stackprotector: use canary at end of stack to indicate overruns at oops time
(Updated with a common max-stack-used checker that knows about
the canary, as suggested by Joe Perches)
Use a canary at the end of the stack to clearly indicate
at oops time whether the stack has ever overflowed.
This is a very simple implementation with a couple of
drawbacks:
1) a thread may legitimately use exactly up to the last
word on the stack
-- but the chances of doing this and then oopsing later seem slim
2) it's possible that the stack usage isn't dense enough
that the canary location could get skipped over
-- but the worst that happens is that we don't flag the overrun
-- though this happens fairly often in my testing :(
With the code in place, an intentionally-bloated stack oops might
do:
BUG: unable to handle kernel paging request at ffff8103f84cc680
IP: [<ffffffff810253df>] update_curr+0x9a/0xa8
PGD 8063 PUD 0
Thread overran stack or stack corrupted
Oops: 0000 [1] SMP
CPU 0
...
... unless the stack overrun is so bad that it corrupts some other
thread.
Signed-off-by: Eric Sandeen <sandeen@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
diff --git a/kernel/exit.c b/kernel/exit.c
index 8f6185e..fb8de6c 100644
--- a/kernel/exit.c
+++ b/kernel/exit.c
@@ -899,12 +899,9 @@
{
static DEFINE_SPINLOCK(low_water_lock);
static int lowest_to_date = THREAD_SIZE;
- unsigned long *n = end_of_stack(current);
unsigned long free;
- while (*n == 0)
- n++;
- free = (unsigned long)n - (unsigned long)end_of_stack(current);
+ free = stack_not_used(current);
if (free >= lowest_to_date)
return;
diff --git a/kernel/fork.c b/kernel/fork.c
index 19908b2..d428336 100644
--- a/kernel/fork.c
+++ b/kernel/fork.c
@@ -54,6 +54,7 @@
#include <linux/tty.h>
#include <linux/proc_fs.h>
#include <linux/blkdev.h>
+#include <linux/magic.h>
#include <asm/pgtable.h>
#include <asm/pgalloc.h>
@@ -186,6 +187,8 @@
{
struct task_struct *tsk;
struct thread_info *ti;
+ unsigned long *stackend;
+
int err;
prepare_to_copy(orig);
@@ -211,6 +214,8 @@
goto out;
setup_thread_stack(tsk, orig);
+ stackend = end_of_stack(tsk);
+ *stackend = STACK_END_MAGIC; /* for overflow detection */
#ifdef CONFIG_CC_STACKPROTECTOR
tsk->stack_canary = get_random_int();
diff --git a/kernel/sched.c b/kernel/sched.c
index cfa222a..a964ed9 100644
--- a/kernel/sched.c
+++ b/kernel/sched.c
@@ -5748,12 +5748,7 @@
printk(KERN_CONT " %016lx ", thread_saved_pc(p));
#endif
#ifdef CONFIG_DEBUG_STACK_USAGE
- {
- unsigned long *n = end_of_stack(p);
- while (!*n)
- n++;
- free = (unsigned long)n - (unsigned long)end_of_stack(p);
- }
+ free = stack_not_used(p);
#endif
printk(KERN_CONT "%5lu %5d %6d\n", free,
task_pid_nr(p), task_pid_nr(p->real_parent));
