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The arm64 stacktrace code is careful to only dereference frame records in valid stack ranges, ensuring that a corrupted frame record won't result in a faulting access. However, it's still possible for corrupt frame records to result in infinite loops in the stacktrace code, which is also undesirable. This patch ensures that we complete a stacktrace in finite time, by keeping track of which stacks we have already completed unwinding, and verifying that if the next frame record is on the same stack, it is at a higher address. As this has turned out to be particularly subtle, comments are added to explain the procedure. Signed-off-by: Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@arm.com> Reviewed-by: James Morse <james.morse@arm.com> Tested-by: James Morse <james.morse@arm.com> Acked-by: Dave Martin <Dave.Martin@arm.com> Acked-by: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com> Cc: Tengfei Fan <tengfeif@codeaurora.org> Signed-off-by: Will Deacon <will@kernel.org>
Linux kernel
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There are several guides for kernel developers and users. These guides can
be rendered in a number of formats, like HTML and PDF. Please read
Documentation/admin-guide/README.rst first.
In order to build the documentation, use ``make htmldocs`` or
``make pdfdocs``. The formatted documentation can also be read online at:
https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/
There are various text files in the Documentation/ subdirectory,
several of them using the Restructured Text markup notation.
Please read the Documentation/process/changes.rst file, as it contains the
requirements for building and running the kernel, and information about
the problems which may result by upgrading your kernel.