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Commit 9d8ad5d6 authored by Vegard Nossum's avatar Vegard Nossum Committed by Ingo Molnar
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x86: don't destroy %rbp on kernel-mode faults



From the code:

    "B stepping K8s sometimes report an truncated RIP for IRET exceptions
    returning to compat mode. Check for these here too."

The code then proceeds to truncate the upper 32 bits of %rbp. This means
that when do_page_fault() is finally called, its prologue,

    do_page_fault:
        push %rbp
        movl %rsp, %rbp

will put the truncated base pointer on the stack. This means that the
stack tracer will not be able to follow the base-pointer changes and
will see all subsequent stack frames as unreliable.

This patch changes the code to use a different register (%rcx) for the
checking and leaves %rbp untouched.

Signed-off-by: default avatarVegard Nossum <vegard.nossum@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarPekka Enberg <penberg@cs.helsinki.fi>
Acked-by: default avatarArjan van de Ven <arjan@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Andi Kleen <andi@firstfloor.org>
Cc: Pekka Enberg <penberg@cs.helsinki.fi>
Signed-off-by: default avatarIngo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
parent 543cf4cb
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