Revert "x86/entry: Fix the end of the stack for newly forked tasks"
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: ff3f7e24 ("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: ff3f7e24 ("x86/entry: Fix the end of the stack for newly forked tasks") Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/f350760f7e82f0750c8d1dd093456eb212751caa.1495553739.git.jpoimboe@redhat.comSigned-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
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