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Petr Mladek reported the following warning when loading the livepatch sample module: WARNING: CPU: 1 PID: 3699 at arch/x86/kernel/stacktrace.c:132 save_stack_trace_tsk_reliable+0x133/0x1a0 ... Call Trace: __schedule+0x273/0x820 schedule+0x36/0x80 kthreadd+0x305/0x310 ? kthread_create_on_cpu+0x80/0x80 ? icmp_echo.part.32+0x50/0x50 ret_from_fork+0x2c/0x40 That warning means the end of the stack is no longer recognized as such for newly forked tasks. The problem was introduced with the following commit:ff3f7e2475("x86/entry: Fix the end of the stack for newly forked tasks") ... which was completely misguided. It only partially fixed the reported issue, and it introduced another bug in the process. None of the other entry code saves the frame pointer before calling into C code, so it doesn't make sense for ret_from_fork to do so either. Contrary to what I originally thought, the original issue wasn't related to newly forked tasks. It was actually related to ftrace. When entry code calls into a function which then calls into an ftrace handler, the stack frame looks different than normal. The original issue will be fixed in the unwinder, in a subsequent patch. Reported-by: Petr Mladek <pmladek@suse.com> Signed-off-by: Josh Poimboeuf <jpoimboe@redhat.com> Acked-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Cc: Dave Jones <davej@codemonkey.org.uk> Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org> Cc: live-patching@vger.kernel.org Fixes:ff3f7e2475("x86/entry: Fix the end of the stack for newly forked tasks") Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/f350760f7e82f0750c8d1dd093456eb212751caa.1495553739.git.jpoimboe@redhat.com Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Linux kernel ============ This file was moved to Documentation/admin-guide/README.rst Please notice that there are several guides for kernel developers and users. These guides can be rendered in a number of formats, like HTML and PDF. In order to build the documentation, use ``make htmldocs`` or ``make pdfdocs``. There are various text files in the Documentation/ subdirectory, several of them using the Restructured Text markup notation. See Documentation/00-INDEX for a list of what is contained in each file. Please read the Documentation/process/changes.rst file, as it contains the requirements for building and running the kernel, and information about the problems which may result by upgrading your kernel.