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parisc: Avoid crash due to unaligned access in unwinder
authorHelge Deller <deller@gmx.de>
Mon, 3 Nov 2025 21:38:26 +0000 (22:38 +0100)
committerHelge Deller <deller@gmx.de>
Tue, 4 Nov 2025 11:21:59 +0000 (12:21 +0100)
commitfd9f30d1038ee1624baa17a6ff11effe5f7617cb
tree23b75584c46a362febc810415c45823e772ef3a6
parent6146a0f1dfae5d37442a9ddcba012add260bceb0
parisc: Avoid crash due to unaligned access in unwinder

Guenter Roeck reported this kernel crash on his emulated B160L machine:

Starting network: udhcpc: started, v1.36.1
 Backtrace:
  [<104320d4>] unwind_once+0x1c/0x5c
  [<10434a00>] walk_stackframe.isra.0+0x74/0xb8
  [<10434a6c>] arch_stack_walk+0x28/0x38
  [<104e5efc>] stack_trace_save+0x48/0x5c
  [<105d1bdc>] set_track_prepare+0x44/0x6c
  [<105d9c80>] ___slab_alloc+0xfc4/0x1024
  [<105d9d38>] __slab_alloc.isra.0+0x58/0x90
  [<105dc80c>] kmem_cache_alloc_noprof+0x2ac/0x4a0
  [<105b8e54>] __anon_vma_prepare+0x60/0x280
  [<105a823c>] __vmf_anon_prepare+0x68/0x94
  [<105a8b34>] do_wp_page+0x8cc/0xf10
  [<105aad88>] handle_mm_fault+0x6c0/0xf08
  [<10425568>] do_page_fault+0x110/0x440
  [<10427938>] handle_interruption+0x184/0x748
  [<11178398>] schedule+0x4c/0x190
  BUG: spinlock recursion on CPU#0, ifconfig/2420
  lock: terminate_lock.2+0x0/0x1c, .magic: dead4ead, .owner: ifconfig/2420, .owner_cpu: 0

While creating the stack trace, the unwinder uses the stack pointer to guess
the previous frame to read the previous stack pointer from memory.  The crash
happens, because the unwinder tries to read from unaligned memory and as such
triggers the unalignment trap handler which then leads to the spinlock
recursion and finally to a deadlock.

Fix it by checking the alignment before accessing the memory.

Reported-by: Guenter Roeck <linux@roeck-us.net>
Signed-off-by: Helge Deller <deller@gmx.de>
Tested-by: Guenter Roeck <linux@roeck-us.net>
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org # v6.12+
arch/parisc/kernel/unwind.c