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<title>x86/dumpstack: Prevent KASAN false positive warnings in __show_regs()</title>
<updated>2026-01-11T14:21:17+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Tengda Wu</name>
<email>wutengda@huaweicloud.com</email>
</author>
<published>2025-10-23T09:06:32+00:00</published>
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[ Upstream commit ced37e9ceae50e4cb6cd058963bd315ec9afa651 ]

When triggering a stack dump via sysrq (echo t &gt; /proc/sysrq-trigger),
KASAN may report false-positive out-of-bounds access:

  BUG: KASAN: out-of-bounds in __show_regs+0x4b/0x340
  Call Trace:
    dump_stack_lvl
    print_address_description.constprop.0
    print_report
    __show_regs
    show_trace_log_lvl
    sched_show_task
    show_state_filter
    sysrq_handle_showstate
    __handle_sysrq
    write_sysrq_trigger
    proc_reg_write
    vfs_write
    ksys_write
    do_syscall_64
    entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe

The issue occurs as follows:

  Task A (walk other tasks' stacks)           Task B (running)
  1. echo t &gt; /proc/sysrq-trigger
  show_trace_log_lvl
    regs = unwind_get_entry_regs()
    show_regs_if_on_stack(regs)
                                              2. The stack value pointed by
                                                 `regs` keeps changing, and
                                                 so are the tags in its
                                                 KASAN shadow region.
      __show_regs(regs)
        regs-&gt;ax, regs-&gt;bx, ...
          3. hit KASAN redzones, OOB

When task A walks task B's stack without suspending it, the continuous changes
in task B's stack (and corresponding KASAN shadow tags) may cause task A to
hit KASAN redzones when accessing obsolete values on the stack, resulting in
false positive reports.

Simply stopping the task before unwinding is not a viable fix, as it would
alter the state intended to inspect. This is especially true for diagnosing
misbehaving tasks (e.g., in a hard lockup), where stopping might fail or hide
the root cause by changing the call stack.

Therefore, fix this by disabling KASAN checks during asynchronous stack
unwinding, which is identified when the unwinding task does not match the
current task (task != current).

  [ bp: Align arguments on function's opening brace. ]

Fixes: 3b3fa11bc700 ("x86/dumpstack: Print any pt_regs found on the stack")
Signed-off-by: Tengda Wu &lt;wutengda@huaweicloud.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Borislav Petkov (AMD) &lt;bp@alien8.de&gt;
Reviewed-by: Andrey Ryabinin &lt;ryabinin.a.a@gmail.com&gt;
Acked-by: Josh Poimboeuf &lt;jpoimboe@kernel.org&gt;
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/all/20251023090632.269121-1-wutengda@huaweicloud.com
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin &lt;sashal@kernel.org&gt;
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[ Upstream commit ced37e9ceae50e4cb6cd058963bd315ec9afa651 ]

When triggering a stack dump via sysrq (echo t &gt; /proc/sysrq-trigger),
KASAN may report false-positive out-of-bounds access:

  BUG: KASAN: out-of-bounds in __show_regs+0x4b/0x340
  Call Trace:
    dump_stack_lvl
    print_address_description.constprop.0
    print_report
    __show_regs
    show_trace_log_lvl
    sched_show_task
    show_state_filter
    sysrq_handle_showstate
    __handle_sysrq
    write_sysrq_trigger
    proc_reg_write
    vfs_write
    ksys_write
    do_syscall_64
    entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe

The issue occurs as follows:

  Task A (walk other tasks' stacks)           Task B (running)
  1. echo t &gt; /proc/sysrq-trigger
  show_trace_log_lvl
    regs = unwind_get_entry_regs()
    show_regs_if_on_stack(regs)
                                              2. The stack value pointed by
                                                 `regs` keeps changing, and
                                                 so are the tags in its
                                                 KASAN shadow region.
      __show_regs(regs)
        regs-&gt;ax, regs-&gt;bx, ...
          3. hit KASAN redzones, OOB

When task A walks task B's stack without suspending it, the continuous changes
in task B's stack (and corresponding KASAN shadow tags) may cause task A to
hit KASAN redzones when accessing obsolete values on the stack, resulting in
false positive reports.

Simply stopping the task before unwinding is not a viable fix, as it would
alter the state intended to inspect. This is especially true for diagnosing
misbehaving tasks (e.g., in a hard lockup), where stopping might fail or hide
the root cause by changing the call stack.

Therefore, fix this by disabling KASAN checks during asynchronous stack
unwinding, which is identified when the unwinding task does not match the
current task (task != current).

  [ bp: Align arguments on function's opening brace. ]

Fixes: 3b3fa11bc700 ("x86/dumpstack: Print any pt_regs found on the stack")
Signed-off-by: Tengda Wu &lt;wutengda@huaweicloud.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Borislav Petkov (AMD) &lt;bp@alien8.de&gt;
Reviewed-by: Andrey Ryabinin &lt;ryabinin.a.a@gmail.com&gt;
Acked-by: Josh Poimboeuf &lt;jpoimboe@kernel.org&gt;
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/all/20251023090632.269121-1-wutengda@huaweicloud.com
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin &lt;sashal@kernel.org&gt;
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<entry>
<title>x86/dumpstack: Fix inaccurate unwinding from exception stacks due to misplaced assignment</title>
<updated>2025-04-10T12:37:32+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Jann Horn</name>
<email>jannh@google.com</email>
</author>
<published>2025-03-25T02:01:23+00:00</published>
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[ Upstream commit 2c118f50d7fd4d9aefc4533a26f83338b2906b7a ]

Commit:

  2e4be0d011f2 ("x86/show_trace_log_lvl: Ensure stack pointer is aligned, again")

was intended to ensure alignment of the stack pointer; but it also moved
the initialization of the "stack" variable down into the loop header.

This was likely intended as a no-op cleanup, since the commit
message does not mention it; however, this caused a behavioral change
because the value of "regs" is different between the two places.

Originally, get_stack_pointer() used the regs provided by the caller; after
that commit, get_stack_pointer() instead uses the regs at the top of the
stack frame the unwinder is looking at. Often, there are no such regs at
all, and "regs" is NULL, causing get_stack_pointer() to fall back to the
task's current stack pointer, which is not what we want here, but probably
happens to mostly work. Other times, the original regs will point to
another regs frame - in that case, the linear guess unwind logic in
show_trace_log_lvl() will start unwinding too far up the stack, causing the
first frame found by the proper unwinder to never be visited, resulting in
a stack trace consisting purely of guess lines.

Fix it by moving the "stack = " assignment back where it belongs.

Fixes: 2e4be0d011f2 ("x86/show_trace_log_lvl: Ensure stack pointer is aligned, again")
Signed-off-by: Jann Horn &lt;jannh@google.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@kernel.org&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20250325-2025-03-unwind-fixes-v1-2-acd774364768@google.com
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin &lt;sashal@kernel.org&gt;
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[ Upstream commit 2c118f50d7fd4d9aefc4533a26f83338b2906b7a ]

Commit:

  2e4be0d011f2 ("x86/show_trace_log_lvl: Ensure stack pointer is aligned, again")

was intended to ensure alignment of the stack pointer; but it also moved
the initialization of the "stack" variable down into the loop header.

This was likely intended as a no-op cleanup, since the commit
message does not mention it; however, this caused a behavioral change
because the value of "regs" is different between the two places.

Originally, get_stack_pointer() used the regs provided by the caller; after
that commit, get_stack_pointer() instead uses the regs at the top of the
stack frame the unwinder is looking at. Often, there are no such regs at
all, and "regs" is NULL, causing get_stack_pointer() to fall back to the
task's current stack pointer, which is not what we want here, but probably
happens to mostly work. Other times, the original regs will point to
another regs frame - in that case, the linear guess unwind logic in
show_trace_log_lvl() will start unwinding too far up the stack, causing the
first frame found by the proper unwinder to never be visited, resulting in
a stack trace consisting purely of guess lines.

Fix it by moving the "stack = " assignment back where it belongs.

Fixes: 2e4be0d011f2 ("x86/show_trace_log_lvl: Ensure stack pointer is aligned, again")
Signed-off-by: Jann Horn &lt;jannh@google.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@kernel.org&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20250325-2025-03-unwind-fixes-v1-2-acd774364768@google.com
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin &lt;sashal@kernel.org&gt;
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<entry>
<title>x86/show_trace_log_lvl: Ensure stack pointer is aligned, again</title>
<updated>2023-05-16T13:31:04+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Vernon Lovejoy</name>
<email>vlovejoy@redhat.com</email>
</author>
<published>2023-05-12T10:42:32+00:00</published>
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The commit e335bb51cc15 ("x86/unwind: Ensure stack pointer is aligned")
tried to align the stack pointer in show_trace_log_lvl(), otherwise the
"stack &lt; stack_info.end" check can't guarantee that the last read does
not go past the end of the stack.

However, we have the same problem with the initial value of the stack
pointer, it can also be unaligned. So without this patch this trivial
kernel module

	#include &lt;linux/module.h&gt;

	static int init(void)
	{
		asm volatile("sub    $0x4,%rsp");
		dump_stack();
		asm volatile("add    $0x4,%rsp");

		return -EAGAIN;
	}

	module_init(init);
	MODULE_LICENSE("GPL");

crashes the kernel.

Fixes: e335bb51cc15 ("x86/unwind: Ensure stack pointer is aligned")
Signed-off-by: Vernon Lovejoy &lt;vlovejoy@redhat.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov &lt;oleg@redhat.com&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20230512104232.GA10227@redhat.com
Signed-off-by: Josh Poimboeuf &lt;jpoimboe@kernel.org&gt;
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The commit e335bb51cc15 ("x86/unwind: Ensure stack pointer is aligned")
tried to align the stack pointer in show_trace_log_lvl(), otherwise the
"stack &lt; stack_info.end" check can't guarantee that the last read does
not go past the end of the stack.

However, we have the same problem with the initial value of the stack
pointer, it can also be unaligned. So without this patch this trivial
kernel module

	#include &lt;linux/module.h&gt;

	static int init(void)
	{
		asm volatile("sub    $0x4,%rsp");
		dump_stack();
		asm volatile("add    $0x4,%rsp");

		return -EAGAIN;
	}

	module_init(init);
	MODULE_LICENSE("GPL");

crashes the kernel.

Fixes: e335bb51cc15 ("x86/unwind: Ensure stack pointer is aligned")
Signed-off-by: Vernon Lovejoy &lt;vlovejoy@redhat.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov &lt;oleg@redhat.com&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20230512104232.GA10227@redhat.com
Signed-off-by: Josh Poimboeuf &lt;jpoimboe@kernel.org&gt;
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>Merge tag 'mm-stable-2022-10-08' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/akpm/mm</title>
<updated>2022-10-11T00:53:04+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2022-10-11T00:53:04+00:00</published>
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Pull MM updates from Andrew Morton:

 - Yu Zhao's Multi-Gen LRU patches are here. They've been under test in
   linux-next for a couple of months without, to my knowledge, any
   negative reports (or any positive ones, come to that).

 - Also the Maple Tree from Liam Howlett. An overlapping range-based
   tree for vmas. It it apparently slightly more efficient in its own
   right, but is mainly targeted at enabling work to reduce mmap_lock
   contention.

   Liam has identified a number of other tree users in the kernel which
   could be beneficially onverted to mapletrees.

   Yu Zhao has identified a hard-to-hit but "easy to fix" lockdep splat
   at [1]. This has yet to be addressed due to Liam's unfortunately
   timed vacation. He is now back and we'll get this fixed up.

 - Dmitry Vyukov introduces KMSAN: the Kernel Memory Sanitizer. It uses
   clang-generated instrumentation to detect used-unintialized bugs down
   to the single bit level.

   KMSAN keeps finding bugs. New ones, as well as the legacy ones.

 - Yang Shi adds a userspace mechanism (madvise) to induce a collapse of
   memory into THPs.

 - Zach O'Keefe has expanded Yang Shi's madvise(MADV_COLLAPSE) to
   support file/shmem-backed pages.

 - userfaultfd updates from Axel Rasmussen

 - zsmalloc cleanups from Alexey Romanov

 - cleanups from Miaohe Lin: vmscan, hugetlb_cgroup, hugetlb and
   memory-failure

 - Huang Ying adds enhancements to NUMA balancing memory tiering mode's
   page promotion, with a new way of detecting hot pages.

 - memcg updates from Shakeel Butt: charging optimizations and reduced
   memory consumption.

 - memcg cleanups from Kairui Song.

 - memcg fixes and cleanups from Johannes Weiner.

 - Vishal Moola provides more folio conversions

 - Zhang Yi removed ll_rw_block() :(

 - migration enhancements from Peter Xu

 - migration error-path bugfixes from Huang Ying

 - Aneesh Kumar added ability for a device driver to alter the memory
   tiering promotion paths. For optimizations by PMEM drivers, DRM
   drivers, etc.

 - vma merging improvements from Jakub Matěn.

 - NUMA hinting cleanups from David Hildenbrand.

 - xu xin added aditional userspace visibility into KSM merging
   activity.

 - THP &amp; KSM code consolidation from Qi Zheng.

 - more folio work from Matthew Wilcox.

 - KASAN updates from Andrey Konovalov.

 - DAMON cleanups from Kaixu Xia.

 - DAMON work from SeongJae Park: fixes, cleanups.

 - hugetlb sysfs cleanups from Muchun Song.

 - Mike Kravetz fixes locking issues in hugetlbfs and in hugetlb core.

Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/CAOUHufZabH85CeUN-MEMgL8gJGzJEWUrkiM58JkTbBhh-jew0Q@mail.gmail.com [1]

* tag 'mm-stable-2022-10-08' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/akpm/mm: (555 commits)
  hugetlb: allocate vma lock for all sharable vmas
  hugetlb: take hugetlb vma_lock when clearing vma_lock-&gt;vma pointer
  hugetlb: fix vma lock handling during split vma and range unmapping
  mglru: mm/vmscan.c: fix imprecise comments
  mm/mglru: don't sync disk for each aging cycle
  mm: memcontrol: drop dead CONFIG_MEMCG_SWAP config symbol
  mm: memcontrol: use do_memsw_account() in a few more places
  mm: memcontrol: deprecate swapaccounting=0 mode
  mm: memcontrol: don't allocate cgroup swap arrays when memcg is disabled
  mm/secretmem: remove reduntant return value
  mm/hugetlb: add available_huge_pages() func
  mm: remove unused inline functions from include/linux/mm_inline.h
  selftests/vm: add selftest for MADV_COLLAPSE of uffd-minor memory
  selftests/vm: add file/shmem MADV_COLLAPSE selftest for cleared pmd
  selftests/vm: add thp collapse shmem testing
  selftests/vm: add thp collapse file and tmpfs testing
  selftests/vm: modularize thp collapse memory operations
  selftests/vm: dedup THP helpers
  mm/khugepaged: add tracepoint to hpage_collapse_scan_file()
  mm/madvise: add file and shmem support to MADV_COLLAPSE
  ...
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Pull MM updates from Andrew Morton:

 - Yu Zhao's Multi-Gen LRU patches are here. They've been under test in
   linux-next for a couple of months without, to my knowledge, any
   negative reports (or any positive ones, come to that).

 - Also the Maple Tree from Liam Howlett. An overlapping range-based
   tree for vmas. It it apparently slightly more efficient in its own
   right, but is mainly targeted at enabling work to reduce mmap_lock
   contention.

   Liam has identified a number of other tree users in the kernel which
   could be beneficially onverted to mapletrees.

   Yu Zhao has identified a hard-to-hit but "easy to fix" lockdep splat
   at [1]. This has yet to be addressed due to Liam's unfortunately
   timed vacation. He is now back and we'll get this fixed up.

 - Dmitry Vyukov introduces KMSAN: the Kernel Memory Sanitizer. It uses
   clang-generated instrumentation to detect used-unintialized bugs down
   to the single bit level.

   KMSAN keeps finding bugs. New ones, as well as the legacy ones.

 - Yang Shi adds a userspace mechanism (madvise) to induce a collapse of
   memory into THPs.

 - Zach O'Keefe has expanded Yang Shi's madvise(MADV_COLLAPSE) to
   support file/shmem-backed pages.

 - userfaultfd updates from Axel Rasmussen

 - zsmalloc cleanups from Alexey Romanov

 - cleanups from Miaohe Lin: vmscan, hugetlb_cgroup, hugetlb and
   memory-failure

 - Huang Ying adds enhancements to NUMA balancing memory tiering mode's
   page promotion, with a new way of detecting hot pages.

 - memcg updates from Shakeel Butt: charging optimizations and reduced
   memory consumption.

 - memcg cleanups from Kairui Song.

 - memcg fixes and cleanups from Johannes Weiner.

 - Vishal Moola provides more folio conversions

 - Zhang Yi removed ll_rw_block() :(

 - migration enhancements from Peter Xu

 - migration error-path bugfixes from Huang Ying

 - Aneesh Kumar added ability for a device driver to alter the memory
   tiering promotion paths. For optimizations by PMEM drivers, DRM
   drivers, etc.

 - vma merging improvements from Jakub Matěn.

 - NUMA hinting cleanups from David Hildenbrand.

 - xu xin added aditional userspace visibility into KSM merging
   activity.

 - THP &amp; KSM code consolidation from Qi Zheng.

 - more folio work from Matthew Wilcox.

 - KASAN updates from Andrey Konovalov.

 - DAMON cleanups from Kaixu Xia.

 - DAMON work from SeongJae Park: fixes, cleanups.

 - hugetlb sysfs cleanups from Muchun Song.

 - Mike Kravetz fixes locking issues in hugetlbfs and in hugetlb core.

Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/CAOUHufZabH85CeUN-MEMgL8gJGzJEWUrkiM58JkTbBhh-jew0Q@mail.gmail.com [1]

* tag 'mm-stable-2022-10-08' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/akpm/mm: (555 commits)
  hugetlb: allocate vma lock for all sharable vmas
  hugetlb: take hugetlb vma_lock when clearing vma_lock-&gt;vma pointer
  hugetlb: fix vma lock handling during split vma and range unmapping
  mglru: mm/vmscan.c: fix imprecise comments
  mm/mglru: don't sync disk for each aging cycle
  mm: memcontrol: drop dead CONFIG_MEMCG_SWAP config symbol
  mm: memcontrol: use do_memsw_account() in a few more places
  mm: memcontrol: deprecate swapaccounting=0 mode
  mm: memcontrol: don't allocate cgroup swap arrays when memcg is disabled
  mm/secretmem: remove reduntant return value
  mm/hugetlb: add available_huge_pages() func
  mm: remove unused inline functions from include/linux/mm_inline.h
  selftests/vm: add selftest for MADV_COLLAPSE of uffd-minor memory
  selftests/vm: add file/shmem MADV_COLLAPSE selftest for cleared pmd
  selftests/vm: add thp collapse shmem testing
  selftests/vm: add thp collapse file and tmpfs testing
  selftests/vm: modularize thp collapse memory operations
  selftests/vm: dedup THP helpers
  mm/khugepaged: add tracepoint to hpage_collapse_scan_file()
  mm/madvise: add file and shmem support to MADV_COLLAPSE
  ...
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<entry>
<title>x86: kmsan: don't instrument stack walking functions</title>
<updated>2022-10-03T21:03:25+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Alexander Potapenko</name>
<email>glider@google.com</email>
</author>
<published>2022-09-15T15:04:13+00:00</published>
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Upon function exit, KMSAN marks local variables as uninitialized.  Further
function calls may result in the compiler creating the stack frame where
these local variables resided.  This results in frame pointers being
marked as uninitialized data, which is normally correct, because they are
not stack-allocated.

However stack unwinding functions are supposed to read and dereference the
frame pointers, in which case KMSAN might be reporting uses of
uninitialized values.

To work around that, we mark update_stack_state(), unwind_next_frame() and
show_trace_log_lvl() with __no_kmsan_checks, preventing all KMSAN reports
inside those functions and making them return initialized values.

Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20220915150417.722975-40-glider@google.com
Signed-off-by: Alexander Potapenko &lt;glider@google.com&gt;
Cc: Alexander Viro &lt;viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk&gt;
Cc: Alexei Starovoitov &lt;ast@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Andrey Konovalov &lt;andreyknvl@gmail.com&gt;
Cc: Andrey Konovalov &lt;andreyknvl@google.com&gt;
Cc: Andy Lutomirski &lt;luto@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Arnd Bergmann &lt;arnd@arndb.de&gt;
Cc: Borislav Petkov &lt;bp@alien8.de&gt;
Cc: Christoph Hellwig &lt;hch@lst.de&gt;
Cc: Christoph Lameter &lt;cl@linux.com&gt;
Cc: David Rientjes &lt;rientjes@google.com&gt;
Cc: Dmitry Vyukov &lt;dvyukov@google.com&gt;
Cc: Eric Biggers &lt;ebiggers@google.com&gt;
Cc: Eric Biggers &lt;ebiggers@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Eric Dumazet &lt;edumazet@google.com&gt;
Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;
Cc: Herbert Xu &lt;herbert@gondor.apana.org.au&gt;
Cc: Ilya Leoshkevich &lt;iii@linux.ibm.com&gt;
Cc: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Jens Axboe &lt;axboe@kernel.dk&gt;
Cc: Joonsoo Kim &lt;iamjoonsoo.kim@lge.com&gt;
Cc: Kees Cook &lt;keescook@chromium.org&gt;
Cc: Marco Elver &lt;elver@google.com&gt;
Cc: Mark Rutland &lt;mark.rutland@arm.com&gt;
Cc: Matthew Wilcox &lt;willy@infradead.org&gt;
Cc: Michael S. Tsirkin &lt;mst@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Pekka Enberg &lt;penberg@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Peter Zijlstra &lt;peterz@infradead.org&gt;
Cc: Petr Mladek &lt;pmladek@suse.com&gt;
Cc: Stephen Rothwell &lt;sfr@canb.auug.org.au&gt;
Cc: Steven Rostedt &lt;rostedt@goodmis.org&gt;
Cc: Thomas Gleixner &lt;tglx@linutronix.de&gt;
Cc: Vasily Gorbik &lt;gor@linux.ibm.com&gt;
Cc: Vegard Nossum &lt;vegard.nossum@oracle.com&gt;
Cc: Vlastimil Babka &lt;vbabka@suse.cz&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
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Upon function exit, KMSAN marks local variables as uninitialized.  Further
function calls may result in the compiler creating the stack frame where
these local variables resided.  This results in frame pointers being
marked as uninitialized data, which is normally correct, because they are
not stack-allocated.

However stack unwinding functions are supposed to read and dereference the
frame pointers, in which case KMSAN might be reporting uses of
uninitialized values.

To work around that, we mark update_stack_state(), unwind_next_frame() and
show_trace_log_lvl() with __no_kmsan_checks, preventing all KMSAN reports
inside those functions and making them return initialized values.

Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20220915150417.722975-40-glider@google.com
Signed-off-by: Alexander Potapenko &lt;glider@google.com&gt;
Cc: Alexander Viro &lt;viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk&gt;
Cc: Alexei Starovoitov &lt;ast@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Andrey Konovalov &lt;andreyknvl@gmail.com&gt;
Cc: Andrey Konovalov &lt;andreyknvl@google.com&gt;
Cc: Andy Lutomirski &lt;luto@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Arnd Bergmann &lt;arnd@arndb.de&gt;
Cc: Borislav Petkov &lt;bp@alien8.de&gt;
Cc: Christoph Hellwig &lt;hch@lst.de&gt;
Cc: Christoph Lameter &lt;cl@linux.com&gt;
Cc: David Rientjes &lt;rientjes@google.com&gt;
Cc: Dmitry Vyukov &lt;dvyukov@google.com&gt;
Cc: Eric Biggers &lt;ebiggers@google.com&gt;
Cc: Eric Biggers &lt;ebiggers@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Eric Dumazet &lt;edumazet@google.com&gt;
Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;
Cc: Herbert Xu &lt;herbert@gondor.apana.org.au&gt;
Cc: Ilya Leoshkevich &lt;iii@linux.ibm.com&gt;
Cc: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Jens Axboe &lt;axboe@kernel.dk&gt;
Cc: Joonsoo Kim &lt;iamjoonsoo.kim@lge.com&gt;
Cc: Kees Cook &lt;keescook@chromium.org&gt;
Cc: Marco Elver &lt;elver@google.com&gt;
Cc: Mark Rutland &lt;mark.rutland@arm.com&gt;
Cc: Matthew Wilcox &lt;willy@infradead.org&gt;
Cc: Michael S. Tsirkin &lt;mst@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Pekka Enberg &lt;penberg@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Peter Zijlstra &lt;peterz@infradead.org&gt;
Cc: Petr Mladek &lt;pmladek@suse.com&gt;
Cc: Stephen Rothwell &lt;sfr@canb.auug.org.au&gt;
Cc: Steven Rostedt &lt;rostedt@goodmis.org&gt;
Cc: Thomas Gleixner &lt;tglx@linutronix.de&gt;
Cc: Vasily Gorbik &lt;gor@linux.ibm.com&gt;
Cc: Vegard Nossum &lt;vegard.nossum@oracle.com&gt;
Cc: Vlastimil Babka &lt;vbabka@suse.cz&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>x86/dumpstack: Don't mention RIP in "Code: "</title>
<updated>2022-09-20T14:11:54+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Jiri Slaby</name>
<email>jslaby@suse.cz</email>
</author>
<published>2022-09-06T07:11:23+00:00</published>
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Commit

  238c91115cd0 ("x86/dumpstack: Fix misleading instruction pointer error message")

changed the "Code:" line in bug reports when RIP is an invalid pointer.
In particular, the report currently says (for example):

  BUG: kernel NULL pointer dereference, address: 0000000000000000
  ...
  RIP: 0010:0x0
  Code: Unable to access opcode bytes at RIP 0xffffffffffffffd6.

That

  Unable to access opcode bytes at RIP 0xffffffffffffffd6.

is quite confusing as RIP value is 0, not -42. That -42 comes from
"regs-&gt;ip - PROLOGUE_SIZE", because Code is dumped with some prologue
(and epilogue).

So do not mention "RIP" on this line in this context.

Signed-off-by: Jiri Slaby &lt;jslaby@suse.cz&gt;
Signed-off-by: Borislav Petkov &lt;bp@suse.de&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/b772c39f-c5ae-8f17-fe6e-6a2bc4d1f83b@kernel.org
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Commit

  238c91115cd0 ("x86/dumpstack: Fix misleading instruction pointer error message")

changed the "Code:" line in bug reports when RIP is an invalid pointer.
In particular, the report currently says (for example):

  BUG: kernel NULL pointer dereference, address: 0000000000000000
  ...
  RIP: 0010:0x0
  Code: Unable to access opcode bytes at RIP 0xffffffffffffffd6.

That

  Unable to access opcode bytes at RIP 0xffffffffffffffd6.

is quite confusing as RIP value is 0, not -42. That -42 comes from
"regs-&gt;ip - PROLOGUE_SIZE", because Code is dumped with some prologue
(and epilogue).

So do not mention "RIP" on this line in this context.

Signed-off-by: Jiri Slaby &lt;jslaby@suse.cz&gt;
Signed-off-by: Borislav Petkov &lt;bp@suse.de&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/b772c39f-c5ae-8f17-fe6e-6a2bc4d1f83b@kernel.org
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>x86: remove __range_not_ok()</title>
<updated>2022-02-25T08:36:05+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Arnd Bergmann</name>
<email>arnd@arndb.de</email>
</author>
<published>2022-02-15T08:15:57+00:00</published>
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The __range_not_ok() helper is an x86 (and sparc64) specific interface
that does roughly the same thing as __access_ok(), but with different
calling conventions.

Change this to use the normal interface in order for consistency as we
clean up all access_ok() implementations.

This changes the limit from TASK_SIZE to TASK_SIZE_MAX, which Al points
out is the right thing do do here anyway.

The callers have to use __access_ok() instead of the normal access_ok()
though, because on x86 that contains a WARN_ON_IN_IRQ() check that cannot
be used inside of NMI context while tracing.

The check in copy_code() is not needed any more, because this one is
already done by copy_from_user_nmi().

Suggested-by: Al Viro &lt;viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk&gt;
Suggested-by: Christoph Hellwig &lt;hch@infradead.org&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/YgsUKcXGR7r4nINj@zeniv-ca.linux.org.uk/
Signed-off-by: Arnd Bergmann &lt;arnd@arndb.de&gt;
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The __range_not_ok() helper is an x86 (and sparc64) specific interface
that does roughly the same thing as __access_ok(), but with different
calling conventions.

Change this to use the normal interface in order for consistency as we
clean up all access_ok() implementations.

This changes the limit from TASK_SIZE to TASK_SIZE_MAX, which Al points
out is the right thing do do here anyway.

The callers have to use __access_ok() instead of the normal access_ok()
though, because on x86 that contains a WARN_ON_IN_IRQ() check that cannot
be used inside of NMI context while tracing.

The check in copy_code() is not needed any more, because this one is
already done by copy_from_user_nmi().

Suggested-by: Al Viro &lt;viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk&gt;
Suggested-by: Christoph Hellwig &lt;hch@infradead.org&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/YgsUKcXGR7r4nINj@zeniv-ca.linux.org.uk/
Signed-off-by: Arnd Bergmann &lt;arnd@arndb.de&gt;
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</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>exit: Add and use make_task_dead.</title>
<updated>2021-12-13T18:04:45+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Eric W. Biederman</name>
<email>ebiederm@xmission.com</email>
</author>
<published>2021-06-28T19:52:01+00:00</published>
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There are two big uses of do_exit.  The first is it's design use to be
the guts of the exit(2) system call.  The second use is to terminate
a task after something catastrophic has happened like a NULL pointer
in kernel code.

Add a function make_task_dead that is initialy exactly the same as
do_exit to cover the cases where do_exit is called to handle
catastrophic failure.  In time this can probably be reduced to just a
light wrapper around do_task_dead. For now keep it exactly the same so
that there will be no behavioral differences introducing this new
concept.

Replace all of the uses of do_exit that use it for catastraphic
task cleanup with make_task_dead to make it clear what the code
is doing.

As part of this rename rewind_stack_do_exit
rewind_stack_and_make_dead.

Signed-off-by: "Eric W. Biederman" &lt;ebiederm@xmission.com&gt;
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There are two big uses of do_exit.  The first is it's design use to be
the guts of the exit(2) system call.  The second use is to terminate
a task after something catastrophic has happened like a NULL pointer
in kernel code.

Add a function make_task_dead that is initialy exactly the same as
do_exit to cover the cases where do_exit is called to handle
catastrophic failure.  In time this can probably be reduced to just a
light wrapper around do_task_dead. For now keep it exactly the same so
that there will be no behavioral differences introducing this new
concept.

Replace all of the uses of do_exit that use it for catastraphic
task cleanup with make_task_dead to make it clear what the code
is doing.

As part of this rename rewind_stack_do_exit
rewind_stack_and_make_dead.

Signed-off-by: "Eric W. Biederman" &lt;ebiederm@xmission.com&gt;
</pre>
</div>
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>x86/dumpstack: use %pSb/%pBb for backtrace printing</title>
<updated>2021-07-08T18:48:22+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Stephen Boyd</name>
<email>swboyd@chromium.org</email>
</author>
<published>2021-07-08T01:09:27+00:00</published>
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Let's use the new printk formats to print the stacktrace entries when
printing a backtrace to the kernel logs.  This will include any module's
build ID[1] in it so that offline/crash debugging can easily locate the
debuginfo for a module via something like debuginfod[2].

Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20210511003845.2429846-8-swboyd@chromium.org
Link: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Releases/FeatureBuildId [1]
Link: https://sourceware.org/elfutils/Debuginfod.html [2]
Signed-off-by: Stephen Boyd &lt;swboyd@chromium.org&gt;
Cc: Thomas Gleixner &lt;tglx@linutronix.de&gt;
Cc: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Borislav Petkov &lt;bp@alien8.de&gt;
Cc: Jiri Olsa &lt;jolsa@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Alexei Starovoitov &lt;ast@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Jessica Yu &lt;jeyu@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Evan Green &lt;evgreen@chromium.org&gt;
Cc: Hsin-Yi Wang &lt;hsinyi@chromium.org&gt;
Cc: Petr Mladek &lt;pmladek@suse.com&gt;
Cc: Steven Rostedt &lt;rostedt@goodmis.org&gt;
Cc: Andy Shevchenko &lt;andriy.shevchenko@linux.intel.com&gt;
Cc: Matthew Wilcox &lt;willy@infradead.org&gt;
Cc: Baoquan He &lt;bhe@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Catalin Marinas &lt;catalin.marinas@arm.com&gt;
Cc: Dave Young &lt;dyoung@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Konstantin Khlebnikov &lt;khlebnikov@yandex-team.ru&gt;
Cc: Rasmus Villemoes &lt;linux@rasmusvillemoes.dk&gt;
Cc: Sasha Levin &lt;sashal@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Sergey Senozhatsky &lt;sergey.senozhatsky@gmail.com&gt;
Cc: Vivek Goyal &lt;vgoyal@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Will Deacon &lt;will@kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
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Let's use the new printk formats to print the stacktrace entries when
printing a backtrace to the kernel logs.  This will include any module's
build ID[1] in it so that offline/crash debugging can easily locate the
debuginfo for a module via something like debuginfod[2].

Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20210511003845.2429846-8-swboyd@chromium.org
Link: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Releases/FeatureBuildId [1]
Link: https://sourceware.org/elfutils/Debuginfod.html [2]
Signed-off-by: Stephen Boyd &lt;swboyd@chromium.org&gt;
Cc: Thomas Gleixner &lt;tglx@linutronix.de&gt;
Cc: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Borislav Petkov &lt;bp@alien8.de&gt;
Cc: Jiri Olsa &lt;jolsa@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Alexei Starovoitov &lt;ast@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Jessica Yu &lt;jeyu@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Evan Green &lt;evgreen@chromium.org&gt;
Cc: Hsin-Yi Wang &lt;hsinyi@chromium.org&gt;
Cc: Petr Mladek &lt;pmladek@suse.com&gt;
Cc: Steven Rostedt &lt;rostedt@goodmis.org&gt;
Cc: Andy Shevchenko &lt;andriy.shevchenko@linux.intel.com&gt;
Cc: Matthew Wilcox &lt;willy@infradead.org&gt;
Cc: Baoquan He &lt;bhe@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Catalin Marinas &lt;catalin.marinas@arm.com&gt;
Cc: Dave Young &lt;dyoung@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Konstantin Khlebnikov &lt;khlebnikov@yandex-team.ru&gt;
Cc: Rasmus Villemoes &lt;linux@rasmusvillemoes.dk&gt;
Cc: Sasha Levin &lt;sashal@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Sergey Senozhatsky &lt;sergey.senozhatsky@gmail.com&gt;
Cc: Vivek Goyal &lt;vgoyal@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Will Deacon &lt;will@kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
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</div>
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>Merge tag 'x86_cleanups_for_v5.11' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip</title>
<updated>2020-12-14T21:45:26+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2020-12-14T21:45:26+00:00</published>
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Pull x86 cleanups from Borislav Petkov:
 "Another branch with a nicely negative diffstat, just the way I
  like 'em:

   - Remove all uses of TIF_IA32 and TIF_X32 and reclaim the two bits in
     the end (Gabriel Krisman Bertazi)

   - All kinds of minor cleanups all over the tree"

* tag 'x86_cleanups_for_v5.11' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip: (24 commits)
  x86/ia32_signal: Propagate __user annotation properly
  x86/alternative: Update text_poke_bp() kernel-doc comment
  x86/PCI: Make a kernel-doc comment a normal one
  x86/asm: Drop unused RDPID macro
  x86/boot/compressed/64: Use TEST %reg,%reg instead of CMP $0,%reg
  x86/head64: Remove duplicate include
  x86/mm: Declare 'start' variable where it is used
  x86/head/64: Remove unused GET_CR2_INTO() macro
  x86/boot: Remove unused finalize_identity_maps()
  x86/uaccess: Document copy_from_user_nmi()
  x86/dumpstack: Make show_trace_log_lvl() static
  x86/mtrr: Fix a kernel-doc markup
  x86/setup: Remove unused MCA variables
  x86, libnvdimm/test: Remove COPY_MC_TEST
  x86: Reclaim TIF_IA32 and TIF_X32
  x86/mm: Convert mmu context ia32_compat into a proper flags field
  x86/elf: Use e_machine to check for x32/ia32 in setup_additional_pages()
  elf: Expose ELF header on arch_setup_additional_pages()
  x86/elf: Use e_machine to select start_thread for x32
  elf: Expose ELF header in compat_start_thread()
  ...
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Pull x86 cleanups from Borislav Petkov:
 "Another branch with a nicely negative diffstat, just the way I
  like 'em:

   - Remove all uses of TIF_IA32 and TIF_X32 and reclaim the two bits in
     the end (Gabriel Krisman Bertazi)

   - All kinds of minor cleanups all over the tree"

* tag 'x86_cleanups_for_v5.11' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip: (24 commits)
  x86/ia32_signal: Propagate __user annotation properly
  x86/alternative: Update text_poke_bp() kernel-doc comment
  x86/PCI: Make a kernel-doc comment a normal one
  x86/asm: Drop unused RDPID macro
  x86/boot/compressed/64: Use TEST %reg,%reg instead of CMP $0,%reg
  x86/head64: Remove duplicate include
  x86/mm: Declare 'start' variable where it is used
  x86/head/64: Remove unused GET_CR2_INTO() macro
  x86/boot: Remove unused finalize_identity_maps()
  x86/uaccess: Document copy_from_user_nmi()
  x86/dumpstack: Make show_trace_log_lvl() static
  x86/mtrr: Fix a kernel-doc markup
  x86/setup: Remove unused MCA variables
  x86, libnvdimm/test: Remove COPY_MC_TEST
  x86: Reclaim TIF_IA32 and TIF_X32
  x86/mm: Convert mmu context ia32_compat into a proper flags field
  x86/elf: Use e_machine to check for x32/ia32 in setup_additional_pages()
  elf: Expose ELF header on arch_setup_additional_pages()
  x86/elf: Use e_machine to select start_thread for x32
  elf: Expose ELF header in compat_start_thread()
  ...
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