[PATCH 1/1] sched/headers: fix thread_info.<first> is overwritten by STACK_END_MAGIC

From: Wang Dongsheng
Date: Fri Nov 23 2018 - 02:56:09 EST


When select ARCH_TASK_STRUCT_ON_STACK the first of thread_info variable
is overwritten by STACK_END_MAGIC. In fact, the ARCH_TASK_STRUCT_ON_STACK
is not a real task on stack, it's only init_task on init_stack.

Commit 0500871f21b2 ("Construct init thread stack in the linker script
rather than by union") added this macro and put task_strcut into
thread_union. This brings us the following possibilities:
TASK_ON_STACK THREAD_INFO_IN_TASK STACK
----- <-- thread_info & stack
N N | | --- <-- task
| | | |
----- ---

----- <-- stack
N Y | | --- <-- task(Including thread_info)
| | | |
----- ---

----- <-- stack & task & thread_info
Y N | |
| |
-----

----- <-- stack & task(Including thread_info)
Y Y | |
| |
-----
The kernel has handled the first two cases correctly.

For the third case:
TASK_ON_STACK: Y. THREAD_INFO_IN_TASK: N. this case
should never happen, because the task and thread_info will overlap. So
when TASK_ON_STACK is selected, THREAD_INFO_IN_TASK must be selected too.

For the fourth case:
When task on stack, the end of stack should add a sizeof(task_struct) offset.

This patch handled with the third and fourth case.

Fixes: 0500871f21b2 ("Construct init thread stack in the linker ...")

Signed-off-by: Wang Dongsheng <dongsheng.wang@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Shunyong Yang <shunyong.yang@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
arch/Kconfig | 1 +
include/linux/sched/task_stack.h | 5 ++++-
2 files changed, 5 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/arch/Kconfig b/arch/Kconfig
index e1e540ffa979..0a2c73e73195 100644
--- a/arch/Kconfig
+++ b/arch/Kconfig
@@ -251,6 +251,7 @@ config ARCH_HAS_SET_MEMORY
# Select if arch init_task must go in the __init_task_data section
config ARCH_TASK_STRUCT_ON_STACK
bool
+ depends on THREAD_INFO_IN_TASK || IA64

# Select if arch has its private alloc_task_struct() function
config ARCH_TASK_STRUCT_ALLOCATOR
diff --git a/include/linux/sched/task_stack.h b/include/linux/sched/task_stack.h
index 6a841929073f..624c48defb9e 100644
--- a/include/linux/sched/task_stack.h
+++ b/include/linux/sched/task_stack.h
@@ -7,6 +7,7 @@
*/

#include <linux/sched.h>
+#include <linux/sched/task.h>
#include <linux/magic.h>

#ifdef CONFIG_THREAD_INFO_IN_TASK
@@ -25,7 +26,9 @@ static inline void *task_stack_page(const struct task_struct *task)

static inline unsigned long *end_of_stack(const struct task_struct *task)
{
- return task->stack;
+ if (!IS_ENABLED(CONFIG_ARCH_TASK_STRUCT_ON_STACK) || task != &init_task)
+ return task->stack;
+ return (unsigned long *)(task + 1);
}

#elif !defined(__HAVE_THREAD_FUNCTIONS)
--
2.19.1