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From: Will Deacon <will@kernel.org>
To: Dave Martin <Dave.Martin@arm.com>
Cc: Tamas Zsoldos <tamas.zsoldos@arm.com>,
	Mark Brown <broonie@kernel.org>,
	kernel-team@android.com, linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org,
	Daniel Kiss <daniel.kiss@arm.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 2/2] arm64: vdso: Fix CFI directives in sigreturn trampoline
Date: Wed, 20 May 2020 10:50:28 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20200520095027.GE24293@willie-the-truck> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20200520094212.GK5031@arm.com>

On Wed, May 20, 2020 at 10:42:13AM +0100, Dave Martin wrote:
> On Tue, May 19, 2020 at 05:28:21PM +0100, Will Deacon wrote:
> > @@ -14,7 +18,34 @@
> >  
> >  	.text
> >  
> > -	nop
> > +/* Ensure that the mysterious NOP can be associated with a function. */
> > +	.cfi_startproc
> > +
> > +/*
> > + * .cfi_signal_frame causes the corresponding Frame Description Entry in the
> > + * .eh_frame section to be annotated as a signal frame. This allows DWARF
> > + * unwinders (e.g. libstdc++) to implement _Unwind_GetIPInfo(), which permits
> > + * unwinding out of the signal trampoline without the need for the mysterious
> > + * NOP.
> > + */
> > +	.cfi_signal_frame
> > +
> > +/*
> > + * Tell the unwinder where to locate the frame record linking back to the
> > + * interrupted context.
> > + */
> > +	.cfi_def_cfa    x29, 0
> > +	.cfi_offset     x29, 0 * 8
> > +	.cfi_offset     x29, 1 * 8
> 
> We should also give rationale for why we don't describe how to recover
> other regs here.  At a signal, every reg is potentially live with data
> essential to the backtrace, so custom unwind entries further up the
> stack may unwind badly after trying to unwind out of the signal handler.

Hmm, I'm not sure I get what you're asking for. We can't recover the other
registers even if we tried, can we? I think the only way to get a reliable
backtrace here is not to clobber the framepointer.

Will

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  reply	other threads:[~2020-05-20  9:50 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2020-05-19 16:28 [PATCH v2 0/2] arm64 sigreturn unwinding fixes Will Deacon
2020-05-19 16:28 ` [PATCH v2 1/2] arm64: vdso: Don't prefix sigreturn trampoline with a BTI C instruction Will Deacon
2020-05-19 16:33   ` Mark Brown
2020-05-20  9:33   ` Dave Martin
2020-05-20  9:53     ` Will Deacon
2020-05-19 16:28 ` [PATCH v2 2/2] arm64: vdso: Fix CFI directives in sigreturn trampoline Will Deacon
2020-05-20  9:42   ` Dave Martin
2020-05-20  9:50     ` Will Deacon [this message]
2020-05-20 10:27       ` Dave Martin
2020-05-20 10:36         ` Will Deacon
2020-05-20 11:03           ` Dave Martin
2020-05-20 10:48   ` Will Deacon
2020-05-20 11:06     ` Dave Martin

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