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[v2,1/2] eal_debug: do not use malloc in rte_dump_stack

Message ID 20220212184433.66791-2-stephen@networkplumber.org (mailing list archive)
State Superseded, archived
Delegated to: David Marchand
Headers
Series rte_dump_stack: improvements |

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Commit Message

Stephen Hemminger Feb. 12, 2022, 6:44 p.m. UTC 
  The glibc backtrace_symbols() calls malloc which makes it
dangerous to use rte_dump_stack() in a signal handler that
is handling errors that maybe due to memory corruption.

Instead, use dladdr() to lookup up symbols incrementally.

The format of the messages is based on what X org server
has been doing for many years. It changes from bottom up
to top down order.

Signed-off-by: Stephen Hemminger <stephen@networkplumber.org>
---
 lib/eal/linux/eal_debug.c | 46 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++----------
 1 file changed, 34 insertions(+), 12 deletions(-)

Comments

Thomas Monjalon Feb. 13, 2022, 11:41 a.m. UTC | #1 
12/02/2022 19:44, Stephen Hemminger:
> The glibc backtrace_symbols() calls malloc which makes it
> dangerous to use rte_dump_stack() in a signal handler that
> is handling errors that maybe due to memory corruption.
> 
> Instead, use dladdr() to lookup up symbols incrementally.
> 
> The format of the messages is based on what X org server
> has been doing for many years. It changes from bottom up
> to top down order.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Stephen Hemminger <stephen@networkplumber.org>

Morten acked the RFC.
Is there any significant change?
Stephen Hemminger March 17, 2022, 11:13 p.m. UTC | #2 
On Sun, 13 Feb 2022 12:41:59 +0100
Thomas Monjalon <thomas@monjalon.net> wrote:

> 12/02/2022 19:44, Stephen Hemminger:
> > The glibc backtrace_symbols() calls malloc which makes it
> > dangerous to use rte_dump_stack() in a signal handler that
> > is handling errors that maybe due to memory corruption.
> > 
> > Instead, use dladdr() to lookup up symbols incrementally.
> > 
> > The format of the messages is based on what X org server
> > has been doing for many years. It changes from bottom up
> > to top down order.
> > 
> > Signed-off-by: Stephen Hemminger <stephen@networkplumber.org>  
> 
> Morten acked the RFC.
> Is there any significant change?
> 
> 
> 

The change was making it not RFC.
Lets make a common code for this FreeBSD should have same code.
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diff --git a/lib/eal/linux/eal_debug.c b/lib/eal/linux/eal_debug.c
index 64dab4e0da24..51f24e3cccdf 100644
--- a/lib/eal/linux/eal_debug.c
+++ b/lib/eal/linux/eal_debug.c
@@ -4,6 +4,7 @@ 
 
 #ifdef RTE_BACKTRACE
 #include <execinfo.h>
+#include <dlfcn.h>
 #endif
 #include <stdarg.h>
 #include <signal.h>
@@ -18,26 +19,47 @@ 
 
 #define BACKTRACE_SIZE 256
 
-/* dump the stack of the calling core */
+/* Dump the stack of the calling core
+ *
+ * Note: this requires limiting what functions are used in this code to stay safe
+ * when called from a signal handler and malloc pool maybe corrupt.
+ */
 void rte_dump_stack(void)
 {
 #ifdef RTE_BACKTRACE
 	void *func[BACKTRACE_SIZE];
-	char **symb = NULL;
-	int size;
+	int i, size;
 
 	size = backtrace(func, BACKTRACE_SIZE);
-	symb = backtrace_symbols(func, size);
 
-	if (symb == NULL)
-		return;
+	for (i = 0; i < size; i++) {
+		void *pc = func[i];
+		const char *fname;
+		Dl_info info;
 
-	while (size > 0) {
-		rte_log(RTE_LOG_ERR, RTE_LOGTYPE_EAL,
-			"%d: [%s]\n", size, symb[size - 1]);
-		size --;
-	}
+		if (dladdr(pc, &info) == 0) {
+			/* If symbol information not found print in hex */
+			rte_log(RTE_LOG_ERR, RTE_LOGTYPE_EAL,
+				"%d: ?? [%p]\n", i, pc);
+			continue;
+		}
 
-	free(symb);
+		/* Is file name known? */
+		fname = (info.dli_fname && *info.dli_fname) ? info.dli_fname : "(vdso)";
+
+		/* Is symbol name known? */
+		if (info.dli_sname != NULL)
+			rte_log(RTE_LOG_ERR, RTE_LOGTYPE_EAL,
+				"%d: %s (%s+%#tx) [%p]\n",
+				i, fname, info.dli_sname,
+				(ptrdiff_t)((uintptr_t)pc - (uintptr_t)info.dli_saddr),
+				pc);
+		else
+			rte_log(RTE_LOG_ERR, RTE_LOGTYPE_EAL,
+				"%d: %s (%p+%#tx) [%p]\n",
+				i, fname, info.dli_fbase,
+				(ptrdiff_t)((uintptr_t)pc - (uintptr_t)info.dli_fbase),
+				pc);
+	}
 #endif /* RTE_BACKTRACE */
 }