[tip:x86/asm] x86/dumpstack/ftrace: Don't print unreliable addresses in print_context_stack_bp()

From: tip-bot for Josh Poimboeuf
Date: Wed Aug 24 2016 - 09:46:06 EST


Commit-ID: 13e25bab7e51bdd4ba7df1ef2388961294bb565e
Gitweb: http://git.kernel.org/tip/13e25bab7e51bdd4ba7df1ef2388961294bb565e
Author: Josh Poimboeuf <jpoimboe@xxxxxxxxxx>
AuthorDate: Fri, 19 Aug 2016 06:53:02 -0500
Committer: Ingo Molnar <mingo@xxxxxxxxxx>
CommitDate: Wed, 24 Aug 2016 12:15:15 +0200

x86/dumpstack/ftrace: Don't print unreliable addresses in print_context_stack_bp()

When function graph tracing is enabled, print_context_stack_bp() can
report return_to_handler() as an unreliable address, which is confusing
and misleading: return_to_handler() is really only useful as a hint for
debugging, whereas print_context_stack_bp() users only care about the
actual 'reliable' call path.

Signed-off-by: Josh Poimboeuf <jpoimboe@xxxxxxxxxx>
Acked-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@xxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Andy Lutomirski <luto@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Andy Lutomirski <luto@xxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Borislav Petkov <bp@xxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Brian Gerst <brgerst@xxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Byungchul Park <byungchul.park@xxxxxxx>
Cc: Denys Vlasenko <dvlasenk@xxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@xxxxxxxxx>
Cc: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@xxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Kees Cook <keescook@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Nilay Vaish <nilayvaish@xxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/c51aef578d8027791b38d2ad9bac0c7f499fde91.1471607358.git.jpoimboe@xxxxxxxxxx
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@xxxxxxxxxx>
---
arch/x86/kernel/dumpstack.c | 2 --
1 file changed, 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/arch/x86/kernel/dumpstack.c b/arch/x86/kernel/dumpstack.c
index 6aad8d4..01072e9 100644
--- a/arch/x86/kernel/dumpstack.c
+++ b/arch/x86/kernel/dumpstack.c
@@ -126,8 +126,6 @@ print_context_stack_bp(struct task_struct *task,
break;

real_addr = ftrace_graph_ret_addr(task, graph, addr, retp);
- if (real_addr != addr && ops->address(data, addr, 0))
- break;
if (ops->address(data, real_addr, 1))
break;