parisc: add kernel stack overflow check

Add the CONFIG_DEBUG_STACKOVERFLOW config option to enable checks to
detect kernel stack overflows.

Stack overflows can not be detected reliable since we do not want to
introduce too much overhead.

Instead, during irq processing in do_cpu_irq_mask() we check kernel
stack usage of the interrupted kernel process. Kernel threads can be
easily detected by checking the value of space register 7 (sr7) which
is zero when running inside the kernel.

Since THREAD_SIZE is 16k and PAGE_SIZE is 4k, reduce the alignment of
the init thread to the lower value (PAGE_SIZE) in the kernel
vmlinux.ld.S linker script.

Signed-off-by: Helge Deller <deller@gmx.de>

1 files changed, 29 insertions, 2 deletions

diff --git a/arch/parisc/kernel/irq.c b/arch/parisc/kernel/irq.c
index 8094d3ed3b64..61e51ac85659 100644
--- a/arch/parisc/kernel/irq.c
+++ b/arch/parisc/kernel/irq.c
@@ -330,6 +330,34 @@ static inline int eirr_to_irq(unsigned long eirr)
         return (BITS_PER_LONG - bit) + TIMER_IRQ;
 }
 
+int sysctl_panic_on_stackoverflow = 1;
+
+static inline void stack_overflow_check(struct pt_regs *regs)
+{
+#ifdef CONFIG_DEBUG_STACKOVERFLOW
+        #define STACK_MARGIN    (256*6)
+
+        /* Our stack starts directly behind the thread_info struct. */
+        unsigned long stack_start = (unsigned long) current_thread_info();
+        unsigned long sp = regs->gr[30];
+
+        /* if sr7 != 0, we interrupted a userspace process which we do not want
+         * to check for stack overflow. We will only check the kernel stack. */
+        if (regs->sr[7])
+                return;
+
+        if (likely((sp - stack_start) < (THREAD_SIZE - STACK_MARGIN)))
+                return;
+
+        pr_emerg("stackcheck: %s will most likely overflow kernel stack "
+                 "(sp:%lx, stk bottom-top:%lx-%lx)\n",
+                current->comm, sp, stack_start, stack_start + THREAD_SIZE);
+
+        if (sysctl_panic_on_stackoverflow)
+                panic("low stack detected by irq handler - check messages\n");
+#endif
+}
+
 /* ONLY called from entry.S:intr_extint() */
 void do_cpu_irq_mask(struct pt_regs *regs)
 {
@@ -364,6 +392,7 @@ void do_cpu_irq_mask(struct pt_regs *regs)
                 goto set_out;
         }
 #endif
+        stack_overflow_check(regs);
         generic_handle_irq(irq);
 
  out:
@@ -420,6 +449,4 @@ void __init init_IRQ(void)
         cpu_eiem = EIEM_MASK(TIMER_IRQ);
 #endif
         set_eiem(cpu_eiem);     /* EIEM : enable all external intr */
-
 }
-