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tracing, kasan: Silence Kasan warning in check_stack of stack_tracer
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When enabling stack trace via "echo 1 > /proc/sys/kernel/stack_tracer_enabled",
the below KASAN warning is triggered:

BUG: KASAN: stack-out-of-bounds in check_stack+0x344/0x848 at addr ffffffc0689ebab8
Read of size 8 by task ksoftirqd/4/29
page:ffffffbdc3a27ac0 count:0 mapcount:0 mapping:          (null) index:0x0
flags: 0x0()
page dumped because: kasan: bad access detected
CPU: 4 PID: 29 Comm: ksoftirqd/4 Not tainted 4.5.0-rc1 torvalds#129
Hardware name: Freescale Layerscape 2085a RDB Board (DT)
Call trace:
[<ffffffc000091300>] dump_backtrace+0x0/0x3a0
[<ffffffc0000916c4>] show_stack+0x24/0x30
[<ffffffc0009bbd78>] dump_stack+0xd8/0x168
[<ffffffc000420bb0>] kasan_report_error+0x6a0/0x920
[<ffffffc000421688>] kasan_report+0x70/0xb8
[<ffffffc00041f7f0>] __asan_load8+0x60/0x78
[<ffffffc0002e05c4>] check_stack+0x344/0x848
[<ffffffc0002e0c8c>] stack_trace_call+0x1c4/0x370
[<ffffffc0002af558>] ftrace_ops_no_ops+0x2c0/0x590
[<ffffffc00009f25c>] ftrace_graph_call+0x0/0x14
[<ffffffc0000881bc>] fpsimd_thread_switch+0x24/0x1e8
[<ffffffc000089864>] __switch_to+0x34/0x218
[<ffffffc0011e089c>] __schedule+0x3ac/0x15b8
[<ffffffc0011e1f6c>] schedule+0x5c/0x178
[<ffffffc0001632a8>] smpboot_thread_fn+0x350/0x960
[<ffffffc00015b518>] kthread+0x1d8/0x2b0
[<ffffffc0000874d0>] ret_from_fork+0x10/0x40
Memory state around the buggy address:
 ffffffc0689eb980: 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 f1 f1 f1 f1 00 f4 f4 f4
 ffffffc0689eba00: f3 f3 f3 f3 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00
>ffffffc0689eba80: 00 00 f1 f1 f1 f1 00 f4 f4 f4 f3 f3 f3 f3 00 00
                                        ^
 ffffffc0689ebb00: 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00
 ffffffc0689ebb80: 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00

The stacker tracer traverses the whole kernel stack when saving the max stack
trace. It may touch the stack red zones to cause the warning. So, just disable
the instrumentation to silence the warning.

Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/[email protected]

Signed-off-by: Yang Shi <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <[email protected]>
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Yang Shi authored and rostedt committed Feb 19, 2016
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6 changes: 5 additions & 1 deletion kernel/trace/trace_stack.c
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Expand Up @@ -156,7 +156,11 @@ check_stack(unsigned long ip, unsigned long *stack)
for (; p < top && i < stack_trace_max.nr_entries; p++) {
if (stack_dump_trace[i] == ULONG_MAX)
break;
if (*p == stack_dump_trace[i]) {
/*
* The READ_ONCE_NOCHECK is used to let KASAN know that
* this is not a stack-out-of-bounds error.
*/
if ((READ_ONCE_NOCHECK(*p)) == stack_dump_trace[i]) {
stack_dump_trace[x] = stack_dump_trace[i++];
this_size = stack_trace_index[x++] =
(top - p) * sizeof(unsigned long);
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