Re: [PATCH] stacktrace: print real address of trace entries

From: Mark Rutland
Date: Fri Sep 04 2020 - 12:07:45 EST


On Fri, Sep 04, 2020 at 07:00:24PM +0900, Haesung Kim wrote:
> If function is marked as static and compiler decies to lnline function
> with or without inline keyword, the function has no symbol.
> We just know symbol located near the address of the inline function
> by %pS type that shows symbol and offset. But we don't know function
> name.

What exactly is output in this case today? Can't you get the real
addr/symbol from scripts/faddr2line?

> The real address let us extract the function name and location of
> source code by debugging tools such as addr2line. This is helpful to
> debug.

Not logging the address was a deliberate decision to minimize leakage of
the kernel's VA layout. This undermines that, and I don't think doing so
is a good idea.

If there is a problem with faddr2line we should work out how to improve
that.

Mark.

>
> Signed-off-by: Haesung Kim <matia.kim@xxxxxxx>
> ---
> kernel/stacktrace.c | 11 ++++++++---
> 1 file changed, 8 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/kernel/stacktrace.c b/kernel/stacktrace.c
> index 946f44a..b7168c5 100644
> --- a/kernel/stacktrace.c
> +++ b/kernel/stacktrace.c
> @@ -24,12 +24,15 @@ void stack_trace_print(const unsigned long *entries, unsigned int nr_entries,
> int spaces)
> {
> unsigned int i;
> + unsigned long ip;
>
> if (WARN_ON(!entries))
> return;
>
> for (i = 0; i < nr_entries; i++)
> - printk("%*c%pS\n", 1 + spaces, ' ', (void *)entries[i]);
> + ip = entries[i];
> + printk("%*c[<%px>] %pS\n",
> + 1 + spaces, ' ', (void *) ip, (void *) ip);
> }
> EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(stack_trace_print);
>
> @@ -47,13 +50,15 @@ int stack_trace_snprint(char *buf, size_t size, const unsigned long *entries,
> unsigned int nr_entries, int spaces)
> {
> unsigned int generated, i, total = 0;
> + unsigned long ip;
>
> if (WARN_ON(!entries))
> return 0;
>
> for (i = 0; i < nr_entries && size; i++) {
> - generated = snprintf(buf, size, "%*c%pS\n", 1 + spaces, ' ',
> - (void *)entries[i]);
> + ip = entries[i];
> + generated = snprintf(buf, size, "%*c[<%px>] %pS\n",
> + 1 + spaces, ' ', (void *) ip, (void *) ip);
>
> total += generated;
> if (generated >= size) {
> --
> 2.7.4
>