ffffffff80003cd8>] ret_from_syscall+0x0/0x2
> [ 613.518973][ T496] [<ffffffff800094e4>] return_to_handler+0x0/0x24
> [ 613.563961][ T496] Kernel panic - not syncing: Fatal exception
> [ 613.572278][ T496] SMP: stopping secondary CPUs
> [ 613.587449][ T496] ---[ end Kernel panic - not syncing: Fatal exception ]---
>
> The crash happened when dereferencing the point 'mpri' at route.c:758.
>
> (gdb) l *__find_rr_leaf+0x128
> 0xffffffff809da9c4 is in __find_rr_leaf (net/ipv6/route.c:758).
> 753
> 754 if (strict & RT6_LOOKUP_F_REACHABLE)
> 755 rt6_probe(nh);
> 756
> 757 /* note that m can be RT6_NUD_FAIL_PROBE at this point */
> 758 if (m > *mpri) {
> 759 *do_rr = match_do_rr;
> 760 *mpri = m;
> 761 rc = true;
> 762 }
>
> Adding some logs, I found the problem. The ninth passed parameter of function
> __find_rr_leaf() which is the address of local variable 'mpri', is changed to
> value '0x1' when inside the function __find_rr_leaf.
> Here is the code snippet and full link
> https://github.com/torvalds/linux/blob/9cb7c013420f98fa6fd12fc6a5dc055170c108db/net/ipv6/route.c.
>
> static void find_rr_leaf(struct fib6_node *fn, struct fib6_info *leaf,
> struct fib6_info *rr_head, int oif, int strict,
> bool *do_rr, struct fib6_result *res)
> {
> u32 metric = rr_head->fib6_metric;
> struct fib6_info *cont = NULL;
> int mpri = -1;
>
> __find_rr_leaf(rr_head, NULL, metric, res, &cont,
> oif, strict, do_rr, &mpri);
> ...
> }
>
> Then debugging with gdb, I found this probably is a compiler bug. We can see the
> local function __find_rr_leaf() is not optimized out and the compiler generates
> a local symbol for it. The find_rr_leaf() (inlined by fib6_table_lookup) invokes
> this function with 'jalr' instruction.
>
> (gdb) disassemble fib6_table_lookup
> Dump of assembler code for function fib6_table_lookup:
> [snip]
> 0xffffffff80a1240e <+412>: beqz a1,0xffffffff80a12436 <fib6_table_lookup+452>
> 0xffffffff80a12410 <+414>: slli a1,s9,0x20
> 0xffffffff80a12414 <+418>: srli a1,a1,0x20
> 0xffffffff80a12416 <+420>: sext.w a2,a1
> 0xffffffff80a1241a <+424>: addi a7,s0,-125
> 0xffffffff80a1241e <+428>: addi t2,s0,-124
> 0xffffffff80a12422 <+432>: li a1,0
> 0xffffffff80a12424 <+434>: mv a3,s10
> 0xffffffff80a12426 <+436>: li a4,0
> 0xffffffff80a12428 <+438>: ld a5,-152(s0)
> 0xffffffff80a1242c <+442>: mv a6,s8
> 0xffffffff80a1242e <+444>: auipc ra,0x7
> 0xffffffff80a12432 <+448>: jalr -686(ra) # 0xffffffff80a19180 <__find_rr_leaf>
> [snip]
>
> And at line route.c:758, the value of point 'mpri' is stored in temporary register
> $t2 and $s3 (copied from $t2).
>
> (gdb) info scope __find_rr_leaf
> [snip]
> Symbol mpri is multi-location:
> Base address 0xffffffff80a10564 Range 0xffffffff80a19190-0xffffffff80a191ae: a variable in $t2
> Range 0xffffffff80a191c0-0xffffffff80a191d6: a variable in $s3
> Range 0xffffffff80a19200-0xffffffff80a19208: a variable in $s3
> Range 0xffffffff80a1921e-0xffffffff80a192fe: a variable in $s3
> Range 0xffffffff80a1930a-0xffffffff80a19356: a variable in $s3
>
> Let's see when register $t2 is corrupted with single-step mode. Obviously, register
> $t2 is changed by mcount function ftrace_caller(). This is why the bug happens
> to ftrace.
>
> Dump of assembler code for function __find_rr_leaf:
> 0xffffffff80a19180 <+0>: sd ra,-8(sp) # $t2 = 0xff200000120db7b4
> 0xffffffff80a19184 <+4>: auipc ra,0xff5f1
> 0xffffffff80a19188 <+8>: jalr -1744(ra) # 0xffffffff80009ab4 <ftrace_caller> # $t2 = 0xff200000120db7b4
> => 0xffffffff80a1918c <+12>: ld ra,-8(sp) # $t2 = 0x1, bug, $t2 is corrupted!!
> 0xffffffff80a19190 <+16>: addi sp,sp,-176
> [snip]
>
> So now we can come to a conclusion. The generated local function __find_rr_leaf()
> violates the risc-v calling convention and leads to the panic. It should use stack
> but *not* temporary register $t2 to pass the ninth parameter! It's okay if the
> callsite can take care of local symbol callees, but the Function Instrumentation
> features should be considerated carefully.
>
> For comparison, here is the result from gcc (9.2.0):
> (gdb) info scope __find_rr_leaf
> [snip]
> Symbol mpri is a complex DWARF expression:
> 0: DW_OP_fbreg 0, length 8.
>
> I also built a simple test function with 9 parameters by clang and same cflags,
> but cannot reproduce it. Maybe it is conditional?
>
> Simple test code:
> __attribute__ ((noinline))
> void test_func(int *a, int *b, int *c, int *d, int *e, int *f, int *g, int *h, int *i)
> {
> printf("__find_rr_leaf: %d\n", *i);
> }
>
> int main(void)
> {
> int a,b,c,d,e,f,g,h,i = 100;
>
> test_func(&a,&b,&c,&d,&e,&f,&g,&h,&i);
> return 0;
> }
>
> --
> Cheers,
> Changbin Du
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Cheers,
Changbin Du
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