From d4311ff1a8da48d609db9500f121c15580dfeeb7 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Aaron Tomlin Date: Fri, 12 Sep 2014 14:16:17 +0100 Subject: 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 Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) Acked-by: Oleg Nesterov Acked-by: Michael Ellerman 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 Cc: Andrew Morton Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt Cc: Daeseok Youn Cc: David Rientjes Cc: Fabian Frederick Cc: Geert Uytterhoeven Cc: Jiri Olsa Cc: Kees Cook Cc: Kirill A. Shutemov Cc: Linus Torvalds Cc: Masami Hiramatsu Cc: Michael Opdenacker Cc: Paul Mackerras Cc: Prarit Bhargava Cc: Rik van Riel Cc: Rusty Russell Cc: Seiji Aguchi Cc: Steven Rostedt Cc: Vladimir Davydov Cc: Yasuaki Ishimatsu 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 --- init/main.c | 1 + 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+) (limited to 'init/main.c') diff --git a/init/main.c b/init/main.c index bb1aed928f21..5fc3fc7bd475 100644 --- a/init/main.c +++ b/init/main.c @@ -508,6 +508,7 @@ asmlinkage __visible void __init start_kernel(void) * lockdep hash: */ lockdep_init(); + set_task_stack_end_magic(&init_task); smp_setup_processor_id(); debug_objects_early_init(); -- cgit v1.2.3