[1/1] MIPS: Avoid accidental raw backtrace
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James Hogan June 29, 2017, 2:05 p.m. UTC 
Since commit 81a76d7119f6 ("MIPS: Avoid using unwind_stack() with
usermode") show_backtrace() invokes the raw backtracer when
cp0_status & ST0_KSU indicates user mode to fix issues on EVA kernels
where user and kernel address spaces overlap.

However this is used by show_stack() which creates its own pt_regs on
the stack and leaves cp0_status uninitialised in most of the code paths.
This results in the non deterministic use of the raw back tracer
depending on the previous stack content.

show_stack() deals exclusively with kernel mode stacks anyway, so
explicitly initialise regs.cp0_status to KSU_KERNEL (i.e. 0) to ensure
we get a useful backtrace.

Fixes: 81a76d7119f6 ("MIPS: Avoid using unwind_stack() with usermode")
Signed-off-by: James Hogan <>
Cc: Ralf Baechle <>
Cc: 
Cc: <> # 3.15+
---
 arch/mips/kernel/traps.c | 2 ++
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-)

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diff --git a/arch/mips/kernel/traps.c b/arch/mips/kernel/traps.c
index 9681b5877140..38dfa27730ff 100644
--- a/arch/mips/kernel/traps.c
+++ b/arch/mips/kernel/traps.c
@@ -201,6 +201,8 @@  void show_stack(struct task_struct *task, unsigned long *sp)
 {
 	struct pt_regs regs;
 	mm_segment_t old_fs = get_fs();
+
+	regs.cp0_status = KSU_KERNEL;
 	if (sp) {
 		regs.regs[29] = (unsigned long)sp;
 		regs.regs[31] = 0;