[PATCH 3/4] powerpc/livepatch: small cleanups in save_stack_trace_tsk_reliable()

From: Joe Lawrence
Date: Tue Jan 22 2019 - 10:57:44 EST


Mostly cosmetic changes:

- Group common stack pointer code at the top
- Simplify the first frame logic
- Code stackframe iteration into for...loop construct
- Check for trace->nr_entries overflow before adding any into the array

Suggested-by: Nicolai Stange <nstange@xxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Joe Lawrence <joe.lawrence@xxxxxxxxxx>
---
arch/powerpc/kernel/stacktrace.c | 40 +++++++++++---------------------
1 file changed, 14 insertions(+), 26 deletions(-)

diff --git a/arch/powerpc/kernel/stacktrace.c b/arch/powerpc/kernel/stacktrace.c
index 06688f4d557b..28c3c25755d7 100644
--- a/arch/powerpc/kernel/stacktrace.c
+++ b/arch/powerpc/kernel/stacktrace.c
@@ -95,20 +95,11 @@ save_stack_trace_tsk_reliable(struct task_struct *tsk,
struct stack_trace *trace)
{
unsigned long sp;
+ unsigned long newsp;
unsigned long stack_page = (unsigned long)task_stack_page(tsk);
unsigned long stack_end;
int graph_idx = 0;
-
- /*
- * The last frame (unwinding first) may not yet have saved
- * its LR onto the stack.
- */
- int firstframe = 1;
-
- if (tsk == current)
- sp = current_stack_pointer();
- else
- sp = tsk->thread.ksp;
+ bool firstframe;

stack_end = stack_page + THREAD_SIZE;
if (!is_idle_task(tsk)) {
@@ -135,14 +126,20 @@ save_stack_trace_tsk_reliable(struct task_struct *tsk,
stack_end -= STACK_FRAME_OVERHEAD;
}

+ if (tsk == current)
+ sp = current_stack_pointer();
+ else
+ sp = tsk->thread.ksp;
+
if (sp < stack_page + sizeof(struct thread_struct) ||
sp > stack_end - STACK_FRAME_MIN_SIZE) {
return 1;
}

- for (;;) {
+ for (firstframe = true; sp != stack_end;
+ firstframe = false, sp = newsp) {
unsigned long *stack = (unsigned long *) sp;
- unsigned long newsp, ip;
+ unsigned long ip;

/* sanity check: ABI requires SP to be aligned 16 bytes. */
if (sp & 0xF)
@@ -163,10 +160,8 @@ save_stack_trace_tsk_reliable(struct task_struct *tsk,
* rest of the frame may be uninitialized, continue to
* the next.
*/
- if (firstframe) {
- firstframe = 0;
- goto next;
- }
+ if (firstframe)
+ continue;

/* Mark stacktraces with exception frames as unreliable. */
if (sp <= stack_end - STACK_INT_FRAME_SIZE &&
@@ -193,19 +188,12 @@ save_stack_trace_tsk_reliable(struct task_struct *tsk,
return 1;
#endif

+ if (trace->nr_entries >= trace->max_entries)
+ return -E2BIG;
if (!trace->skip)
trace->entries[trace->nr_entries++] = ip;
else
trace->skip--;
-
-next:
- if (newsp == stack_end)
- break;
-
- if (trace->nr_entries >= trace->max_entries)
- return -E2BIG;
-
- sp = newsp;
}
return 0;
}
--
2.20.1