tracing, x86: add low level support for ftrace return tracing

Impact: add infrastructure for function-return tracing

Add low level support for ftrace return tracing.

This plug-in stores return addresses on the thread_info structure of
the current task.

The index of the current return address is initialized when the task
is the first one (init) and when a process forks (the child). It is
not needed when a task does a sys_execve because after this syscall,
it still needs to return on the kernel functions it called.

Note that the code of return_to_handler has been suggested by Steven
Rostedt as almost all of the ideas of improvements in this V3.

For purpose of security, arch/x86/kernel/process_32.c is not traced
because __switch_to() changes the current task during its execution.
That could cause inconsistency in the stored return address of this
function even if I didn't have any crash after testing with tracing on
this function enabled.

Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>

1 files changed, 11 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/include/linux/sched.h b/include/linux/sched.h
index 295b7c756ca6..df77abe860c9 100644
--- a/include/linux/sched.h
+++ b/include/linux/sched.h
@@ -2005,6 +2005,17 @@ static inline void setup_thread_stack(struct task_struct *p, struct task_struct
 {
 	*task_thread_info(p) = *task_thread_info(org);
 	task_thread_info(p)->task = p;
+
+#ifdef CONFIG_FUNCTION_RET_TRACER
+	/*
+	 * When fork() creates a child process, this function is called.
+	 * But the child task may not inherit the return adresses traced
+	 * by the return function tracer because it will directly execute
+	 * in userspace and will not return to kernel functions its parent
+	 * used.
+	 */
+	task_thread_info(p)->curr_ret_stack = -1;
+#endif
 }
 
 static inline unsigned long *end_of_stack(struct task_struct *p)