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authorAaron Tomlin <atomlin@redhat.com>2014-09-12 14:16:17 +0100
committerIngo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>2014-09-19 12:35:22 +0200
commitd4311ff1a8da48d609db9500f121c15580dfeeb7 (patch)
tree620cbe6099315aa528f173ae2ff70ee13ddd55f5 /kernel/fork.c
parenta15b12ac36ad4e7b856a4ae54937ae26a51aebad (diff)
downloadlinux-d4311ff1a8da48d609db9500f121c15580dfeeb7.tar.bz2
init/main.c: Give init_task a canary
Tasks get their end of stack set to STACK_END_MAGIC with the aim to catch stack overruns. Currently this feature does not apply to init_task. This patch removes this restriction. Note that a similar patch was posted by Prarit Bhargava some time ago but was never merged: http://marc.info/?l=linux-kernel&m=127144305403241&w=2 Signed-off-by: Aaron Tomlin <atomlin@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org> Acked-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com> Acked-by: Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au> Cc: aneesh.kumar@linux.vnet.ibm.com Cc: dzickus@redhat.com Cc: bmr@redhat.com Cc: jcastillo@redhat.com Cc: jgh@redhat.com Cc: minchan@kernel.org Cc: tglx@linutronix.de Cc: hannes@cmpxchg.org Cc: Alex Thorlton <athorlton@sgi.com> Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org> Cc: Daeseok Youn <daeseok.youn@gmail.com> Cc: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com> Cc: Fabian Frederick <fabf@skynet.be> Cc: Geert Uytterhoeven <geert@linux-m68k.org> Cc: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@redhat.com> Cc: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org> Cc: Kirill A. Shutemov <kirill.shutemov@linux.intel.com> Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Masami Hiramatsu <masami.hiramatsu.pt@hitachi.com> Cc: Michael Opdenacker <michael.opdenacker@free-electrons.com> Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org> Cc: Prarit Bhargava <prarit@redhat.com> Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com> Cc: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au> Cc: Seiji Aguchi <seiji.aguchi@hds.com> Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org> Cc: Vladimir Davydov <vdavydov@parallels.com> Cc: Yasuaki Ishimatsu <isimatu.yasuaki@jp.fujitsu.com> Cc: linuxppc-dev@lists.ozlabs.org Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1410527779-8133-2-git-send-email-atomlin@redhat.com Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'kernel/fork.c')
-rw-r--r--kernel/fork.c12
1 files changed, 9 insertions, 3 deletions
diff --git a/kernel/fork.c b/kernel/fork.c
index 9387ae8ab048..ad64248c4b18 100644
--- a/kernel/fork.c
+++ b/kernel/fork.c
@@ -294,11 +294,18 @@ int __weak arch_dup_task_struct(struct task_struct *dst,
return 0;
}
+void set_task_stack_end_magic(struct task_struct *tsk)
+{
+ unsigned long *stackend;
+
+ stackend = end_of_stack(tsk);
+ *stackend = STACK_END_MAGIC; /* for overflow detection */
+}
+
static struct task_struct *dup_task_struct(struct task_struct *orig)
{
struct task_struct *tsk;
struct thread_info *ti;
- unsigned long *stackend;
int node = tsk_fork_get_node(orig);
int err;
@@ -328,8 +335,7 @@ static struct task_struct *dup_task_struct(struct task_struct *orig)
setup_thread_stack(tsk, orig);
clear_user_return_notifier(tsk);
clear_tsk_need_resched(tsk);
- stackend = end_of_stack(tsk);
- *stackend = STACK_END_MAGIC; /* for overflow detection */
+ set_task_stack_end_magic(tsk);
#ifdef CONFIG_CC_STACKPROTECTOR
tsk->stack_canary = get_random_int();