Subject: [RFC PATCH 13/19] powerpc: copy_thread add a back chain to the switch stack frame

From: Nicholas Piggin <[email-masked]>
Date: Mon, 31 Oct 2022 15:54:34 +1000

Stack unwinders need LR and the back chain as a minimum. The switch
stack uses regs->nip for its return pointer rather than lrsave, so
that was not filled in, and neither was the back chain.

With this and the previous change, a stack trace in the switch or
interrupt stack goes from looking like this:

  Oops: Exception in kernel mode, sig: 5 [#1]
  LE PAGE_SIZE=64K MMU=Radix SMP NR_CPUS=2048 NUMA pSeries
  Modules linked in:
  CPU: 3 PID: 90 Comm: systemd Not tainted
  NIP:  c000000000011060 LR: c000000000010f68 CTR: 0000000000007fff
  [ ... regs ... ]
  NIP [c000000000011060] _switch+0x160/0x17c
  LR [c000000000010f68] _switch+0x68/0x17c
  Call Trace:

To this:

  Oops: Exception in kernel mode, sig: 5 [#1]
  LE PAGE_SIZE=64K MMU=Radix SMP NR_CPUS=2048 NUMA pSeries
  CPU: 0 PID: 93 Comm: systemd Not tainted
  NIP:  c000000000011060 LR: c000000000010f68 CTR: 0000000000007fff
  [ ... regs ... ]
  NIP [c000000000011060] _switch+0x160/0x17c
  LR [c000000000010f68] _switch+0x68/0x17c
  Call Trace:
  [c000000005a93e10] [c00000000000cdbc] ret_from_fork_scv+0x0/0x54
  --- interrupt: 3000 at 0x7fffa72f56d8
  NIP:  00007fffa72f56d8 LR: 0000000000000000 CTR: 0000000000000000
  [ ... regs ... ]
  NIP [00007fffa72f56d8] 0x7fffa72f56d8
  LR [0000000000000000] 0x0
  --- interrupt: 3000

Signed-off-by: Nicholas Piggin <[email-masked]>
---
 arch/powerpc/kernel/process.c | 2 ++
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+)

diff --git a/arch/powerpc/kernel/process.c b/arch/powerpc/kernel/process.c
index 27956831fa5d..6cb3982a11ef 100644
--- a/arch/powerpc/kernel/process.c
+++ b/arch/powerpc/kernel/process.c
@@ -1781,7 +1781,9 @@ int copy_thread(struct task_struct *p, const struct kernel_clone_args *args)
 	 * do some house keeping and then return from the fork or clone
 	 * system call, using the stack frame created above.
 	 */
+	((unsigned long *)sp)[STACK_FRAME_LR_SAVE] = (unsigned long)f;
 	sp -= STACK_SWITCH_FRAME_SIZE;
+	((unsigned long *)sp)[0] = sp + STACK_SWITCH_FRAME_SIZE;
 	kregs = (struct pt_regs *)(sp + STACK_SWITCH_FRAME_REGS);
 	p->thread.ksp = sp;
 
-- 
2.37.2