From 0d9e26329b0c9263d4d9e0422d80a0e73268c52f Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Aaron Tomlin Date: Fri, 12 Sep 2014 14:16:19 +0100 Subject: 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 Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) 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 Cc: Al Viro Cc: Andi Kleen Cc: Andrew Morton Cc: Dan Streetman Cc: Davidlohr Bueso Cc: David S. Miller Cc: Kees Cook Cc: Linus Torvalds Cc: Lubomir Rintel Cc: Paul E. McKenney Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1410527779-8133-4-git-send-email-atomlin@redhat.com Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar --- lib/Kconfig.debug | 12 ++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 12 insertions(+) (limited to 'lib') diff --git a/lib/Kconfig.debug b/lib/Kconfig.debug index a2859008362..e58163d69db 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 -- cgit v1.2.3-70-g09d2