From 7c9f8861e6c9c839f913e49b98c3854daca18f27 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Eric Sandeen Date: Tue, 22 Apr 2008 16:38:23 -0500 Subject: 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: [] 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 Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner --- arch/x86/mm/fault.c | 7 +++++++ 1 file changed, 7 insertions(+) (limited to 'arch') 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 #include #include +#include #include #include @@ -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; -- cgit v1.2.3