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authorAaron Tomlin <atomlin@redhat.com>2014-09-12 14:16:19 +0100
committerIngo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>2014-09-19 12:35:24 +0200
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sched: Add default-disabled option to BUG() when stack end location is overwritten
Currently in the event of a stack overrun a call to schedule() does not check for this type of corruption. This corruption is often silent and can go unnoticed. However once the corrupted region is examined at a later stage, the outcome is undefined and often results in a sporadic page fault which cannot be handled. This patch checks for a stack overrun and takes appropriate action since the damage is already done, there is no point in continuing. Signed-off-by: Aaron Tomlin <atomlin@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: aneesh.kumar@linux.vnet.ibm.com Cc: dzickus@redhat.com Cc: bmr@redhat.com Cc: jcastillo@redhat.com Cc: oleg@redhat.com Cc: riel@redhat.com Cc: prarit@redhat.com Cc: jgh@redhat.com Cc: minchan@kernel.org Cc: mpe@ellerman.id.au Cc: tglx@linutronix.de Cc: rostedt@goodmis.org Cc: hannes@cmpxchg.org Cc: Alexei Starovoitov <ast@plumgrid.com> Cc: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk> Cc: Andi Kleen <ak@linux.intel.com> Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Dan Streetman <ddstreet@ieee.org> Cc: Davidlohr Bueso <davidlohr@hp.com> Cc: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net> Cc: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org> Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Lubomir Rintel <lkundrak@v3.sk> Cc: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1410527779-8133-4-git-send-email-atomlin@redhat.com Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'lib')
-rw-r--r--lib/Kconfig.debug12
1 files changed, 12 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/lib/Kconfig.debug b/lib/Kconfig.debug
index a28590083622..e58163d69db1 100644
--- a/lib/Kconfig.debug
+++ b/lib/Kconfig.debug
@@ -824,6 +824,18 @@ config SCHEDSTATS
application, you can say N to avoid the very slight overhead
this adds.
+config SCHED_STACK_END_CHECK
+ bool "Detect stack corruption on calls to schedule()"
+ depends on DEBUG_KERNEL
+ default n
+ help
+ This option checks for a stack overrun on calls to schedule().
+ If the stack end location is found to be over written always panic as
+ the content of the corrupted region can no longer be trusted.
+ This is to ensure no erroneous behaviour occurs which could result in
+ data corruption or a sporadic crash at a later stage once the region
+ is examined. The runtime overhead introduced is minimal.
+
config TIMER_STATS
bool "Collect kernel timers statistics"
depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && PROC_FS