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-rw-r--r--arch/x86/entry/entry_32.S30
-rw-r--r--arch/x86/entry/entry_64.S14
2 files changed, 25 insertions, 19 deletions
diff --git a/arch/x86/entry/entry_32.S b/arch/x86/entry/entry_32.S
index 50bc26949e9e..48ef7bb32c42 100644
--- a/arch/x86/entry/entry_32.S
+++ b/arch/x86/entry/entry_32.S
@@ -252,6 +252,23 @@ ENTRY(__switch_to_asm)
END(__switch_to_asm)
/*
+ * The unwinder expects the last frame on the stack to always be at the same
+ * offset from the end of the page, which allows it to validate the stack.
+ * Calling schedule_tail() directly would break that convention because its an
+ * asmlinkage function so its argument has to be pushed on the stack. This
+ * wrapper creates a proper "end of stack" frame header before the call.
+ */
+ENTRY(schedule_tail_wrapper)
+ FRAME_BEGIN
+
+ pushl %eax
+ call schedule_tail
+ popl %eax
+
+ FRAME_END
+ ret
+ENDPROC(schedule_tail_wrapper)
+/*
* A newly forked process directly context switches into this address.
*
* eax: prev task we switched from
@@ -259,24 +276,15 @@ END(__switch_to_asm)
* edi: kernel thread arg
*/
ENTRY(ret_from_fork)
- FRAME_BEGIN /* help unwinder find end of stack */
-
- /*
- * schedule_tail() is asmlinkage so we have to put its 'prev' argument
- * on the stack.
- */
- pushl %eax
- call schedule_tail
- popl %eax
+ call schedule_tail_wrapper
testl %ebx, %ebx
jnz 1f /* kernel threads are uncommon */
2:
/* When we fork, we trace the syscall return in the child, too. */
- leal FRAME_OFFSET(%esp), %eax
+ movl %esp, %eax
call syscall_return_slowpath
- FRAME_END
jmp restore_all
/* kernel thread */
diff --git a/arch/x86/entry/entry_64.S b/arch/x86/entry/entry_64.S
index 607d72c4a485..a9a8027a6c0e 100644
--- a/arch/x86/entry/entry_64.S
+++ b/arch/x86/entry/entry_64.S
@@ -36,7 +36,6 @@
#include <asm/smap.h>
#include <asm/pgtable_types.h>
#include <asm/export.h>
-#include <asm/frame.h>
#include <linux/err.h>
.code64
@@ -266,7 +265,8 @@ return_from_SYSCALL_64:
* If width of "canonical tail" ever becomes variable, this will need
* to be updated to remain correct on both old and new CPUs.
*
- * Change top 16 bits to be the sign-extension of 47th bit
+ * Change top bits to match most significant bit (47th or 56th bit
+ * depending on paging mode) in the address.
*/
shl $(64 - (__VIRTUAL_MASK_SHIFT+1)), %rcx
sar $(64 - (__VIRTUAL_MASK_SHIFT+1)), %rcx
@@ -406,19 +406,17 @@ END(__switch_to_asm)
* r12: kernel thread arg
*/
ENTRY(ret_from_fork)
- FRAME_BEGIN /* help unwinder find end of stack */
movq %rax, %rdi
- call schedule_tail /* rdi: 'prev' task parameter */
+ call schedule_tail /* rdi: 'prev' task parameter */
- testq %rbx, %rbx /* from kernel_thread? */
- jnz 1f /* kernel threads are uncommon */
+ testq %rbx, %rbx /* from kernel_thread? */
+ jnz 1f /* kernel threads are uncommon */
2:
- leaq FRAME_OFFSET(%rsp),%rdi /* pt_regs pointer */
+ movq %rsp, %rdi
call syscall_return_slowpath /* returns with IRQs disabled */
TRACE_IRQS_ON /* user mode is traced as IRQS on */
SWAPGS
- FRAME_END
jmp restore_regs_and_iret
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