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 --- include/linux/magic.h | 1 + include/linux/sched.h | 13 +++++++++++++ 2 files changed, 14 insertions(+) (limited to 'include/linux') diff --git a/include/linux/magic.h b/include/linux/magic.h index 1fa0c2ce4de..74e68e20116 100644 --- a/include/linux/magic.h +++ b/include/linux/magic.h @@ -42,4 +42,5 @@ #define FUTEXFS_SUPER_MAGIC 0xBAD1DEA #define INOTIFYFS_SUPER_MAGIC 0x2BAD1DEA +#define STACK_END_MAGIC 0x57AC6E9D #endif /* __LINUX_MAGIC_H__ */ diff --git a/include/linux/sched.h b/include/linux/sched.h index d6a51515878..c5181e77f30 100644 --- a/include/linux/sched.h +++ b/include/linux/sched.h @@ -1969,6 +1969,19 @@ static inline unsigned long *end_of_stack(struct task_struct *p) extern void thread_info_cache_init(void); +#ifdef CONFIG_DEBUG_STACK_USAGE +static inline unsigned long stack_not_used(struct task_struct *p) +{ + unsigned long *n = end_of_stack(p); + + do { /* Skip over canary */ + n++; + } while (!*n); + + return (unsigned long)n - (unsigned long)end_of_stack(p); +} +#endif + /* set thread flags in other task's structures * - see asm/thread_info.h for TIF_xxxx flags available */ -- cgit v1.2.3-70-g09d2