From: Josh Poimboeuf <jpoimboe@redhat.com>
Date: Fri, 16 Sep 2016 13:05:20 +0000 (-0500)
Subject: x86/dumpstack: Remove NULL task pointer convention
X-Git-Tag: v4.9-rc1~160^2~12
X-Git-Url: https://git.karo-electronics.de/?a=commitdiff_plain;h=81539169f283329f;p=karo-tx-linux.git

x86/dumpstack: Remove NULL task pointer convention

show_stack_log_lvl() and friends allow a NULL pointer for the
task_struct to indicate the current task.  This creates confusion and
can cause sneaky bugs.

Instead require the caller to pass 'current' directly.

This only changes the internal workings of the dumpstack code.  The
dump_trace() and show_stack() interfaces still allow a NULL task
pointer.  Those interfaces should also probably be fixed as well.

Signed-off-by: Josh Poimboeuf <jpoimboe@redhat.com>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
---

diff --git a/arch/x86/include/asm/stacktrace.h b/arch/x86/include/asm/stacktrace.h
index 780a83efcfd3..ed2be1b5ada8 100644
--- a/arch/x86/include/asm/stacktrace.h
+++ b/arch/x86/include/asm/stacktrace.h
@@ -94,7 +94,7 @@ get_frame_pointer(struct task_struct *task, struct pt_regs *regs)
 	if (regs)
 		return (unsigned long *)regs->bp;
 
-	if (!task || task == current)
+	if (task == current)
 		return __builtin_frame_address(0);
 
 	return (unsigned long *)((struct inactive_task_frame *)task->thread.sp)->bp;
@@ -113,7 +113,7 @@ get_stack_pointer(struct task_struct *task, struct pt_regs *regs)
 	if (regs)
 		return (unsigned long *)kernel_stack_pointer(regs);
 
-	if (!task || task == current)
+	if (task == current)
 		return __builtin_frame_address(0);
 
 	return (unsigned long *)task->thread.sp;
diff --git a/arch/x86/kernel/dumpstack.c b/arch/x86/kernel/dumpstack.c
index aa208e565b03..e0648f755158 100644
--- a/arch/x86/kernel/dumpstack.c
+++ b/arch/x86/kernel/dumpstack.c
@@ -175,11 +175,13 @@ void show_stack(struct task_struct *task, unsigned long *sp)
 {
 	unsigned long bp = 0;
 
+	task = task ? : current;
+
 	/*
 	 * Stack frames below this one aren't interesting.  Don't show them
 	 * if we're printing for %current.
 	 */
-	if (!sp && (!task || task == current)) {
+	if (!sp && task == current) {
 		sp = get_stack_pointer(current, NULL);
 		bp = (unsigned long)get_frame_pointer(current, NULL);
 	}
diff --git a/arch/x86/kernel/dumpstack_32.c b/arch/x86/kernel/dumpstack_32.c
index 122f37d7bb7e..4ff000811e03 100644
--- a/arch/x86/kernel/dumpstack_32.c
+++ b/arch/x86/kernel/dumpstack_32.c
@@ -205,7 +205,7 @@ void show_regs(struct pt_regs *regs)
 		u8 *ip;
 
 		pr_emerg("Stack:\n");
-		show_stack_log_lvl(NULL, regs, NULL, 0, KERN_EMERG);
+		show_stack_log_lvl(current, regs, NULL, 0, KERN_EMERG);
 
 		pr_emerg("Code:");
 
diff --git a/arch/x86/kernel/dumpstack_64.c b/arch/x86/kernel/dumpstack_64.c
index 16c0d5f89b5e..008a29837cab 100644
--- a/arch/x86/kernel/dumpstack_64.c
+++ b/arch/x86/kernel/dumpstack_64.c
@@ -278,7 +278,7 @@ void show_regs(struct pt_regs *regs)
 		u8 *ip;
 
 		printk(KERN_DEFAULT "Stack:\n");
-		show_stack_log_lvl(NULL, regs, NULL, 0, KERN_DEFAULT);
+		show_stack_log_lvl(current, regs, NULL, 0, KERN_DEFAULT);
 
 		printk(KERN_DEFAULT "Code: ");