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| author | Eric Sandeen <sandeen@sandeen.net> | 2008-04-22 16:38:23 -0500 |
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| committer | Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> | 2008-05-26 16:15:33 +0200 |
| commit | 7c9f8861e6c9c839f913e49b98c3854daca18f27 (patch) | |
| tree | 220b23dff1aa11a83546fbc73a319575ca489188 /arch | |
| parent | b40a4392a3c262e0d1b5379b4e142a8eefa63439 (diff) | |
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>
Diffstat (limited to 'arch')
| -rw-r--r-- | arch/x86/mm/fault.c | 7 |
1 files changed, 7 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/arch/x86/mm/fault.c b/arch/x86/mm/fault.c index fd7e1798c75a..1f524df68b96 100644 --- a/arch/x86/mm/fault.c +++ b/arch/x86/mm/fault.c @@ -25,6 +25,7 @@ #include <linux/kprobes.h> #include <linux/uaccess.h> #include <linux/kdebug.h> +#include <linux/magic.h> #include <asm/system.h> #include <asm/desc.h> @@ -581,6 +582,8 @@ void __kprobes do_page_fault(struct pt_regs *regs, unsigned long error_code) unsigned long address; int write, si_code; int fault; + unsigned long *stackend; + #ifdef CONFIG_X86_64 unsigned long flags; #endif @@ -850,6 +853,10 @@ no_context: show_fault_oops(regs, error_code, address); + stackend = end_of_stack(tsk); + if (*stackend != STACK_END_MAGIC) + printk(KERN_ALERT "Thread overran stack, or stack corrupted\n"); + tsk->thread.cr2 = address; tsk->thread.trap_no = 14; tsk->thread.error_code = error_code; |