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author | Andy Lutomirski <luto@kernel.org> | 2016-09-15 22:45:43 -0700 |
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committer | Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org> | 2016-09-16 09:18:53 +0200 |
commit | c6c314a613cd7d03fb97713e0d642b493de42e69 (patch) | |
tree | 4091773558e10d6607f63c8cf33b3dc5253d836c | |
parent | ff0071c03684485495e06f3936399eb9c93141a6 (diff) |
sched/core: Add try_get_task_stack() and put_task_stack()
There are a few places in the kernel that access stack memory
belonging to a different task. Before we can start freeing task
stacks before the task_struct is freed, we need a way for those code
paths to pin the stack.
Signed-off-by: Andy Lutomirski <luto@kernel.org>
Cc: Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de>
Cc: Brian Gerst <brgerst@gmail.com>
Cc: Denys Vlasenko <dvlasenk@redhat.com>
Cc: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
Cc: Jann Horn <jann@thejh.net>
Cc: Josh Poimboeuf <jpoimboe@redhat.com>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/17a434f50ad3d77000104f21666575e10a9c1fbd.1474003868.git.luto@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
-rw-r--r-- | include/linux/sched.h | 16 | ||||
-rw-r--r-- | init/Kconfig | 3 |
2 files changed, 19 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/include/linux/sched.h b/include/linux/sched.h index a287e8b13549..a95867267e9f 100644 --- a/include/linux/sched.h +++ b/include/linux/sched.h @@ -3094,11 +3094,19 @@ static inline struct thread_info *task_thread_info(struct task_struct *task) { return &task->thread_info; } + +/* + * When accessing the stack of a non-current task that might exit, use + * try_get_task_stack() instead. task_stack_page will return a pointer + * that could get freed out from under you. + */ static inline void *task_stack_page(const struct task_struct *task) { return task->stack; } + #define setup_thread_stack(new,old) do { } while(0) + static inline unsigned long *end_of_stack(const struct task_struct *task) { return task->stack; @@ -3134,6 +3142,14 @@ static inline unsigned long *end_of_stack(struct task_struct *p) } #endif + +static inline void *try_get_task_stack(struct task_struct *tsk) +{ + return task_stack_page(tsk); +} + +static inline void put_task_stack(struct task_struct *tsk) {} + #define task_stack_end_corrupted(task) \ (*(end_of_stack(task)) != STACK_END_MAGIC) diff --git a/init/Kconfig b/init/Kconfig index ec8d43894b02..3b9a47fe843b 100644 --- a/init/Kconfig +++ b/init/Kconfig @@ -33,6 +33,9 @@ config THREAD_INFO_IN_TASK make this work, an arch will need to remove all thread_info fields except flags and fix any runtime bugs. + One subtle change that will be needed is to use try_get_task_stack() + and put_task_stack() in save_thread_stack_tsk() and get_wchan(). + menu "General setup" config BROKEN |