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| author | Andy Lutomirski <luto@kernel.org> | 2016-08-11 02:35:21 -0700 |
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| committer | Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org> | 2016-08-24 12:11:41 +0200 |
| commit | ba14a194a434ccc8f733e263ad2ce941e35e5787 (patch) | |
| tree | f4d353dea3ae496447785e4c447ef6e9a4c24e42 /arch/Kconfig | |
| parent | eb4e841099f813c2df5fbb00ae4a9d315cb7c9dc (diff) | |
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>
Diffstat (limited to 'arch/Kconfig')
| -rw-r--r-- | arch/Kconfig | 34 |
1 files changed, 34 insertions, 0 deletions
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" |