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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
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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/kernel/machine_kexec_64.c')
-rw-r--r--arch/powerpc/kernel/machine_kexec_64.c6
1 files changed, 2 insertions, 4 deletions
diff --git a/arch/powerpc/kernel/machine_kexec_64.c b/arch/powerpc/kernel/machine_kexec_64.c
index a0f6f45005bd..75692c327ba0 100644
--- a/arch/powerpc/kernel/machine_kexec_64.c
+++ b/arch/powerpc/kernel/machine_kexec_64.c
@@ -317,10 +317,8 @@ void default_machine_kexec(struct kimage *image)
* We setup preempt_count to avoid using VMX in memcpy.
* XXX: the task struct will likely be invalid once we do the copy!
*/
- kexec_stack.thread_info.task = current_thread_info()->task;
- kexec_stack.thread_info.flags = 0;
- kexec_stack.thread_info.preempt_count = HARDIRQ_OFFSET;
- kexec_stack.thread_info.cpu = current_thread_info()->cpu;
+ current_thread_info()->flags = 0;
+ current_thread_info()->preempt_count = HARDIRQ_OFFSET;
/* We need a static PACA, too; copy this CPU's PACA over and switch to
* it. Also poison per_cpu_offset and NULL lppaca to catch anyone using