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authorJohannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>2020-12-05 21:50:18 +0100
committerRichard Weinberger <richard@nod.at>2020-12-13 22:38:06 +0100
commitef4459a6da0955b533ebfc97a7d756ac090f50c9 (patch)
tree5c1153080467c99b2f60942757f644d38338319b /arch/um/drivers/ubd_kern.c
parent963285b0b47a1b8e1dfa5481717855a7057ccec6 (diff)
um: allocate a guard page to helper threads
We've been running into stack overflows in helper threads corrupting memory (e.g. because somebody put printf() or os_info() there), so to avoid those causing hard-to-debug issues later on, allocate a guard page for helper thread stacks and mark it read-only. Unfortunately, the crash dump at that point is useless as the stack tracer will try to backtrace the *kernel* thread, not the helper thread, but at least we don't survive to a random issue caused by corruption. Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Richard Weinberger <richard@nod.at>
Diffstat (limited to 'arch/um/drivers/ubd_kern.c')
-rw-r--r--arch/um/drivers/ubd_kern.c2
1 files changed, 1 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/arch/um/drivers/ubd_kern.c b/arch/um/drivers/ubd_kern.c
index 7e07b321e847..13b1fe694b90 100644
--- a/arch/um/drivers/ubd_kern.c
+++ b/arch/um/drivers/ubd_kern.c
@@ -1241,7 +1241,7 @@ static int __init ubd_driver_init(void){
/* Letting ubd=sync be like using ubd#s= instead of ubd#= is
* enough. So use anyway the io thread. */
}
- stack = alloc_stack(0, 0);
+ stack = alloc_stack(0);
io_pid = start_io_thread(stack + PAGE_SIZE - sizeof(void *),
&thread_fd);
if(io_pid < 0){