[PATCH] powerpc: Check end of stack canary at oops time

[Michael Ellerman]

On Wed, 2010-08-25 at 09:15 +1000, Anton Blanchard wrote:
> Add a check for the stack canary when we oops, similar to x86. This should make
> it clear that we overran our stack:
> 
> Unable to handle kernel paging request for data at address 0x24652f63700ac689
> Faulting instruction address: 0xc000000000063d24
> Thread overran stack, or stack corrupted
> 
> Signed-off-by: Anton Blanchard <anton at samba.org>
> ---
> 
> Index: powerpc.git/arch/powerpc/mm/fault.c
> ===================================================================
> --- powerpc.git.orig/arch/powerpc/mm/fault.c	2010-08-25 08:41:08.230086186 +1000
> +++ powerpc.git/arch/powerpc/mm/fault.c	2010-08-25 09:12:38.276553103 +1000
> @@ -30,6 +30,7 @@
>  #include <linux/kprobes.h>
>  #include <linux/kdebug.h>
>  #include <linux/perf_event.h>
> +#include <linux/magic.h>
>  
>  #include <asm/firmware.h>
>  #include <asm/page.h>
> @@ -385,6 +386,7 @@ do_sigbus:
>  void bad_page_fault(struct pt_regs *regs, unsigned long address, int sig)
>  {
>  	const struct exception_table_entry *entry;
> +	unsigned long *stackend;
>  
>  	/* Are we prepared to handle this fault?  */
>  	if ((entry = search_exception_tables(regs->nip)) != NULL) {
> @@ -413,5 +415,9 @@ void bad_page_fault(struct pt_regs *regs
>  	printk(KERN_ALERT "Faulting instruction address: 0x%08lx\n",
>  		regs->nip);
>  
> +	stackend = end_of_stack(current);
> +	if (current != &init_task && *stackend != STACK_END_MAGIC)
> +		printk(KERN_ALERT "Thread overran stack, or stack corrupted\n");

The check for init is just because we haven't set the magic value for
init's stack right? But we could.

cheers

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