stackprotector: use canary at end of stack to indicate overruns at oops time

(Updated with a common max-stack-used checker that knows about
the canary, as suggested by Joe Perches)

Use a canary at the end of the stack to clearly indicate
at oops time whether the stack has ever overflowed.

This is a very simple implementation with a couple of
drawbacks:

1) a thread may legitimately use exactly up to the last
   word on the stack

 -- but the chances of doing this and then oopsing later seem slim

2) it's possible that the stack usage isn't dense enough
   that the canary location could get skipped over

 -- but the worst that happens is that we don't flag the overrun
 -- though this happens fairly often in my testing :(

With the code in place, an intentionally-bloated stack oops might
do:

BUG: unable to handle kernel paging request at ffff8103f84cc680
IP: [<ffffffff810253df>] update_curr+0x9a/0xa8
PGD 8063 PUD 0
Thread overran stack or stack corrupted
Oops: 0000 [1] SMP
CPU 0
...

... unless the stack overrun is so bad that it corrupts some other
thread.

Signed-off-by: Eric Sandeen <sandeen@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>

1 files changed, 1 insertions, 4 deletions

diff --git a/kernel/exit.c b/kernel/exit.c
index 8f6185e69b69..fb8de6cbf2c7 100644
--- a/kernel/exit.c
+++ b/kernel/exit.c
@@ -899,12 +899,9 @@ static void check_stack_usage(void)
 {
         static DEFINE_SPINLOCK(low_water_lock);
         static int lowest_to_date = THREAD_SIZE;
-        unsigned long *n = end_of_stack(current);
         unsigned long free;
 
-        while (*n == 0)
-                n++;
-        free = (unsigned long)n - (unsigned long)end_of_stack(current);
+        free = stack_not_used(current);
 
         if (free >= lowest_to_date)
                 return;