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Commit 372a8eaa authored by Josh Poimboeuf's avatar Josh Poimboeuf Committed by Thomas Gleixner
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x86/unwind/orc: Fix ORC for newly forked tasks



The ORC unwinder fails to unwind newly forked tasks which haven't yet
run on the CPU.  It correctly reads the 'ret_from_fork' instruction
pointer from the stack, but it incorrectly interprets that value as a
call stack address rather than a "signal" one, so the address gets
incorrectly decremented in the call to orc_find(), resulting in bad ORC
data.

Fix it by forcing 'ret_from_fork' frames to be signal frames.

Reported-by: default avatarWang ShaoBo <bobo.shaobowang@huawei.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarJosh Poimboeuf <jpoimboe@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarThomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Tested-by: default avatarWang ShaoBo <bobo.shaobowang@huawei.com>
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/f91a8778dde8aae7f71884b5df2b16d552040441.1594994374.git.jpoimboe@redhat.com
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