x86/unwind: Warn on bad frame pointer

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Detect situations in the unwinder where the frame pointer refers to a
bad address, and print an appropriate warning.

Use printk_deferred_once() because the unwinder can be called with the
console lock by lockdep via save_stack_trace().

Signed-off-by: Josh Poimboeuf <jpoimboe@redhat.com>
Cc: Andy Lutomirski <luto@kernel.org>
Cc: Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de>
Cc: Brian Gerst <brgerst@gmail.com>
Cc: Denys Vlasenko <dvlasenk@redhat.com>
Cc: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/03c888f6f7414d54fa56b393ea25482be6899b5f.1477496147.git.jpoimboe@redhat.com
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>

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Josh Poimboeuf 2016-10-26 10:41:48 -05:00 • committed by Ingo Molnar

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