wasmtime_internal_unwinder/stackwalk.rs
1//! Stack-walking of a Wasm stack.
2//!
3//! A stack walk requires a first and last frame pointer (FP), and it
4//! only works on code that has been compiled with frame pointers
5//! enabled (`preserve_frame_pointers` Cranelift option enabled). The
6//! stack walk follows the singly-linked list of saved frame pointer
7//! and return address pairs on the stack that is naturally built by
8//! function prologues.
9//!
10//! This crate makes use of the fact that Wasmtime surrounds Wasm
11//! frames by trampolines both at entry and exit, and is "up the
12//! stack" from the point doing the unwinding: in other words, host
13//! code invokes Wasm code via an entry trampoline, that code may call
14//! other Wasm code, and ultimately it calls back to host code via an
15//! exit trampoline. That exit trampoline is able to provide the
16//! "start FP" (FP at exit trampoline) and "end FP" (FP at entry
17//! trampoline) and this stack-walker can visit all Wasm frames
18//! active on the stack between those two.
19//!
20//! This module provides a visitor interface to frames, but is
21//! agnostic to the desired use-case or consumer of the frames, and to
22//! the overall runtime structure.
23
24use core::ops::ControlFlow;
25
26/// Implementation necessary to unwind the stack, used by `Backtrace`.
27///
28/// # Safety
29///
30/// This trait is `unsafe` because the return values of each function are
31/// required to be semantically correct when connected to the `visit_frames`
32/// function below. Incorrect and/or arbitrary values in this trait will cause
33/// unwinding to segfault or otherwise result in UB.
34pub unsafe trait Unwind {
35 /// Returns the offset, from the current frame pointer, of where to get to
36 /// the previous frame pointer on the stack.
37 fn next_older_fp_from_fp_offset(&self) -> usize;
38
39 /// Returns the offset, from the current frame pointer, of the
40 /// stack pointer of the next older frame.
41 fn next_older_sp_from_fp_offset(&self) -> usize;
42
43 /// Load the return address of a frame given the frame pointer for that
44 /// frame.
45 ///
46 /// # Safety
47 ///
48 /// This function is expected to read raw memory from `fp` and thus is not
49 /// safe to operate on any value of `fp` passed in, instead it must be a
50 /// trusted Cranelift-defined frame pointer.
51 unsafe fn get_next_older_pc_from_fp(&self, fp: usize) -> usize;
52
53 /// Debug assertion that the frame pointer is aligned.
54 fn assert_fp_is_aligned(&self, fp: usize);
55}
56
57/// A stack frame within a Wasm stack trace.
58#[derive(Debug)]
59pub struct Frame {
60 /// The program counter in this frame. Because every frame in the
61 /// stack-walk is paused at a call (as we are in host code called
62 /// by Wasm code below these frames), the PC is at the return
63 /// address, i.e., points to the instruction after the call
64 /// instruction.
65 pc: usize,
66 /// The frame pointer value corresponding to this frame.
67 fp: usize,
68}
69
70impl Frame {
71 /// Get this frame's program counter.
72 pub fn pc(&self) -> usize {
73 self.pc
74 }
75
76 /// Get this frame's frame pointer.
77 pub fn fp(&self) -> usize {
78 self.fp
79 }
80
81 /// Read out a machine-word-sized value at the given offset from
82 /// FP in this frame.
83 ///
84 /// # Safety
85 ///
86 /// Requires that this frame is a valid, active frame. A `Frame`
87 /// provided by `visit_frames()` will be valid for the duration of
88 /// the invoked closure.
89 ///
90 /// Requires that `offset` falls within the size of this
91 /// frame. This ordinarily requires knowledge passed from the
92 /// compiler that produced the running function, e.g., Cranelift.
93 pub unsafe fn read_slot_from_fp(&self, offset: isize) -> usize {
94 // SAFETY: we required that this is a valid frame, and that
95 // `offset` is a valid offset within that frame.
96 unsafe { *(self.fp.wrapping_add_signed(offset) as *mut usize) }
97 }
98}
99
100/// Provide an iterator that walks through a contiguous sequence of
101/// Wasm frames starting with the frame at the given PC and FP and
102/// ending at `trampoline_fp`. This FP should correspond to that of a
103/// trampoline that was used to enter the Wasm code.
104///
105/// We require that the initial PC, FP, and `trampoline_fp` values are
106/// non-null (non-zero).
107///
108/// # Safety
109///
110/// This function is not safe as `unwind`, `pc`, `fp`, and `trampoline_fp` must
111/// all be "correct" in that if they're wrong or mistakenly have the wrong value
112/// then this method may segfault. These values must point to valid Wasmtime
113/// compiled code which respects the frame pointers that Wasmtime currently
114/// requires.
115///
116/// The iterator that this function returns *must* be consumed while
117/// the frames are still active. That is, it cannot be stashed and
118/// consumed after returning back into the Wasm activation that is
119/// being iterated over.
120///
121/// Ordinarily this can be ensured by holding the unsafe iterator
122/// together with a borrow of the `Store` that owns the stack;
123/// higher-level layers wrap the two together.
124pub unsafe fn frame_iterator(
125 unwind: &dyn Unwind,
126 mut pc: usize,
127 mut fp: usize,
128 trampoline_fp: usize,
129) -> impl Iterator<Item = Frame> {
130 log::trace!("=== Tracing through contiguous sequence of Wasm frames ===");
131 log::trace!("trampoline_fp = 0x{trampoline_fp:016x}");
132 log::trace!(" initial pc = 0x{pc:016x}");
133 log::trace!(" initial fp = 0x{fp:016x}");
134
135 // Safety requirements documented above.
136 assert_ne!(pc, 0);
137 assert_ne!(fp, 0);
138 assert_ne!(trampoline_fp, 0);
139
140 // This loop will walk the linked list of frame pointers starting
141 // at `fp` and going up until `trampoline_fp`. We know that both
142 // `fp` and `trampoline_fp` are "trusted values" aka generated and
143 // maintained by Wasmtime. This means that it should be safe to
144 // walk the linked list of pointers and inspect Wasm frames.
145 //
146 // Note, though, that any frames outside of this range are not
147 // guaranteed to have valid frame pointers. For example native code
148 // might be using the frame pointer as a general purpose register. Thus
149 // we need to be careful to only walk frame pointers in this one
150 // contiguous linked list.
151 //
152 // To know when to stop iteration all architectures' stacks currently
153 // look something like this:
154 //
155 // | ... |
156 // | Native Frames |
157 // | ... |
158 // |-------------------|
159 // | ... | <-- Trampoline FP |
160 // | Trampoline Frame | |
161 // | ... | <-- Trampoline SP |
162 // |-------------------| Stack
163 // | Return Address | Grows
164 // | Previous FP | <-- Wasm FP Down
165 // | ... | |
166 // | Cranelift Frames | |
167 // | ... | V
168 //
169 // The trampoline records its own frame pointer (`trampoline_fp`),
170 // which is guaranteed to be above all Wasm code. To check when
171
172 // to check when the next frame pointer is equal to
173 // `trampoline_fp`. Once that's hit then we know that the entire
174 // linked list has been traversed.
175 //
176 // Note that it might be possible that this loop doesn't execute
177 // at all. For example if the entry trampoline called Wasm code
178 // which `return_call`'d an exit trampoline, then `fp ==
179 // trampoline_fp` on the entry of this function, meaning the loop
180 // won't actually execute anything.
181 core::iter::from_fn(move || {
182 if fp == trampoline_fp {
183 log::trace!("=== Done tracing contiguous sequence of Wasm frames ===");
184 return None;
185 }
186
187 // At the start of each iteration of the loop, we know that
188 // `fp` is a frame pointer from Wasm code. Therefore, we know
189 // it is not being used as an extra general-purpose register,
190 // and it is safe dereference to get the PC and the next older
191 // frame pointer.
192 //
193 // The stack also grows down, and therefore any frame pointer
194 // we are dealing with should be less than the frame pointer
195 // on entry to Wasm code. Finally also assert that it's
196 // aligned correctly as an additional sanity check.
197 assert!(trampoline_fp > fp, "{trampoline_fp:#x} > {fp:#x}");
198 unwind.assert_fp_is_aligned(fp);
199
200 log::trace!("--- Tracing through one Wasm frame ---");
201 log::trace!("pc = {:p}", pc as *const ());
202 log::trace!("fp = {:p}", fp as *const ());
203
204 let frame = Frame { pc, fp };
205
206 // SAFETY: this unsafe traversal of the linked list on the stack is
207 // reflected in the contract of this function where `pc`, `fp`,
208 // `trampoline_fp`, and `unwind` must all be trusted/correct values.
209 unsafe {
210 pc = unwind.get_next_older_pc_from_fp(fp);
211
212 // We rely on this offset being zero for all supported
213 // architectures in
214 // `crates/cranelift/src/component/compiler.s`r when we set
215 // the Wasm exit FP. If this ever changes, we will need to
216 // update that code as well!
217 assert_eq!(unwind.next_older_fp_from_fp_offset(), 0);
218
219 // Get the next older frame pointer from the current Wasm
220 // frame pointer.
221 let next_older_fp = *(fp as *mut usize).add(unwind.next_older_fp_from_fp_offset());
222
223 // Because the stack always grows down, the older FP must be greater
224 // than the current FP.
225 assert!(next_older_fp > fp, "{next_older_fp:#x} > {fp:#x}");
226 fp = next_older_fp;
227 }
228
229 Some(frame)
230 })
231}
232
233/// Walk through a contiguous sequence of Wasm frames starting with
234/// the frame at the given PC and FP and ending at
235/// `trampoline_fp`. This FP should correspond to that of a trampoline
236/// that was used to enter the Wasm code.
237///
238/// We require that the initial PC, FP, and `trampoline_fp` values are
239/// non-null (non-zero).
240///
241/// # Safety
242///
243/// This function is not safe as `unwind`, `pc`, `fp`, and `trampoline_fp` must
244/// all be "correct" in that if they're wrong or mistakenly have the wrong value
245/// then this method may segfault. These values must point to valid Wasmtime
246/// compiled code which respects the frame pointers that Wasmtime currently
247/// requires.
248pub unsafe fn visit_frames<R>(
249 unwind: &dyn Unwind,
250 pc: usize,
251 fp: usize,
252 trampoline_fp: usize,
253 mut f: impl FnMut(Frame) -> ControlFlow<R>,
254) -> ControlFlow<R> {
255 let iter = unsafe { frame_iterator(unwind, pc, fp, trampoline_fp) };
256 for frame in iter {
257 f(frame)?;
258 }
259
260 ControlFlow::Continue(())
261}