Thanks to all the recent x86 entry code refactoring, most tasks' kernel
stacks start at the same offset right below their saved pt_regs,
regardless of which syscall was used to enter the kernel. That creates
a nice convention which makes it straightforward to identify the end of
the stack, which can be useful for the unwinder to verify the stack is
sane.
Calling schedule_tail() directly breaks that convention because its an
asmlinkage function so its argument has to be pushed on the stack. Add
a wrapper which creates a proper "end of stack" frame header before the
call.
Signed-off-by: Josh Poimboeuf <jpoimboe@redhat.com>
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: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Nilay Vaish <nilayvaish@gmail.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/ecafcd882676bf48ceaf50483782552bb98476e5.1474480779.git.jpoimboe@redhat.com
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
#include <asm/asm.h>
#include <asm/smap.h>
#include <asm/export.h>
+#include <asm/frame.h>
.section .entry.text, "ax"
jmp __switch_to
END(__switch_to_asm)
+/*
+ * The unwinder expects the last frame on the stack to always be at the same
+ * offset from the end of the page, which allows it to validate the stack.
+ * Calling schedule_tail() directly would break that convention because its an
+ * asmlinkage function so its argument has to be pushed on the stack. This
+ * wrapper creates a proper "end of stack" frame header before the call.
+ */
+ENTRY(schedule_tail_wrapper)
+ FRAME_BEGIN
+
+ pushl %eax
+ call schedule_tail
+ popl %eax
+
+ FRAME_END
+ ret
+ENDPROC(schedule_tail_wrapper)
/*
* A newly forked process directly context switches into this address.
*
* edi: kernel thread arg
*/
ENTRY(ret_from_fork)
- pushl %eax
- call schedule_tail
- popl %eax
+ call schedule_tail_wrapper
testl %ebx, %ebx
jnz 1f /* kernel threads are uncommon */