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Re: [PATCHv2 02/14] fork: allow arch-override of VMAP stack alignment

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Mark Rutland Aug. 15, 2017, 4:30 p.m. UTC
On Tue, Aug 15, 2017 at 09:09:36AM -0700, Andy Lutomirski wrote:
> On Tue, Aug 15, 2017 at 5:50 AM, Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@arm.com> wrote:
> > In some cases, an architecture might wish its stacks to be aligned to a
> > boundary larger than THREAD_SIZE. For example, using an alignment of
> > double THREAD_SIZE can allow for stack overflows smaller than
> > THREAD_SIZE to be detected by checking a single bit of the stack
> > pointer.
> >
> > This patch allows architectures to override the alignment of VMAP'd
> > stacks, by defining THREAD_ALIGN. Where not defined, this defaults to
> > THREAD_SIZE, as is the case today.
> 
> This looks okay, but it might make sense to move that to a header file
> so THREAD_ALIGN is always available.

I was a little worried about breaking things, since arches don't define
THREAD_SIZE in a consistent location.

Looking again, it looks like those are all transitiviely included into
each arch's <asm/thread_info.h>, so I think I can move this into
<linux/thread_info.h>, which'll have to be added to kernel.fork.c's
includes.

Are you happy with the below fixup?

Thanks,
Mark.

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Andy Lutomirski Aug. 15, 2017, 4:33 p.m. UTC | #1
On Tue, Aug 15, 2017 at 9:30 AM, Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@arm.com> wrote:
> On Tue, Aug 15, 2017 at 09:09:36AM -0700, Andy Lutomirski wrote:
>> On Tue, Aug 15, 2017 at 5:50 AM, Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@arm.com> wrote:
>> > In some cases, an architecture might wish its stacks to be aligned to a
>> > boundary larger than THREAD_SIZE. For example, using an alignment of
>> > double THREAD_SIZE can allow for stack overflows smaller than
>> > THREAD_SIZE to be detected by checking a single bit of the stack
>> > pointer.
>> >
>> > This patch allows architectures to override the alignment of VMAP'd
>> > stacks, by defining THREAD_ALIGN. Where not defined, this defaults to
>> > THREAD_SIZE, as is the case today.
>>
>> This looks okay, but it might make sense to move that to a header file
>> so THREAD_ALIGN is always available.
>
> I was a little worried about breaking things, since arches don't define
> THREAD_SIZE in a consistent location.
>
> Looking again, it looks like those are all transitiviely included into
> each arch's <asm/thread_info.h>, so I think I can move this into
> <linux/thread_info.h>, which'll have to be added to kernel.fork.c's
> includes.
>
> Are you happy with the below fixup?

LGTM.

>
> Thanks,
> Mark.
>
> ---->8----
> diff --git a/include/linux/thread_info.h b/include/linux/thread_info.h
> index 250a276..905d769 100644
> --- a/include/linux/thread_info.h
> +++ b/include/linux/thread_info.h
> @@ -38,6 +38,10 @@ enum {
>
>  #ifdef __KERNEL__
>
> +#ifndef THREAD_ALIGN
> +#define THREAD_ALIGN   THREAD_SIZE
> +#endif
> +
>  #ifdef CONFIG_DEBUG_STACK_USAGE
>  # define THREADINFO_GFP                (GFP_KERNEL_ACCOUNT | __GFP_NOTRACK | \
>                                  __GFP_ZERO)
> diff --git a/kernel/fork.c b/kernel/fork.c
> index 696d692..f12882a 100644
> --- a/kernel/fork.c
> +++ b/kernel/fork.c
> @@ -88,6 +88,7 @@
>  #include <linux/sysctl.h>
>  #include <linux/kcov.h>
>  #include <linux/livepatch.h>
> +#include <linux/thread_info.h>
>
>  #include <asm/pgtable.h>
>  #include <asm/pgalloc.h>
> @@ -217,9 +218,6 @@ static unsigned long *alloc_thread_stack_node(struct task_struct *tsk, int node)
>                 return s->addr;
>         }
>
> -#ifndef THREAD_ALIGN
> -#define THREAD_ALIGN   THREAD_SIZE
> -#endif
>         stack = __vmalloc_node_range(THREAD_SIZE, THREAD_ALIGN,
>                                      VMALLOC_START, VMALLOC_END,
>                                      THREADINFO_GFP,
>
Mark Rutland Aug. 15, 2017, 4:39 p.m. UTC | #2
On Tue, Aug 15, 2017 at 09:33:18AM -0700, Andy Lutomirski wrote:
> On Tue, Aug 15, 2017 at 9:30 AM, Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@arm.com> wrote:
> > On Tue, Aug 15, 2017 at 09:09:36AM -0700, Andy Lutomirski wrote:

> >> This looks okay, but it might make sense to move that to a header file
> >> so THREAD_ALIGN is always available.
> >
> > I was a little worried about breaking things, since arches don't define
> > THREAD_SIZE in a consistent location.
> >
> > Looking again, it looks like those are all transitiviely included into
> > each arch's <asm/thread_info.h>, so I think I can move this into
> > <linux/thread_info.h>, which'll have to be added to kernel.fork.c's
> > includes.
> >
> > Are you happy with the below fixup?
> 
> LGTM.

Cool. I've folded that in and pushed the updated branch.

Thanks,
Mark.
Catalin Marinas Aug. 15, 2017, 5:02 p.m. UTC | #3
On Tue, Aug 15, 2017 at 05:39:55PM +0100, Mark Rutland wrote:
> On Tue, Aug 15, 2017 at 09:33:18AM -0700, Andy Lutomirski wrote:
> > On Tue, Aug 15, 2017 at 9:30 AM, Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@arm.com> wrote:
> > > On Tue, Aug 15, 2017 at 09:09:36AM -0700, Andy Lutomirski wrote:
> 
> > >> This looks okay, but it might make sense to move that to a header file
> > >> so THREAD_ALIGN is always available.
> > >
> > > I was a little worried about breaking things, since arches don't define
> > > THREAD_SIZE in a consistent location.
> > >
> > > Looking again, it looks like those are all transitiviely included into
> > > each arch's <asm/thread_info.h>, so I think I can move this into
> > > <linux/thread_info.h>, which'll have to be added to kernel.fork.c's
> > > includes.
> > >
> > > Are you happy with the below fixup?
> > 
> > LGTM.
> 
> Cool. I've folded that in and pushed the updated branch.

I pulled the branch for 4.14. Thanks.
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diff --git a/include/linux/thread_info.h b/include/linux/thread_info.h
index 250a276..905d769 100644
--- a/include/linux/thread_info.h
+++ b/include/linux/thread_info.h
@@ -38,6 +38,10 @@  enum {
 
 #ifdef __KERNEL__
 
+#ifndef THREAD_ALIGN
+#define THREAD_ALIGN   THREAD_SIZE
+#endif
+
 #ifdef CONFIG_DEBUG_STACK_USAGE
 # define THREADINFO_GFP                (GFP_KERNEL_ACCOUNT | __GFP_NOTRACK | \
                                 __GFP_ZERO)
diff --git a/kernel/fork.c b/kernel/fork.c
index 696d692..f12882a 100644
--- a/kernel/fork.c
+++ b/kernel/fork.c
@@ -88,6 +88,7 @@ 
 #include <linux/sysctl.h>
 #include <linux/kcov.h>
 #include <linux/livepatch.h>
+#include <linux/thread_info.h>
 
 #include <asm/pgtable.h>
 #include <asm/pgalloc.h>
@@ -217,9 +218,6 @@  static unsigned long *alloc_thread_stack_node(struct task_struct *tsk, int node)
                return s->addr;
        }
 
-#ifndef THREAD_ALIGN
-#define THREAD_ALIGN   THREAD_SIZE
-#endif
        stack = __vmalloc_node_range(THREAD_SIZE, THREAD_ALIGN,
                                     VMALLOC_START, VMALLOC_END,
                                     THREADINFO_GFP,