x86/unwind: Silence warnings for non-current tasks
authorJosh Poimboeuf <jpoimboe@redhat.com>
Mon, 9 Jan 2017 18:00:22 +0000 (12:00 -0600)
committerIngo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Thu, 12 Jan 2017 08:28:27 +0000 (09:28 +0100)
commit900742d89c1b4e04bd373aec8470b88e183f08ca
tree55d419fce1645ecdcdae48c81cdf6a8389dc9db0
parent2e86222c67bb5d942da68e8415749b32db208534
x86/unwind: Silence warnings for non-current tasks

There are a handful of callers to save_stack_trace_tsk() and
show_stack() which try to unwind the stack of a task other than current.
In such cases, it's remotely possible that the task is running on one
CPU while the unwinder is reading its stack from another CPU, causing
the unwinder to see stack corruption.

These cases seem to be mostly harmless.  The unwinder has checks which
prevent it from following bad pointers beyond the bounds of the stack.
So it's not really a bug as long as the caller understands that
unwinding another task will not always succeed.

Since stack "corruption" on another task's stack isn't necessarily a
bug, silence the warnings when unwinding tasks other than current.

Reported-by: Dave Jones <davej@codemonkey.org.uk>
Signed-off-by: Josh Poimboeuf <jpoimboe@redhat.com>
Cc: Andy Lutomirski <luto@amacapital.net>
Cc: Andy Lutomirski <luto@kernel.org>
Cc: Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de>
Cc: Brian Gerst <brgerst@gmail.com>
Cc: Denys Vlasenko <dvlasenk@redhat.com>
Cc: Dmitry Vyukov <dvyukov@google.com>
Cc: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Miroslav Benes <mbenes@suse.cz>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/00d8c50eea3446c1524a2a755397a3966629354c.1483978430.git.jpoimboe@redhat.com
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
arch/x86/kernel/unwind_frame.c