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authorAndy Lutomirski <luto@kernel.org>2016-08-11 02:35:21 -0700
committerIngo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>2016-08-24 12:11:41 +0200
commitba14a194a434ccc8f733e263ad2ce941e35e5787 (patch)
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fork: Add generic vmalloced stack support
If CONFIG_VMAP_STACK=y is selected, kernel stacks are allocated with
__vmalloc_node_range().

Grsecurity has had a similar feature (called GRKERNSEC_KSTACKOVERFLOW=y)
for a long time.

Signed-off-by: Andy Lutomirski <luto@kernel.org>
Acked-by: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com>
Cc: Alexander Potapenko <glider@google.com>
Cc: Andrey Ryabinin <aryabinin@virtuozzo.com>
Cc: Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de>
Cc: Brian Gerst <brgerst@gmail.com>
Cc: Denys Vlasenko <dvlasenk@redhat.com>
Cc: Dmitry Vyukov <dvyukov@google.com>
Cc: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
Cc: Josh Poimboeuf <jpoimboe@redhat.com>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/14c07d4fd173a5b117f51e8b939f9f4323e39899.1470907718.git.luto@kernel.org
[ Minor edits. ]
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
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diff --git a/arch/Kconfig b/arch/Kconfig
index e9c9334507dd..9ecf9f6f9e15 100644
--- a/arch/Kconfig
+++ b/arch/Kconfig
@@ -707,4 +707,38 @@ config ARCH_NO_COHERENT_DMA_MMAP
 config CPU_NO_EFFICIENT_FFS
 	def_bool n
 
+config HAVE_ARCH_VMAP_STACK
+	def_bool n
+	help
+	  An arch should select this symbol if it can support kernel stacks
+	  in vmalloc space.  This means:
+
+	  - vmalloc space must be large enough to hold many kernel stacks.
+	    This may rule out many 32-bit architectures.
+
+	  - Stacks in vmalloc space need to work reliably.  For example, if
+	    vmap page tables are created on demand, either this mechanism
+	    needs to work while the stack points to a virtual address with
+	    unpopulated page tables or arch code (switch_to() and switch_mm(),
+	    most likely) needs to ensure that the stack's page table entries
+	    are populated before running on a possibly unpopulated stack.
+
+	  - If the stack overflows into a guard page, something reasonable
+	    should happen.  The definition of "reasonable" is flexible, but
+	    instantly rebooting without logging anything would be unfriendly.
+
+config VMAP_STACK
+	default y
+	bool "Use a virtually-mapped stack"
+	depends on HAVE_ARCH_VMAP_STACK && !KASAN
+	---help---
+	  Enable this if you want the use virtually-mapped kernel stacks
+	  with guard pages.  This causes kernel stack overflows to be
+	  caught immediately rather than causing difficult-to-diagnose
+	  corruption.
+
+	  This is presently incompatible with KASAN because KASAN expects
+	  the stack to map directly to the KASAN shadow map using a formula
+	  that is incorrect if the stack is in vmalloc space.
+
 source "kernel/gcov/Kconfig"