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From: Aaron Tomlin <atomlin@redhat.com>
To: Chuck Ebbert <cebbert.lkml@gmail.com>
Cc: peterz@infradead.org, mingo@redhat.com, dzickus@redhat.com,
	bmr@redhat.com, jcastillo@redhat.com, oleg@redhat.com,
	pzijlstr@redhat.com, riel@redhat.com, prarit@redhat.com,
	jgh@redhat.com, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, tglx@linutronix.de,
	x86@kernel.org, rostedt@goodmis.org, hannes@cmpxchg.org,
	aneesh.kumar@linux.vnet.ibm.com, akpm@linux-foundation.org,
	akpm@google.com, linuxppc-dev@lists.ozlabs.org,
	minchan@kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 1/3] init/main.c: Give init_task a canary
Date: Wed, 10 Sep 2014 14:29:33 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20140910132933.GG1436@atomlin.usersys.redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20140910022654.29abc9f3@as>

On Wed, Sep 10, 2014 at 02:26:54AM -0500, Chuck Ebbert wrote:
> On Tue,  9 Sep 2014 10:42:27 +0100
> Aaron Tomlin <atomlin@redhat.com> wrote:
> 
> > +void task_stack_end_magic(struct task_struct *tsk)
> > +{
> > +	unsigned long *stackend;
> > +
> > +	stackend = end_of_stack(tsk);
> > +	*stackend = STACK_END_MAGIC;	/* for overflow detection */
> > +}
> > +
> 
> For clarity this should probably be called set_task_stack_end_magic().

Agreed.

> And has this been tested on parisc and metag, which use STACK_GROWSUP ?
> I can't see how end_of_stack() as it's defined now could work on those archs.

AFAIU, dup_task_struct() has always done this explicitly.
I see no reason why init_task requires special attention.

-- 
Aaron Tomlin

  reply	other threads:[~2014-09-10 13:32 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 37+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2014-09-04 14:50 [PATCH 0/2] sched: Always check the integrity of the canary Aaron Tomlin
2014-09-04 14:50 ` [PATCH 1/2] sched: Add helper for task stack page overrun checking Aaron Tomlin
2014-09-04 15:02   ` Oleg Nesterov
2014-09-04 15:52     ` Aaron Tomlin
2014-09-04 15:30   ` Peter Zijlstra
2014-09-04 14:50 ` [PATCH 2/2] sched: BUG when stack end location is over written Aaron Tomlin
2014-09-04 15:32   ` Peter Zijlstra
2014-09-04 16:11     ` Aaron Tomlin
2014-09-08 19:23       ` [PATCH v2 0/3] sched: Always check the integrity of the canary Aaron Tomlin
2014-09-08 19:23         ` [PATCH 1/3] init/main.c: Give init_task a canary Aaron Tomlin
2014-09-08 19:23         ` [PATCH 2/3] sched: Add helper for task stack page overrun checking Aaron Tomlin
2014-09-08 19:23         ` [PATCH 3/3] sched: BUG when stack end location is over written Aaron Tomlin
2014-09-09  9:42       ` [PATCH v2 0/3] sched: Always check the integrity of the canary Aaron Tomlin
2014-09-09  9:42         ` [PATCH v2 1/3] init/main.c: Give init_task a canary Aaron Tomlin
2014-09-10  7:26           ` Chuck Ebbert
2014-09-10 13:29             ` Aaron Tomlin [this message]
2014-09-11 12:23               ` Chuck Ebbert
2014-09-11 14:47                 ` Aaron Tomlin
2014-09-09  9:42         ` [PATCH v2 2/3] sched: Add helper for task stack page overrun checking Aaron Tomlin
2014-09-09  9:42         ` [PATCH v2 3/3] sched: BUG when stack end location is over written Aaron Tomlin
2014-09-11 15:41         ` [PATCH v3 0/3] sched: Always check the integrity of the canary Aaron Tomlin
2014-09-11 15:41           ` [PATCH v3 1/3] init/main.c: Give init_task a canary Aaron Tomlin
2014-09-12  7:28             ` Michael Ellerman
2014-09-11 15:41           ` [PATCH v3 2/3] sched: Add helper for task stack page overrun checking Aaron Tomlin
2014-09-11 15:41           ` [PATCH v3 3/3] sched: BUG when stack end location is over written Aaron Tomlin
2014-09-12  4:06             ` Michael Ellerman
2014-09-12  9:44               ` Aaron Tomlin
2014-09-12 10:58                 ` Mike Galbraith
2014-09-15  2:39                   ` Michael Ellerman
2014-09-12  6:04             ` Michael Ellerman
2014-09-12  9:50               ` Aaron Tomlin
2014-09-11 15:53           ` [PATCH v3 0/3] sched: Always check the integrity of the canary Peter Zijlstra
2014-09-11 15:59             ` Aaron Tomlin
2014-09-11 16:02           ` David Laight
2014-09-11 17:26             ` Chuck Ebbert
2014-09-12  8:43               ` David Laight
2014-09-11 17:44             ` Aaron Tomlin

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