> On Aug 28, 2018, at 4:33 AM, Andrey Ryabinin <aryabi...@virtuozzo.com> wrote:
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> On 08/28/2018 01:38 PM, Jann Horn wrote:
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>>> Why this has to be done in the rewind_stack_do_exit()?
>>> Are there any problems with calling the kasan_unpoison_task_stack(current)
>>> from oops_end(), before the rewind_stack_do_exit()?
>>
>> Ooh, good point! I didn't see that KASAN instrumentation is disabled
>> for dumpstack.c.
>
> It doesn't really matter. This would work with instrumented oops_end() as
> well.
> kasan_unpoison_task_stack() will unpoison everything including oops_end's
> stack.
> It would be also ok if kasan_unpoison_task_stack() instrumented, or calling
> any number of instrumented functions
> in between kasan_unpoison_task_stack() and rewind_stack_do_exit(). As long as
> we return from these functions before
> the rewind_stack_do_exit(), the stack will be unpoisoned on return.
I think that, if all this is in C, we need rewind_stack_do_exit()’s caller to
be uninstrumented. Which it is.
