linux/Documentation/livepatch
Josh Poimboeuf fb799447ae x86,objtool: Split UNWIND_HINT_EMPTY in two
Mark reported that the ORC unwinder incorrectly marks an unwind as
reliable when the unwind terminates prematurely in the dark corners of
return_to_handler() due to lack of information about the next frame.

The problem is UNWIND_HINT_EMPTY is used in two different situations:

  1) The end of the kernel stack unwind before hitting user entry, boot
     code, or fork entry

  2) A blind spot in ORC coverage where the unwinder has to bail due to
     lack of information about the next frame

The ORC unwinder has no way to tell the difference between the two.
When it encounters an undefined stack state with 'end=1', it blindly
marks the stack reliable, which can break the livepatch consistency
model.

Fix it by splitting UNWIND_HINT_EMPTY into UNWIND_HINT_UNDEFINED and
UNWIND_HINT_END_OF_STACK.

Reported-by: Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@arm.com>
Signed-off-by: Josh Poimboeuf <jpoimboe@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org>
Acked-by: Steven Rostedt (Google) <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/fd6212c8b450d3564b855e1cb48404d6277b4d9f.1677683419.git.jpoimboe@kernel.org
2023-03-23 23:18:58 +01:00
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api.rst Documentation: livepatch: Add livepatch API page 2021-12-23 11:35:53 +01:00
callbacks.rst docs/livepatch: Unify style of livepatch documentation in the ReST format 2019-05-07 16:06:28 -06:00
cumulative-patches.rst docs: livepatch: convert docs to ReST and rename to *.rst 2019-05-07 16:05:49 -06:00
index.rst Documentation: livepatch: Add livepatch API page 2021-12-23 11:35:53 +01:00
livepatch.rst Documentation: livepatch: Convert to automatically generated contents 2021-01-26 11:50:00 +01:00
module-elf-format.rst Documentation: livepatch: module-elf-format: Remove local klp_modinfo definition 2023-02-06 08:45:55 -08:00
reliable-stacktrace.rst x86,objtool: Split UNWIND_HINT_EMPTY in two 2023-03-23 23:18:58 +01:00
shadow-vars.rst Documentation: livepatch: Add livepatch API page 2021-12-23 11:35:53 +01:00
system-state.rst Documentation: livepatch: Add livepatch API page 2021-12-23 11:35:53 +01:00