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authorStian Halseth <stian@itx.no>2026-09-23 21:34:32 +0200
committerArnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>2026-09-24 19:22:06 +0200
commitd8fd56321d7bb5df31cdf33e9acbd62f4606b483 (patch)
tree66dc16217e275023c82acd5192ee550bafb0a1ac
parentedd8a9fe2eca009599e013a29c421c7a6b5ad1b9 (diff)
perf unwind-libdw: Fix reading the stack of a 32-bit task
memory_read() hands libdw 8 bytes whatever the sampled task's ABI. For a 32-bit task libdw keeps the low 32 bits (__libdwfl_frame_reg_set()), so on a big-endian machine each word read from the stack or a DSO is the one at addr + 4, and unwinding stops at the first frame restored from the stack. On sparc the 8-byte load from a stack address that is only 4-byte aligned even traps, and perf dies with SIGBUS. Read 4 bytes for a PERF_SAMPLE_REGS_ABI_32 sample. A recording of the other byte order has each sample swapped in 8-byte units when it is read (perf_event__all64_swap()), which leaves the 4-byte words of a 32-bit stack dump reversed and paired up wrongly. Undo the swap of the unit holding the word and swap the word itself, as __evsel__parse_sample() does for PERF_SAMPLE_CPU. Suggested-by: Ian Rogers <irogers@google.com> Reviewed-by: Ian Rogers <irogers@google.com> Signed-off-by: Stian Halseth <stian@itx.no> Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
-rw-r--r--tools/perf/util/unwind-libdw.c46
1 files changed, 39 insertions, 7 deletions
diff --git a/tools/perf/util/unwind-libdw.c b/tools/perf/util/unwind-libdw.c
index 4ccfcc7c2dfc..d49901b1571e 100644
--- a/tools/perf/util/unwind-libdw.c
+++ b/tools/perf/util/unwind-libdw.c
@@ -4,6 +4,7 @@
#include <elfutils/libdw.h>
#include <elfutils/libdwfl.h>
#include <inttypes.h>
+#include <byteswap.h>
#include <errno.h>
#include "debug.h"
#include "dso.h"
@@ -17,6 +18,8 @@
#include <linux/types.h>
#include <linux/zalloc.h>
#include "event.h"
+#include "evsel.h"
+#include "memswap.h"
#include "perf_regs.h"
#include "callchain.h"
#include "util/env.h"
@@ -203,9 +206,10 @@ static bool get_thread(Dwfl *dwfl __maybe_unused, pid_t tid, void *arg,
}
static int access_dso_mem(struct unwind_info *ui, Dwarf_Addr addr,
- Dwarf_Word *data)
+ Dwarf_Word *data, size_t len)
{
struct addr_location al;
+ union u64_swap u;
ssize_t size;
struct dso *dso;
@@ -218,15 +222,38 @@ static int access_dso_mem(struct unwind_info *ui, Dwarf_Addr addr,
if (!dso)
goto out_fail;
- size = dso__data_read_addr(dso, al.map, ui->machine, addr, (u8 *) data, sizeof(*data));
+ size = dso__data_read_addr(dso, al.map, ui->machine, addr, (u8 *)&u, len);
addr_location__exit(&al);
- return !(size == sizeof(*data));
+ if (size != (ssize_t)len)
+ return 1;
+ *data = len == sizeof(u32) ? u.val32[0] : u.val64;
+ return 0;
out_fail:
addr_location__exit(&al);
return -1;
}
+/*
+ * libdw expects a 32-bit task's words zero-extended. A recording of the
+ * other byte order was swapped in 8-byte units when it was read (see
+ * perf_event__all64_swap()), so a 4-byte word is picked out of its unit with
+ * that swap undone, as for PERF_SAMPLE_CPU in __evsel__parse_sample().
+ */
+static Dwarf_Word stack_word(struct stack_dump *stack, int offset, size_t len,
+ bool swapped)
+{
+ union u64_swap u;
+
+ if (len == sizeof(u64))
+ return *(Dwarf_Word *)&stack->data[offset];
+ if (!swapped)
+ return *(u32 *)&stack->data[offset];
+
+ u.val64 = bswap_64(*(u64 *)&stack->data[offset & ~7]);
+ return bswap_32(u.val32[(offset & 4) / 4]);
+}
+
static bool memory_read(Dwfl *dwfl __maybe_unused, Dwarf_Addr addr, Dwarf_Word *result,
void *arg)
{
@@ -234,11 +261,16 @@ static bool memory_read(Dwfl *dwfl __maybe_unused, Dwarf_Addr addr, Dwarf_Word *
struct unwind_info *ui = dwfl_ui_ti->ui;
struct stack_dump *stack = &ui->sample->user_stack;
u64 start, end;
+ bool swapped;
+ size_t len;
int offset;
int ret;
if (!ui->sample->user_regs)
return false;
+ len = ui->sample->user_regs->abi == PERF_SAMPLE_REGS_ABI_32 ?
+ sizeof(u32) : sizeof(u64);
+ swapped = ui->sample->evsel && ui->sample->evsel->needs_swap;
ret = perf_reg_value(&start, ui->sample->user_regs,
perf_arch_reg_sp(ui->e_machine));
@@ -248,11 +280,11 @@ static bool memory_read(Dwfl *dwfl __maybe_unused, Dwarf_Addr addr, Dwarf_Word *
end = start + stack->size;
/* Check overflow. */
- if (addr + sizeof(Dwarf_Word) < addr)
+ if (addr + len < addr)
return false;
- if (addr < start || addr + sizeof(Dwarf_Word) > end) {
- ret = access_dso_mem(ui, addr, result);
+ if (addr < start || addr + len > end) {
+ ret = access_dso_mem(ui, addr, result, len);
if (ret) {
pr_debug("unwind: access_mem 0x%" PRIx64 " not inside range"
" 0x%" PRIx64 "-0x%" PRIx64 "\n",
@@ -263,7 +295,7 @@ static bool memory_read(Dwfl *dwfl __maybe_unused, Dwarf_Addr addr, Dwarf_Word *
}
offset = addr - start;
- *result = *(Dwarf_Word *)&stack->data[offset];
+ *result = stack_word(stack, offset, len, swapped);
pr_debug("unwind: access_mem addr 0x%" PRIx64 ", val %lx, offset %d\n",
addr, (unsigned long)*result, offset);
return true;