@@ -22,6 +22,19 @@
#define THREAD_SIZE (1 << THREAD_SHIFT)
+/*
+ * By aligning VMAP'd stacks to 2 * THREAD_SIZE, we can detect overflow by
+ * checking sp & (1 << THREAD_SHIFT), which we can do cheaply in the entry
+ * assembly.
+ */
+#ifdef CONFIG_VMAP_STACK
+#define THREAD_ALIGN_SHIFT (THREAD_SHIFT + 1)
+#else
+#define THREAD_ALIGN_SHIFT THREAD_SHIFT
+#endif
+
+#define THREAD_ALIGN (1 << THREAD_ALIGN_SHIFT)
+
#ifndef __ASSEMBLY__
#include <linux/cache.h>
#include <asm/processor.h>
@@ -137,7 +137,7 @@ arch_initcall(ppc_init);
static void *__init alloc_stack(void)
{
- void *ptr = memblock_alloc(THREAD_SIZE, THREAD_SIZE);
+ void *ptr = memblock_alloc(THREAD_SIZE, THREAD_ALIGN);
if (!ptr)
panic("cannot allocate %d bytes for stack at %pS\n",
@@ -644,7 +644,7 @@ static void *__init alloc_stack(unsigned long limit, int cpu)
BUILD_BUG_ON(STACK_INT_FRAME_SIZE % 16);
- ptr = memblock_alloc_try_nid(THREAD_SIZE, THREAD_SIZE,
+ ptr = memblock_alloc_try_nid(THREAD_SIZE, THREAD_ALIGN,
MEMBLOCK_LOW_LIMIT, limit,
early_cpu_to_node(cpu));
if (!ptr)
@@ -346,7 +346,7 @@ SECTIONS
#endif
/* The initial task and kernel stack */
- INIT_TASK_DATA_SECTION(THREAD_SIZE)
+ INIT_TASK_DATA_SECTION(THREAD_ALIGN)
.data..page_aligned : AT(ADDR(.data..page_aligned) - LOAD_OFFSET) {
PAGE_ALIGNED_DATA(PAGE_SIZE)
In order to ease stack overflow detection, align stack to 2 * THREAD_SIZE when using VMAP_STACK. This allows overflow detection using a single bit check. Signed-off-by: Christophe Leroy <christophe.leroy@c-s.fr> --- arch/powerpc/include/asm/thread_info.h | 13 +++++++++++++ arch/powerpc/kernel/setup_32.c | 2 +- arch/powerpc/kernel/setup_64.c | 2 +- arch/powerpc/kernel/vmlinux.lds.S | 2 +- 4 files changed, 16 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)