From 7c9f8861e6c9c839f913e49b98c3854daca18f27 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Eric Sandeen Date: Tue, 22 Apr 2008 16:38:23 -0500 Subject: stackprotector: use canary at end of stack to indicate overruns at oops time (Updated with a common max-stack-used checker that knows about the canary, as suggested by Joe Perches) Use a canary at the end of the stack to clearly indicate at oops time whether the stack has ever overflowed. This is a very simple implementation with a couple of drawbacks: 1) a thread may legitimately use exactly up to the last word on the stack -- but the chances of doing this and then oopsing later seem slim 2) it's possible that the stack usage isn't dense enough that the canary location could get skipped over -- but the worst that happens is that we don't flag the overrun -- though this happens fairly often in my testing :( With the code in place, an intentionally-bloated stack oops might do: BUG: unable to handle kernel paging request at ffff8103f84cc680 IP: [] update_curr+0x9a/0xa8 PGD 8063 PUD 0 Thread overran stack or stack corrupted Oops: 0000 [1] SMP CPU 0 ... ... unless the stack overrun is so bad that it corrupts some other thread. Signed-off-by: Eric Sandeen Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner --- kernel/fork.c | 5 +++++ 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+) (limited to 'kernel/fork.c') diff --git a/kernel/fork.c b/kernel/fork.c index 19908b26cf8..d428336e7aa 100644 --- a/kernel/fork.c +++ b/kernel/fork.c @@ -54,6 +54,7 @@ #include #include #include +#include #include #include @@ -186,6 +187,8 @@ static struct task_struct *dup_task_struct(struct task_struct *orig) { struct task_struct *tsk; struct thread_info *ti; + unsigned long *stackend; + int err; prepare_to_copy(orig); @@ -211,6 +214,8 @@ static struct task_struct *dup_task_struct(struct task_struct *orig) goto out; setup_thread_stack(tsk, orig); + stackend = end_of_stack(tsk); + *stackend = STACK_END_MAGIC; /* for overflow detection */ #ifdef CONFIG_CC_STACKPROTECTOR tsk->stack_canary = get_random_int(); -- cgit v1.2.3