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

[Andy Lutomirski]

On Tue, Aug 15, 2017 at 5:50 AM, Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@xxxxxxx> 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.

>
> Signed-off-by: Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@xxxxxxx>
> Cc: Andy Lutomirski <luto@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Cc: Ard Biesheuvel <ard.biesheuvel@xxxxxxxxxx>
> Cc: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@xxxxxxx>
> Cc: James Morse <james.morse@xxxxxxx>
> Cc: Laura Abbott <labbott@xxxxxxxxxx>
> Cc: Will Deacon <will.deacon@xxxxxxx>
> Cc: linux-kernel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> ---
>  kernel/fork.c | 5 ++++-
>  1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
>
> diff --git a/kernel/fork.c b/kernel/fork.c
> index 17921b0..696d692 100644
> --- a/kernel/fork.c
> +++ b/kernel/fork.c
> @@ -217,7 +217,10 @@ static unsigned long *alloc_thread_stack_node(struct task_struct *tsk, int node)
>                 return s->addr;
>         }
>
> -       stack = __vmalloc_node_range(THREAD_SIZE, THREAD_SIZE,
> +#ifndef THREAD_ALIGN
> +#define THREAD_ALIGN   THREAD_SIZE
> +#endif
> +       stack = __vmalloc_node_range(THREAD_SIZE, THREAD_ALIGN,
>                                      VMALLOC_START, VMALLOC_END,
>                                      THREADINFO_GFP,
>                                      PAGE_KERNEL,
> --
> 1.9.1
>



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Andy Lutomirski
AMA Capital Management, LLC