From 55af77969fbd7a841838220ea2287432e0da8ae5 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Mitsuo Hayasaka Date: Tue, 29 Nov 2011 15:08:36 +0900 Subject: [PATCH] x86: Panic on detection of stack overflow Currently, messages are just output on the detection of stack overflow, which is not sufficient for systems that need a high reliability. This is because in general the overflow may corrupt data, and the additional corruption may occur due to reading them unless systems stop. This patch adds the sysctl parameter kernel.panic_on_stackoverflow and causes a panic when detecting the overflows of kernel, IRQ and exception stacks except user stack according to the parameter. It is disabled by default. Signed-off-by: Mitsuo Hayasaka Cc: yrl.pp-manager.tt@hitachi.com Cc: Randy Dunlap Cc: "H. Peter Anvin" Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20111129060836.11076.12323.stgit@ltc219.sdl.hitachi.co.jp Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar --- Documentation/sysctl/kernel.txt | 14 ++++++++++++++ arch/x86/kernel/irq_32.c | 2 ++ arch/x86/kernel/irq_64.c | 5 +++++ include/linux/kernel.h | 1 + kernel/sysctl.c | 9 +++++++++ 5 files changed, 31 insertions(+) diff --git a/Documentation/sysctl/kernel.txt b/Documentation/sysctl/kernel.txt index 1f2463671a1a..6d8cd8b2c30d 100644 --- a/Documentation/sysctl/kernel.txt +++ b/Documentation/sysctl/kernel.txt @@ -49,6 +49,7 @@ show up in /proc/sys/kernel: - panic - panic_on_oops - panic_on_unrecovered_nmi +- panic_on_stackoverflow - pid_max - powersave-nap [ PPC only ] - printk @@ -393,6 +394,19 @@ Controls the kernel's behaviour when an oops or BUG is encountered. ============================================================== +panic_on_stackoverflow: + +Controls the kernel's behavior when detecting the overflows of +kernel, IRQ and exception stacks except a user stack. +This file shows up if CONFIG_DEBUG_STACKOVERFLOW is enabled. + +0: try to continue operation. + +1: panic immediately. + +============================================================== + + pid_max: PID allocation wrap value. When the kernel's next PID value diff --git a/arch/x86/kernel/irq_32.c b/arch/x86/kernel/irq_32.c index 72090705a656..e16e99ebd7ad 100644 --- a/arch/x86/kernel/irq_32.c +++ b/arch/x86/kernel/irq_32.c @@ -43,6 +43,8 @@ static void print_stack_overflow(void) { printk(KERN_WARNING "low stack detected by irq handler\n"); dump_stack(); + if (sysctl_panic_on_stackoverflow) + panic("low stack detected by irq handler - check messages\n"); } #else diff --git a/arch/x86/kernel/irq_64.c b/arch/x86/kernel/irq_64.c index 928a7e909619..42552b0dce6a 100644 --- a/arch/x86/kernel/irq_64.c +++ b/arch/x86/kernel/irq_64.c @@ -26,6 +26,8 @@ EXPORT_PER_CPU_SYMBOL(irq_stat); DEFINE_PER_CPU(struct pt_regs *, irq_regs); EXPORT_PER_CPU_SYMBOL(irq_regs); +int sysctl_panic_on_stackoverflow; + /* * Probabilistic stack overflow check: * @@ -65,6 +67,9 @@ static inline void stack_overflow_check(struct pt_regs *regs) current->comm, curbase, regs->sp, irq_stack_top, irq_stack_bottom, estack_top, estack_bottom); + + if (sysctl_panic_on_stackoverflow) + panic("low stack detected by irq handler - check messages\n"); #endif } diff --git a/include/linux/kernel.h b/include/linux/kernel.h index e8b1597b5cf2..ff83683c0b9d 100644 --- a/include/linux/kernel.h +++ b/include/linux/kernel.h @@ -341,6 +341,7 @@ extern int panic_timeout; extern int panic_on_oops; extern int panic_on_unrecovered_nmi; extern int panic_on_io_nmi; +extern int sysctl_panic_on_stackoverflow; extern const char *print_tainted(void); extern void add_taint(unsigned flag); extern int test_taint(unsigned flag); diff --git a/kernel/sysctl.c b/kernel/sysctl.c index ae2719643854..f487f257e05e 100644 --- a/kernel/sysctl.c +++ b/kernel/sysctl.c @@ -803,6 +803,15 @@ static struct ctl_table kern_table[] = { .mode = 0644, .proc_handler = proc_dointvec, }, +#ifdef CONFIG_DEBUG_STACKOVERFLOW + { + .procname = "panic_on_stackoverflow", + .data = &sysctl_panic_on_stackoverflow, + .maxlen = sizeof(int), + .mode = 0644, + .proc_handler = proc_dointvec, + }, +#endif { .procname = "bootloader_type", .data = &bootloader_type,