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authorStefan Liebler <stli@linux.vnet.ibm.com>2017-11-21 08:45:28 +0100
committerStefan Liebler <stli@linux.vnet.ibm.com>2017-11-21 08:45:28 +0100
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S390: Add cfi information for start routines in order to stop unwinding.
GDB failed to detect the outermost frame while showing the backtrace
within a thread:
Backtrace stopped: previous frame identical to this frame (corrupt stack?)

Before this patch, the start routines like thread_start had no cfi information.
GDB is then using the prologue unwinder if no cfi information is available.
This unwinder tries to unwind r15 and stops e.g. if r15 was updated or
on some jump-instructions.

On older glibc-versions (before commit "Remove cached PID/TID in clone"
c579f48edba88380635ab98cb612030e3ed8691e), the thread_start function used
such a jump-instruction and GDB did not fail with an error.

This patch adds cfi information for _start, thread_start and __makecontext_ret
and marks r14 as undefined which marks the frame as outermost frame and GDB
stops the backtrace. Also tested different gcc versions in order to test
_Unwind_Backtrace() in libgcc as this is used by backtrace() in glibc.

ChangeLog:

	* sysdeps/s390/s390-64/start.S (_start): Add cfi information for r14.
	* sysdeps/s390/s390-32/start.S: (_start): Likewise
	* sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/s390/s390-64/clone.S
	(thread_start): Likewise.
	* sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/s390/s390-32/clone.S
	(thread_start): Likewise.
	* sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/s390/s390-64/__makecontext_ret.S
	(__makecontext_ret): Likewise.
	* sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/s390/s390-32/__makecontext_ret.S
	(__makecontext_ret): Likewise.
Diffstat (limited to 'sysdeps/s390/s390-32/start.S')
-rw-r--r--sysdeps/s390/s390-32/start.S7
1 files changed, 7 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/sysdeps/s390/s390-32/start.S b/sysdeps/s390/s390-32/start.S
index 07400f1752..66c00f3b0a 100644
--- a/sysdeps/s390/s390-32/start.S
+++ b/sysdeps/s390/s390-32/start.S
@@ -34,6 +34,8 @@
    License along with the GNU C Library; if not, see
    <http://www.gnu.org/licenses/>.  */
 
+#include <sysdep.h>
+
 /*
    This is the canonical entry point, usually the first thing in the text
    segment. Most registers' values are unspecified, except for:
@@ -57,6 +59,10 @@
 	.globl _start
 	.type _start,@function
 _start:
+	cfi_startproc
+	/* Mark r14 as undefined in order to stop unwinding here!  */
+	cfi_undefined (r14)
+
 	/* Check if the kernel provides highgprs facility if needed by
 	   the binary.  */
 
@@ -188,6 +194,7 @@ _start:
 	/* crash if __libc_start_main returns */
 	.word   0
 
+	cfi_endproc
 .Llit:
 #ifndef PIC
 .L1:    .long  __libc_csu_init