Re: [PATCH v3 3/3] sched: BUG when stack end location is over written

From: Michael Ellerman
Date: Fri Sep 12 2014 - 00:07:09 EST


On Thu, 2014-09-11 at 16:41 +0100, Aaron Tomlin wrote:
> diff --git a/lib/Kconfig.debug b/lib/Kconfig.debug
> index a285900..2a8280a 100644
> --- a/lib/Kconfig.debug
> +++ b/lib/Kconfig.debug
> @@ -824,6 +824,18 @@ config SCHEDSTATS
> application, you can say N to avoid the very slight overhead
> this adds.
>
> +config SCHED_STACK_END_CHECK
> + bool "Detect stack corruption on calls to schedule()"
> + depends on DEBUG_KERNEL
> + default y

Did you really mean default y?

Doing so means it will be turned on more or less everywhere, which defeats the
purpose of having a config option in the first place.

> diff --git a/kernel/sched/core.c b/kernel/sched/core.c
> index ec1a286..0b70b73 100644
> --- a/kernel/sched/core.c
> +++ b/kernel/sched/core.c
> @@ -2660,6 +2660,9 @@ static noinline void __schedule_bug(struct task_struct *prev)
> */
> static inline void schedule_debug(struct task_struct *prev)
> {
> +#ifdef CONFIG_SCHED_STACK_END_CHECK
> + BUG_ON(unlikely(task_stack_end_corrupted(prev)))
> +#endif

If this was my code I'd make you put that in a static inline.

cheers



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