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author | Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> | 2021-10-21 15:55:05 -0700 |
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committer | Borislav Petkov <bp@suse.de> | 2021-10-26 10:15:12 +0200 |
commit | 1bdda24c4af64cd2d65dec5192ab624c5fee7ca0 (patch) | |
tree | 9e96250b0947c570a206842a035ad9f79ad0e45e /arch/Kconfig | |
parent | 582b01b6ab2714a0a4d554cea7f0d4efeaa2154d (diff) | |
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signal: Add an optional check for altstack size
New x86 FPU features will be very large, requiring ~10k of stack in
signal handlers. These new features require a new approach called
"dynamic features".
The kernel currently tries to ensure that altstacks are reasonably
sized. Right now, on x86, sys_sigaltstack() requires a size of >=2k.
However, that 2k is a constant. Simply raising that 2k requirement
to >10k for the new features would break existing apps which have a
compiled-in size of 2k.
Instead of universally enforcing a larger stack, prohibit a process from
using dynamic features without properly-sized altstacks. This must be
enforced in two places:
* A dynamic feature can not be enabled without an large-enough altstack
for each process thread.
* Once a dynamic feature is enabled, any request to install a too-small
altstack will be rejected
The dynamic feature enabling code must examine each thread in a
process to ensure that the altstacks are large enough. Add a new lock
(sigaltstack_lock()) to ensure that threads can not race and change
their altstack after being examined.
Add the infrastructure in form of a config option and provide empty
stubs for architectures which do not need dynamic altstack size checks.
This implementation will be fleshed out for x86 in a future patch called
x86/arch_prctl: Add controls for dynamic XSTATE components
[dhansen: commit message. ]
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Signed-off-by: Chang S. Bae <chang.seok.bae@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Borislav Petkov <bp@suse.de>
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20211021225527.10184-2-chang.seok.bae@intel.com
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diff --git a/arch/Kconfig b/arch/Kconfig index 8df1c7102643..af5cf3009b4f 100644 --- a/arch/Kconfig +++ b/arch/Kconfig @@ -1288,6 +1288,9 @@ config ARCH_HAS_ELFCORE_COMPAT config ARCH_HAS_PARANOID_L1D_FLUSH bool +config DYNAMIC_SIGFRAME + bool + source "kernel/gcov/Kconfig" source "scripts/gcc-plugins/Kconfig" |