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authorMitsuo Hayasaka <mitsuo.hayasaka.hu@hitachi.com>2011-11-29 15:08:36 +0900
committerIngo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>2011-12-05 11:37:47 +0100
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x86: Panic on detection of stack overflow
Currently, messages are just output on the detection of stack overflow, which is not sufficient for systems that need a high reliability. This is because in general the overflow may corrupt data, and the additional corruption may occur due to reading them unless systems stop. This patch adds the sysctl parameter kernel.panic_on_stackoverflow and causes a panic when detecting the overflows of kernel, IRQ and exception stacks except user stack according to the parameter. It is disabled by default. Signed-off-by: Mitsuo Hayasaka <mitsuo.hayasaka.hu@hitachi.com> Cc: yrl.pp-manager.tt@hitachi.com Cc: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@xenotime.net> Cc: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20111129060836.11076.12323.stgit@ltc219.sdl.hitachi.co.jp Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Diffstat (limited to 'kernel/sysctl.c')
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1 files changed, 9 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/kernel/sysctl.c b/kernel/sysctl.c
index ae2719643854..f487f257e05e 100644
--- a/kernel/sysctl.c
+++ b/kernel/sysctl.c
@@ -803,6 +803,15 @@ static struct ctl_table kern_table[] = {
.mode = 0644,
.proc_handler = proc_dointvec,
},
+#ifdef CONFIG_DEBUG_STACKOVERFLOW
+ {
+ .procname = "panic_on_stackoverflow",
+ .data = &sysctl_panic_on_stackoverflow,
+ .maxlen = sizeof(int),
+ .mode = 0644,
+ .proc_handler = proc_dointvec,
+ },
+#endif
{
.procname = "bootloader_type",
.data = &bootloader_type,