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authorChristophe Leroy <christophe.leroy@c-s.fr>2019-01-31 10:08:58 +0000
committerMichael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au>2019-02-23 22:31:40 +1100
commited1cd6deb013a11959d17a94e35ce159197632da (patch)
treefcfdc0de67e7753db653d06938d939fa0f0e924f /arch/powerpc/Kconfig
parent7aef376679a428c6b7792fb4ce93364fd02caad4 (diff)
downloadlinux-ed1cd6deb013a11959d17a94e35ce159197632da.tar.bz2
powerpc: Activate CONFIG_THREAD_INFO_IN_TASK
This patch activates CONFIG_THREAD_INFO_IN_TASK which moves the thread_info into task_struct. Moving thread_info into task_struct has the following advantages: - It protects thread_info from corruption in the case of stack overflows. - Its address is harder to determine if stack addresses are leaked, making a number of attacks more difficult. This has the following consequences: - thread_info is now located at the beginning of task_struct. - The 'cpu' field is now in task_struct, and only exists when CONFIG_SMP is active. - thread_info doesn't have anymore the 'task' field. This patch: - Removes all recopy of thread_info struct when the stack changes. - Changes the CURRENT_THREAD_INFO() macro to point to current. - Selects CONFIG_THREAD_INFO_IN_TASK. - Modifies raw_smp_processor_id() to get ->cpu from current without including linux/sched.h to avoid circular inclusion and without including asm/asm-offsets.h to avoid symbol names duplication between ASM constants and C constants. - Modifies klp_init_thread_info() to take a task_struct pointer argument. Signed-off-by: Christophe Leroy <christophe.leroy@c-s.fr> Reviewed-by: Nicholas Piggin <npiggin@gmail.com> [mpe: Add task_stack.h to livepatch.h to fix build fails] Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au>
Diffstat (limited to 'arch/powerpc/Kconfig')
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1 files changed, 1 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/arch/powerpc/Kconfig b/arch/powerpc/Kconfig
index 5b7945a7bd41..652c25260838 100644
--- a/arch/powerpc/Kconfig
+++ b/arch/powerpc/Kconfig
@@ -238,6 +238,7 @@ config PPC
select RTC_LIB
select SPARSE_IRQ
select SYSCTL_EXCEPTION_TRACE
+ select THREAD_INFO_IN_TASK
select VIRT_TO_BUS if !PPC64
#
# Please keep this list sorted alphabetically.