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| author | Aaron Tomlin <atomlin@redhat.com> | 2014-09-12 14:16:19 +0100 |
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| committer | Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org> | 2014-09-19 12:35:24 +0200 |
| commit | 0d9e26329b0c9263d4d9e0422d80a0e73268c52f (patch) | |
| tree | ab0e520be3ecb71faa143c55a30cb9e8f48135e1 /lib/Kconfig.debug | |
| parent | a70857e46dd13e87ae06bf0e64cb6a2d4f436265 (diff) | |
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sched: Add default-disabled option to BUG() when stack end location is overwritten
Currently in the event of a stack overrun a call to schedule()
does not check for this type of corruption. This corruption is
often silent and can go unnoticed. However once the corrupted
region is examined at a later stage, the outcome is undefined
and often results in a sporadic page fault which cannot be
handled.
This patch checks for a stack overrun and takes appropriate
action since the damage is already done, there is no point
in continuing.
Signed-off-by: Aaron Tomlin <atomlin@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: aneesh.kumar@linux.vnet.ibm.com
Cc: dzickus@redhat.com
Cc: bmr@redhat.com
Cc: jcastillo@redhat.com
Cc: oleg@redhat.com
Cc: riel@redhat.com
Cc: prarit@redhat.com
Cc: jgh@redhat.com
Cc: minchan@kernel.org
Cc: mpe@ellerman.id.au
Cc: tglx@linutronix.de
Cc: rostedt@goodmis.org
Cc: hannes@cmpxchg.org
Cc: Alexei Starovoitov <ast@plumgrid.com>
Cc: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Cc: Andi Kleen <ak@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Dan Streetman <ddstreet@ieee.org>
Cc: Davidlohr Bueso <davidlohr@hp.com>
Cc: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Cc: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Lubomir Rintel <lkundrak@v3.sk>
Cc: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1410527779-8133-4-git-send-email-atomlin@redhat.com
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'lib/Kconfig.debug')
| -rw-r--r-- | lib/Kconfig.debug | 12 |
1 files changed, 12 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/lib/Kconfig.debug b/lib/Kconfig.debug index a28590083622..e58163d69db1 100644 --- a/lib/Kconfig.debug +++ b/lib/Kconfig.debug @@ -824,6 +824,18 @@ config SCHEDSTATS application, you can say N to avoid the very slight overhead this adds. +config SCHED_STACK_END_CHECK + bool "Detect stack corruption on calls to schedule()" + depends on DEBUG_KERNEL + default n + help + This option checks for a stack overrun on calls to schedule(). + If the stack end location is found to be over written always panic as + the content of the corrupted region can no longer be trusted. + This is to ensure no erroneous behaviour occurs which could result in + data corruption or a sporadic crash at a later stage once the region + is examined. The runtime overhead introduced is minimal. + config TIMER_STATS bool "Collect kernel timers statistics" depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && PROC_FS |